Elections feel the strain of modern politics and timing
Ken Brodnax laments waning election enthusiasm amid Super Tuesday delays and early voting, noting fewer poll workers, low turnout, and a public fatigue from lengthy campaigns and pervasive campaigning. He highlights shifts in media, information access, and voter disinterest shaping a challenging political landscape.
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George W. Bush
al Gore
Southside
Blackshear Magnet School
Ector County
Reggie Yearwood
Mark Donaldson
Carl Rogers
Precinct
Gerard Bowen
Hugh Gibbs
Tom Todd
Jerry Springer
Apa
Odessa City Council elections may be canceled again
Odessa officials warn the city may cancel elections for lack of challengers as three of five seats are up, with candidates including Slider Calzada Cleaver Hext Morris and no declared opponents by the 5 p.m. deadline. If no one files by Wednesday, the vote could be called off.
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Odessa
Larry Melton
Slider
Calzada
Odessa Development Corp
Jim Morris
Hext
Mental health funding cuts reshape Texas waiver homes
Community forum hears state plan to reduce Medicaid waiver capacity for severe mental illness. PBCC will close seven of ten Odessa Midland homes, convert others to four bedroom facilities, risking moves for 2 800 statewide clients and forcing sale of two group homes. Local advocates push to keep patients near families.
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Texas Department of Mental Health and
Mental Retardation
Texas
Robert Welsh
Tcmhmr
Permian Basin
PBCC
Betty Stice
Odessa
Midland
Robert Rose
Midland Association For
Stice
Lufkin man charged in fake-identity scam
A 33 year old Lufkin man, Carlos Torres Chavarria, was indicted on eight counts for using false names and Social Security numbers to obtain up to 160000 in merchandise. Midland police, aided by a sting at Norwest Financial, say he used the victim’s husband’s identity to buy items including three laptops and clothing totaling about 4300. Detention hearing set for Monday.
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Midland
Lufkin
Carlos Torres Chavarria
Glen Jackson
Houston
Chavarria
Sears Department
Odessa
Music City
Cass Jenkins
Credit Fraud Department
Sear’s
Jenkins
Credit Department
Credit Bureaus
Norwest Financial
Norwest
OPD
Ron Hughes
Court grants Odessan on death row a retrial
A Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rules 6 to 3 that Odessa resident Raymond Cobb, 23, who was 17 at conviction, must be retried in Walker County after finding police failed to contact his lawyer before obtaining a confession. Cobb was convicted of capital murder in the deaths of Margaret Owings and her 16 month old daughter during a burglary.
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Austin
Odessa
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Raymond Levi Cobb
Walker County
Cobb
Margaret Owings
Roy E. Greenwood
Greenwood
Bruce Green
Appeals
Green
Supreme Court
David Weeks
Associated Press
Owings
Triple 7 Club site shut after raid on eight-liner parlors
After a February raid by the Attorney General's Office Texas DPS and Odessa Police Department, five eight-liner parlors were searched seizing over 200 slot machines and nearly $300000 in cash and gifts. The Triple 7 on Seventh Street closed with its sign removed and doors locked as authorities investigate legality.
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Seventh Street
Attorney General's Office
Andrea Horton
Attorney General
Texas Department of Public Safety
Odessa
Triple 7
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