Wanted strong education boss for Texas executive post
Texas View notes a want ad style call for a top education agency leader to manage 181 experts in education business medicine and social policy with English Educationese skills and Spanish a plus. It also reflects on Robert Scott’s five year tenure and the political dynamics shaping Texas education policy and funding.
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Rick Perry
Robert Scott
State Board of Education
Scott
State Higher Education Coordinating Board
Texas
State of Texas
Florence Shapiro
Thomas Jefferson
United States
State Board
Perry
Let Peace Begin With Me Promises From Free Society
A 1988 Pulitzer winner Patrick Cant publisher Laura Dennis editor promotes self mastery as the path to freedom. The newspaper proclaims freedom as a divine gift, not a political grant, urging readers to align actions with moral guides and the Declaration of Independence.
Baseball's all time stars Sowell's Hoover role noted
A brief item highlights Sowell, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and his syndication status as part of a noted roster of all time baseball stars.
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Sowell
Hoover Institution
Stanford University
All Time Greatest Baseball Hitters Narrowed To Five
An analysis compares lifetime batting averages and slugging figures to identify the five leading hitters. Ty Cobb and Rogers Hornsby top batting average and slugging lists respectively, Babe Ruth dominates slugging, Ted Williams shines in on base and batting, while Lou Gehrig stands out for RBIs and bases loaded homers, forming a short list of five contenders.
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Ty Cobb
Rogers Hornsby
Hornsby
Cobb
Babe Ruth
Barry Bonds
Hank Aaron
Willie Mays
Joe DiMaggio
Hank Greenberg
Ted Williams
Williams
Lou Gehrig
Gehrig
Alex Rodriguez
Air Force faith references spark congressional call for guidance
A group of 66 lawmakers urged Defense Secretary Panetta to counter alarm in the Air Force by guiding a shift away from biblical and religious imagery in service culture. The move followed Chief of Staff Norton Schwartz actions removing God references from patches and chapels while critics cite years of religious tradition in Air Force lore and literature.
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Congress
Secretary of Defense
Leon Panetta
Air Force
USS
Norton Schwartz
God
Schwartz
Military Religious Freedom Foundation
Truth-out.org
Robert Lee Scott Jr
China- Burma
Claire Chennault
Flying Tigers
Gillespie Magee
Pearl Harbor
Odessa Homeless Care Effort Receives Public Support
Odessa American invites community input on homelessness care projects with a thumbs up initiative endorsing current efforts and inviting positive or negative feedback via email submissions for nomination consideration.
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Odessa
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Thomas Sowell
Baseballalmanac.com
Jeff Koterea
Colum
Earl Tilford
Offutt Air Force Base
Strategic Air Command
SAC
Southeast Asia
Laos
North Vietnam
Panhandle
Ho Chi Minh Trail
544Th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing
Moscow
Sverdlovsk
Vorkuta
Volgograd
U.S. Air Force Academy
Michael Shaara
Erich Remarque
Gomers
Rebs
Friedrich Nietzsche
Universal “Force
Center For Vision & Values
Grove City College
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