PW's conservative liberal clash over Bush Kerry politics
Opinion piece argues the 2004 presidential race centers on liberals challenging conservatives not party lines. Cites PJ O'Rourke essay How To Explain Conservatism To Your Squishy Liberal Friends and contrasts with The Passion of the Christ discourse. Includes light notes on a shoe cartoon, a spelling poem, and personal contact for Bill Salter in Odessa.
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Kerry
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PJ. O’rourke
R’ Us
O’rourke
Robin Hood
America
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John Kerry
O'Rourke
Christ
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Paradise
Davy Crockett
Peter Jackson Plans Hobbit Film Amid Rights Dispute
Peter Jackson will direct The Hobbit, but New Line Cinema holds the rights to produce while MGM holds distribution rights. He notes lawyers from both studios will clash over the matter as he remains busy directing and preparing King Kong for release next year.
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New York
Peter Jackson
Shire
J.R.R. Tolkien
Jackson
New Line Cinema
MGM
New Line
MCH plans over 6 million in major hospital expansions
Webster outlined a five year plan for MCH including an inpatient rehabilitation floor an oncology clinic and a new women and children’s floor with a 20 bed obstetrics unit and NICU plus a six bed pediatric unit. The hospital may start rehab construction in May pending board approval.
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Webster
MCH
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Tech
el Paso
Regional plan seeks physician staffing for 16 counties
Becker notes the plan targets near and long term healthcare needs in a 16 county region excluding Ector County. MCH serves as the regional referral hospital and must assess existing staffing in those counties to include their needs in the plan.
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Becker
Ector County
MCH
Hospital plan targets service edge through marketing and niches
Executive Officer William Webster outlines a plan to gain a service advantage by improving customer service and pursuing niche areas where demand is unmet. He notes ongoing collaboration with the private medical community and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center to promote hospital services.
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Webster
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Tech Odessa plans expand medical faculty with Texas Tech and MCH
Odessa faces recruitment challenges as Medical Center Hospital and Texas Tech pursue joint hiring to meet resident education and research needs. General surgeons, cardiology, and new specialties are eyed, with expansion of the Sciences Center and a four year medical school conversion of the El Paso campus.
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Chevrolet
Second Street
MCH
Sam Houston Avenue
Green Hammes Company
Fifth Street
Hammes
Alliance Hospital
Texas Tech
Odessa’ Regional Hospital
Washington and Fourth Street
Wesley Burnett
Odessa Chamber of Commerce
Burnett
Tech
Becker
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Odessa
el Paso
Amarillo
Lubbock
Dallas
Houston
Donald Loveman
West Texas
Loveman
Medical lab tech shortage study spurs UT systems program
UTPB and UTMB professors will teach via video and web courses to train more medical laboratory technicians. Six applicants meet the minimum, while labor data show a 2010 target of 120000 needed by 2010 though 4000 grads per year. Odessa College nursing and lab tech programs face enrollment and faculty constraints.
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UTMB
Vicki Freeman
Department of
Clinical Laboratory Sciences
Freeman
UTPB
William Fannin
Department of Labor
Carmen Edwards
Odessa College
Campaign ads and pop culture mix in early 2000s US talk
Bush releases a campaign commercial showing the World Trade Center ruins and Kerry airs a counterspot depicting him whipped by Roman soldiers. The Sopranos returns with Tony Soprano killing a man in the premiere. Barry Bonds avoids comment on steroids as Mark McGwire admits androstenedione use. The home run record saga ties to Roger Maris’s family amid controversy.
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World Trade Center
John Kerry
Barry Bonds
Mark McGwire
Roger Maris
Jessica Lynch
Texas Lottery Winning Numbers and Draw Details
The Odessa American lists the Texas Lottery results for Lotto with numbers 14 18 27 37 4 37 for Saturday March 6 and an estimated jackpot of $6 million, plus Cash 5 and Pick 3 daytime and nighttime results. Also shown are Road Runner Cash numbers 8 9 16 27 3 44 2 for Friday March 5.
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