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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 2004
Page
1
Odessa entrepreneur John Bushman chairman and chief executive of ICA Properties plans to acquire a Holiday Inn asset he deems vital to the community. He previously redeveloped Permian Mall into Music City Mall and also owns KOSA TV and the Radisson Hotel now the MCM Elegante. The announcement follows his Tuesday target.
Midland businessman Bushman near completion of buying the Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites at 6201 E Highway 80 from Felcor. Felcor has sold the Holiday Express to Tika Cheema. Bushman plans to rename, refurbish 209 rooms and 36 suites, and relaunch as an Odessa convention center within six to nine months.
U S warplanes and artillery hit Sunni insurgents in Fallujah after 64 gunmen were killed near Najaf. A U S soldier died in Baghdad raising April deaths to 115, with up to 1,200 Iraqis reported killed that month as fighting continued despite a fragile cease fire.
Griselda Maximo Guzman stirs a lead glaze called greta used on clay pots in Santa Fe de la Laguna. The glaze poses risks of miscarriage and brain damage, yet is a family tradition passed down through Griselda, her mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, highlighting a dangerous, inherited craft.
After a four year decline, illegal immigration apprehensions rose 25 percent in the last six months versus the year before. U.S. border patrol reports the increase along the Mexico border.
In SASABE Mexico amid a shift in policy, thousands of migrants rush the border daily seeking work visas. U.S. border patrol reports a 25 percent rise in detentions to 535,000 in the six months through March. Near Sasabe about 2,000 migrants arrive daily and a recent scene showed 300 crossing in 30 minutes with smugglers. Raudel Sanchez, 22, aims to return to a Minnesota ranch job.
A Texas House committee unveiled a broad public education funding plan Tue. It raises the sales tax to 6.50 from 6.25, adds a 1 percent payroll tax on businesses, and eliminates the franchise tax. It also boosts cigarette tax and tracks wagering, expands the sales tax to services, ends some exemptions, and shifts property taxes to a statewide levy with local options. Local leaders note limited traction in governor’s plan and seek alternatives.
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