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Our congratulations to Dahlia Meza, who recently won the Ruben de
Hoyos Award for Educational Excellence from the Lee College
Educational Access Committee. Meza, in her 16th year with Goose
Creek CISD, is an educator at Travis Elementary School.
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t has been less than a year since Ross Perot and Vice President A1 Gore
debated each other on TV over the future of the North American Free
Trade Agreement and whether Congress should ratify the treaty.
You will probably remember that Perot called NAFTA the silliest trade
agreement ever proposed and predicted its passage would result in “a giant
sucking sound” from the jobs that would pour out of the U.S. into Mexico.
It seems Ross was wrong.
According to estimates by the U.S. Commerce Department, NAFTA cre-
ated more than 100,000 new jobs in the first six months of 1994, while job
dislocations from the agreement totaled less than 5,000. Two-way trade
between Mexico and the United Slates is up 19 percent over 1993.
Since NAFTA was ratified,
■ Exports of U.S. cars and trucks are up 469 percent,
■ Unmilled maize is up 225 percent,
■ Transistors and TV tubes are up 91 percent,
; ■ Chemical products are up 88 percent, and
■ U.S. produced clothing is up 72 percent.
In addition, U.S. trade with Canada, the oft-forgotten third partner in
NAFTA, is up 11 percent over the past year.
That new business is benefiting large and small companies alike. While
. new Wal-Marts and McDonald’s are popping up across the Mexican coun-
tryside, smaller U.S.-owned companies are enjoying the freedom of operat-
ing without Mexican partners, one of the provisions of NAFTA.
Some of the biggest benefactors of the agreement in Texas are the owners
of an industrial park surrounding Forth Worth’s Alliance Airport, they go by
the name of Perot.
Since NAFTA was ratified, five major corporations have announced they
!; will relocate operations to Alliance, including Zenith, which will open a
distribution center which will, ship TVs to more than half the United States.
It’s ironic that the giant sucking sound Ross Perot predicted is sucking
money into his family’s pockets.
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how much ado they made about noth-
1? ing, the 1990s are in for a drubbing.
How many hours do you suppose we
wasted reading and watching stories
about those sad losers, John and Lorena
Bobbitt? The rape trial of William
Kennedy Smith, featuring an accuser
with a big blue dot for a face? The “old
Elvis” vs. the “new FT^is” stamp flap?
The late-night television wars? The
National Twerp, H. Ross Perot? The
National Flake, Jerry Brown? The British
royal family? John and Caroline
Kennedy? Caroline, Stephanie and Albert
of Monaco? The Rev. Al Sharpton,
arguably the nation’s most adroit b.s.
artist? Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas? Can
we have a law requiring him to take the
cotton balls out of his mouth before he
speaks? Senate Majority Leader Robert
Dole, a.k.a. Dr. No? Any story you read
about Dole is a waste of time because
they all say the same thing: He’s against
years and resurfaces with the regularity
of a school of dolphins. The news maga- •
zines have featured it. And USA Today — -
that old pulsetaker again — recently
polled the people on the question, “Has
American Become Too Cynical?”
Yes, Americans are cynical, and God
love ’em for it. I can cite a dozen reasons,
from Tammany Hall to Watergate. I can *
sum it up in one word: Congress. If any-
Amprifianc OfO thing keeps the hypocrites who govern us
Ml!SCI ivuiiii ul U within reasonable bounds, it is the notion ;
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Cynical, and UOU kick them out. Long live cynicism.
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love Cm tot ll lean story. OK, so this one is not as momen-
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frflits Tammanu Uall 's *5 minutes longer than it was a.decade
nom lammany nail ago. So? It’s now costing the average
. ... . , family of four more than $100 for a day
JO Watergate. at the park, and the wags want to cut it
® short? They want fans to pay $40 an hour '
■ instead of $33? How dumb.
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wasted trying to make sense of Whitewa-
ter, that thin gruel the anti-Clinton crowd
has labored mightily to pass off as a scan-
dal? Or that same, sad cabal’s paranoid
Lindbergh trials were not exactly parlor . My favorite complainer on this matter
games, but what the hey. Then some *s Washington Post s resident nag,
“jury consultant” quoted in a banner Jonathan Yardley, who claims to be a Bai-
headline by USA Today — we’re talking t'more O^oles fan. A recent sampling:
the pulse of America here —described "We established, for ourselves and our
efforts to tie the president into numerous - the simpS0n case as the «tria, of the mil_ guests, the 2.5-Hour Rule: After 2.5
murders and suicides? Somewhere in the iennjum.” The by-damn millennium! The hours of play, we’re out of there. Some-
“trials” of Martin Luther and Joan of Arc one cou^ be pitching a no-hitter or
someone else could be hitting homer
after homer, but if they can’t finish the
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literature these loonies pass around there
is a story about the pilot who recently
crashed an airplane on the White House
lawn and a headline that reads: “Clinton
Implicated in Another Suicide.” Betcha.
Other bloated stories that threaten to
turn the last decade of the 20th Century
into a 21st Century laughingstock:
Mike
be damned. This is Hollywood, baby.
Nearly 50 media outlets will cover the
trial, with Court TV and CNN —rapidly job within 2.5 hours, they can finish
becoming the electronic version of a without us.”
dung beetle — carrying it live. At various Such fire. Such fervor. If we could just
times, the New York Times has had nine get Big Jon to organize a boycott of O.J.
reporters assigned to the story, the stories. ■
■ The O.J. Simpson murder trial. Has National Enquirer has had 20 and the Los Joseph Spear’s column is distributed by
history ever witnessed such an overblown Angeles Times has had 30. the Newspaper Enterprise Association.
event? The “Legal Battle of the Century,” ■ The “Is Amprica too cynical?” story. His correspondence may be addressed
they said at first. Well, the Scopes and This one has been around for four or five care of this newspaper.
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Public schools have always been about more than the three Rs. Schools pro-
vide an environment in which social and academic benefits constantly overlap.
Oftentimes, it’s the fun and personal rewards of extracurricular activities that
keep students interested in attending school.
Critics of the state’s no-pass, no-play law say that’s a reality that is lost in the
current policy. As a result, they fear that some students who fail to meet eligi-
bility requirements to participate in such activities may be turning to gangs or
dropping out of school.
Data on the effect of the no-pass, no-play law — which requires students to
make passing grades to be eligible for sports, band and other extracurricular
activities — is inconclusive. Overall, it appears that the law is working. But
given the concern from a cross section of educators and others that the policy
may be driving students at risk of failing out of school, it is time to consider
changes to the decade-old policy...
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McNair residents will fight to keep two-way street
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LENA M. CARRIER
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Minority, minority, minority!
Explain, please, what is a minority? As
far as I can understand, a minor thing,
person or place is lesser than the
greater. Who or what is the greater?
When it comes to the “who,” as far as I
understand God created all humans
equal and there is one race. So where in
the world did it come about that any
race can assume that it is “greater” than
all others?
Undermining acts and closed-door
discussions to make things better for
the “greater” race is the crafty work of
Satan; but the good thing about it is
through the wisdom, goodness and
guidance of the Mighty One, these
deceptions come to light.
It is understood that the road that
leads to Harlem Elementary School is
in danger of becoming a one-way street else’s.
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for the convenience of the “greater.” No
such thing! We have a Catholic church
— Holy Family — on this road and we
are residents of McNair, Kings Colony
Addition, and we have rights and voic-
es to be heard. We own this area, we
pay taxes and we protest the idea.
Undoubtedly this was thought out for a
while and that’s the reason for Harlem
Elementary’s location, to make things
convenient, but not for McNair’s resi-
dents.
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Dobbs, Gary. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 294, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 9, 1994, newspaper, October 9, 1994; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1158153/m1/4/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.