Bubba and the Odessa Midland Feud Over Museum and Hospital
Bubba excites over the Odessa Midland feud as funding fights between West and Craddick surface. The dispute centers on a Midland Memorial Hospital wing and an Odessa Presidential Museum, with each side claiming broader loss totals and a need to bury the hatchet.
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Bubba Gravelhauler
Buddy
Buddy West
Odessa
Tom Craddick
Midland
Bubba
West Texas
West
Midland Memorial Hospital
Craddick
Grevenauier
Odessa gains first spine specialist in Basin Orthopedic
Dr Michael Ramsey opens Odessa practice as the community’s only spine expert performing advanced procedures. He reports busy days from dawn to night with an average five surgeries weekly including Odessa’s first spineCATH and spinal-screw operations. Ramsey came to Odessa after a San Antonio spine residency and cites local appeal and his wife’s influence as reasons to stay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Ramsey
Odessa
Ramsey
Basin Orthopedic
San Antonio
Odessa South Side staple Arthur Ray Anderson’s Forty Years of Food and Community
Arthur Ray Anderson has run his restaurant on Odessa’s south side for more than three decades, after his mother Essie Taylor built the cinderblock building in 1948. He recalls arriving in Odessa as a child during a family move from Texarkana, witnessing the area’s transformation from a desert to a bustling neighborhood, and sustaining a local hub for good food and good times.
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Rthur Ray Anderson
Odessa
Electric Street
Wabash Avenue
Arthur Ray
Anderson
Essie Taylor
Texarkana
Texas
Dallas
Highway 80
ECISD weighs district wide restructuring and full day kindergarten
ECISD board retreat outlines overcrowded elementary campuses and aging facilities with no funds to fix. Potential plan moves sixth graders to junior high and ninth graders to senior high, while expanding full day kindergarten where ten of 25 elementary schools already offer it. Superintendent Stokes cites study supporting longer kindergarten day for long term academic gains and improved reading and math outcomes.
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ECISD
Vernon Stokes
Stokes
Lesley Mandel Morrow
Dorothy Strickland
Deborah Gee Woo
ECISD trustees fear shortage of qualified superintendents
ECISD hired Bob Thompson for 14500 dollars to recruit a new school chief as national and local studies warn of a looming shortage. Thompson notes fewer applicants than 20 years ago while trustees worry about finding a strong candidate. Superintendent Vernon Stokes confirms the stress and politics of the job, with retirement planned in June and salaries in the six figures.
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Bob Thompson
Ector County Independent School District
Thompson
Ector County School Board
ECISD
U.S. News and World Report
National Association of Elementary School Principals
National Association of Secondary School Principals
Sylvester Kohut
Seton Hall University
School of Education
Tommy Salmon
Vernon Stokes
Stokes
Paula Adders
Permian Basin
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Ken Brodnax
Darwin Weigel
South Side
Arthur Ray Anderson
Arthur Ray's
Arthur Ray’s
Wabash Avenues
Dulcinea Cuellar Odessa
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