Year 2008 ends with turmoil and hope for 2009
Our view recalls 2008’s disasters from China’s quake to Ike and Mumbai, plus the housing crash and Blagojevich saga. Yet Obama’s election and Phelps’ eight golds offered relief. Times Square’s Good Riddance Day embodied a move forward as readers seek a calmer new year.
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China
Ike
Texas
Russia-Georgia
Mumbai
Illinois
Rod Blagojevich
Barack Obama
Senate
Obama
Michael Phelps
Linda Grist Cunningham
Rockford
Ill
Register Star
Associated Press
U.S
America
Lawmakers and Officials Contact Details Listed
A compilation of contact information for federal and state legislators. It lists U S representatives Mike Conaway Randy Neugebauer and senators John Cornyn Kay Hutchison, plus Texas state figures Tryon Lewis and Tom Craddick with office addresses phone numbers and emails.
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Mike Conaway
Midland
Cannon House
Washington, D.C
W. Eighth St
Odessa
U.S
Randy Neugebauer
Lubbock
Randy
House
John Cornyn
Hart Senate
Cornyn
Senate
Sen
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Russell Senate
Washington
D.C
Hutchison
Tryon Lewis
Austin
Tryon.lewis
State
Tom Craddick
P.O
Freedom and Faith Motivate American Odessa Editorial Note
A 1988 Pulitzer Prize mention frames the American Odessa publication as dedicated to informing readers to promote freedom. Publisher Patrick Canty and editor Laura Dennis or El Ken Brodnax Cultural Page Editor stress peace, self-control, and moral guides aligning with the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence.
Outliers and the race to extraordinary success
A book review of Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers The Story of Success examining how birth timing social background and access to elite networks create lasting advantages. It highlights hockey players in Canada and the Czech Republic KIPP schools and broader implications for education policy and culture.
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Los Angeles
Malcolm Gladwell
Pennsylvania
China
Manhattan
Lower East Side
KIPP
Time for a new day for juvenile justice
In a guest column Marc A. Levin argues Sunset Advisory Commission proposals to merge the Texas Youth Commission and Texas Juvenile Probation Commission into a Texas Juvenile Justice Department could cut costs. He promotes a pilot shifting funding to county probation, local facilities, and day reporting centers to reduce commitments to state lockups, citing RECLAIM and REDEPLOY models from Ohio and Illinois as qualifying examples. He notes potential savings from closing small TYC facilities and urges performance data to drive competition among providers. Levin is with the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
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Marc A. Levin
Sunset Advisory Commission
Texas Youth Commission
TYC
Texas Juvenile Probation Commission
TJPC
Sunset
Texas Juvenile Justice Department
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Ohio
Illinois
Reclaim
Texas
Sunset Commission
Levin
Center For Effective Justice
Texas Public Policy Foundation
Austin
Thumbs Up Call for New Year Comments
Readers are invited to share both positive and negative comments on current topics starting the new year. Send ideas via email to freedom.com and indicate a thumbs nomination.
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Freedom.com
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