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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 2005
Page
1
Odessa and the Permian Basin posted rising sales tax returns as the state comptroller’s Friday check shows Odessa receiving 1,123,640, up 11.3 percent from January 2004. Finance director James Zentner called it not a bad month while totals split 898,912 to the city and 224,728 to the Odessa Development Corporation.
A regional tax revenue comparison shows January 2005 totals for Alpine Andrews Big Spring Crane Goldsmith Kermit Marfa and McCamey. Alpine down 6.7 percent Andrews up 16.1 percent Big Spring up 5.2 percent Crane up 7.5 percent Goldsmith up 28.1 percent Kermit up 10.6 percent Marfa up 9.2 percent McCamey down 1.1 percent See AREA Page 8A.
The White House said the two year hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has closed without finding stockpiles cited to justify the Iraq invasion. President Bush would have acted the same, McClellan stated, as the Iraq Survey Group winds down its active search.
The Odessa City Council ordered the 50 year old Gulf Oil building at 909 W. Second St. razed despite owner David Weseloh protests. The council voted unanimously as Weseloh claimed his constitutional rights would be violated and that he sought time to arrange refurbishing or donation to a church group.
Texas Lt. Gov. Dewhurst announced a Senate school finance plan aiming to cut property taxes by about one third and raise teacher salaries to the national average. The plan promises 6.7 billion new school funding next year in state money after tax cuts, shifting from a property tax to a reduced statewide levy and closing business tax loopholes.
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