Political tempers flare as Odessa braces for season
Odessa column notes lawmakers and sheriff contest budget and the disbanded drug task force plan. Recounting Yearwood and Bryant clashes, DAs and commissioners spar over control and media portrayal. The piece pokes fun at Odessa political theater and warns of ongoing public feuding.
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Yearwood
Permian Basin
Odessa American
Bryant
Mike Patton
Jim Jordan
Tom Todd
Patton
Jordan
Odessa
Odessa Chuck Wagon Gang
Ukraine
Mauro attacks Bush over drug task force dissolved in May
In Odessa Mauro urged Gov Bush to admit staff error in dissolving the Permian Basin Drug Task Force in May. He pressed that Bush fired Nancy Hugon for a mistake, rallying about 40 volunteers at Richard Abalos's office during a Million Door Walk campaign stop in West Texas.
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Texas
Garry Mauro
George W. Bush
Permian Basin
Mauro
Austin
Richard Abalos
Odessa
Bush
Nancy Hugon
Hugon
Tom Finley
Ector County Grand Jury
Lubbock
Fort Stockton
Denver Broncos
Early Sunday birth saves infant on way to hospital
Jessica Greenough 19 gave birth to a baby boy three months early at home while en route to the hospital on Aug 9. She was alone as parents traveled, with Odessa Fire Department medics arriving to assist after an emergency call.
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Jessica Greenough
Greenough
Wal-Mart
Mark
Sandy Greenough
Las Vegas
Tyre Garrett
Levelland
Vickie Davis
Greenbough
Davis
Odessa
Rhonda Gray
Gray
Vickie
Lorenzo Rivas
Ector Marin
Rivas
Marin
Jessica
Richard Elkins
Charles Wingate
Medical Center Hospital
Online political campaigns surge in 98 Texas race
In the 1998 election year Texas campaigns embrace the Web as a low cost, fast way to reach voters. Governors, comptrollers and legislators publish biographies, position papers and ads online. Candidates say web outreach targets wired viewers and complements TV ads, with fax and email also fueling rapid response. Jonathan Coopersmith of Texas A&M notes growing access and the shift toward digital campaigning.
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Austin
John
Rick
Garry
George W
Texas
Jonathan Coopersmith
Texas A&m University
Coopersmith
Congress
John Sharp
Kelly Fero
George W. Bush
Mark McKinnon
Bush
Paul Hobby
Hobby
Margaret Justus
Ann Richards
A&M’s
Joneses
Texas drought hits farmers and residents hard statewide
Texas faces nearly 2 billion dollars in direct farm losses and a five billion dollar hit to the state economy as a federal disaster area designation unlocks low interest loans. President Clinton released 18.3 million in new emergency aid for low income residents amid at least 131 summer deaths. Brazoria County reports 6.4 million in crop losses while hay production drops 51 percent to 5.3 million tons. Rice, hay and cotton yields are below expectations with rice projected at 5,600 per acre and conditions described as among the worst in 20 years.
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Dallas
Texas
Clinton
Deat
Brazoria County
Campbell
Rick Perry
Texas University Agronomist
Gordon Sharp
Missouri
Terrell
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Ector County
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Campbell Asien
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