Odessa City seeks 18 percent raises for police and fire
Odessa officials negotiate with police and firefighters associations to craft a salary package covering all city employees to avoid a September referendum. The plan includes immediate 18 percent starting pay raises for police and fire departments and a 6 percent across the board raise for all city workers starting April 1, 2004. City Manager Richard Morton cites the city’s small tax base among the Pick Six as a factor shaping the offer.
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Odessa
Darrell Pope
Central Fire Station
Richard Morton
Police
Attacks in Iraq kill six British soldiers in attack
Six British soldiers died at a southern Iraq police station with eight wounded in an ambush. The strike, the deadliest against coalition forces since Saddam Hussein's fall, unsettled Basra after troops patrolled without flak jackets. Reports say insurgents intensified attacks, while Rumsfeld claimed progress against remaining resistance.
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Baghdad
Iraq
Saddam Hussein
Basra
Ramadi
Defense
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Rumsfeld
Defense Department
Hispanics underrepresented on major networks study finds
A University of California Los Angeles study shows Hispanics, the largest growing minority at 13.6 percent of the population, received only 3 percent of screen time on fall 2002 prime time across six networks. Whites 81 percent and blacks 15 percent. advocates call TV out of touch with reality.
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Los Angeles
University of California
U.S
Lisa Navarette
National Council of la Raza
Washington, D.C
Area farmers hail Cap Rock bill signing as victory
Rodney Gulley of the St. Lawrence Cotton Growers Association in Martin County praises Gov. Perry for signing Senate Bill 1280 which places Cap Rock Energy Corp under Public Utilities Commission oversight. The measure ends Cap Rock’s unique dual status after its 1998 shift from a rural co op to a public company and strips the 1999 electric deregulation amendment. Senator Troy Fraser backed the bill to clarify regulation and protect electricity buyers.
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Brian Pelzel
Teel Bivins
CEED
Cap Rock Energy Corporation
Rick Peny
Cap Rock
Public Utilities Commission
Cap Rock Energy Corp
Rick Perry
Rodney Gulley
St. Lawrence
Gulley
PUC
Midland
Texas
Senate
Troy Fraser
Horsehead Bay
Drug may prevent prostate cancer but not all will want drug
Scientists report finasteride a drug that shrinks enlarged prostates and combats baldness reduces prostate cancer risk by about 25 percent in a large study of 18,000 older men. Yet sexual side effects and potential for more aggressive tumors in some men mean doctors and patients must review data to decide use. The trial was halted early and NEJM posted results online.
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Washington
Leslie Ford
National Cancer Institute
U.S
Ian Thompson
University of Texas Health Sciences
New England Journal of Medicine
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