The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 65, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 5, 2004 Page: 3 of 12
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FORT WORTH — A man who
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State AG: Students
have right to vote
AUSTIN — Attorney General
Greg Abbott ruled Wednesday
that Prairie View A&M University
students may vote in their univer-
sity town if they simply designate
Waller County as their residence.
His legal opinion stemmed
from a dispute in which Waller
County District Attorney Oliver
Kitzman, who is white, stated in a of products from chemicals to
letter that students at historically
black Prairie View A&M weren’t
automatically eligible to vote in
local elections.
Abbott, who issued a 15-page
legal ruling, said it is well estab-
lished in Texas law that college
students can vote locally if they
designate their campus address
as their residence.
Massachusetts OKs smwmx marriage
The Massachusetts high court ruled Wednesday that cM unions
among gay couples aren't enough-that only lull, equal marriage
rights are constitutional. The state Senate had requested the
court's opinion before next week’s constitutional convention which
will conaktor an amendment that defines marriage as a union
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HOUSTON — A federal appeals
court says the Port of Houston
does not have to pay for the cost
of relocating or lowering pipelines
in connection with the deepening
of the Houston Ship Channel.
Two years ago, U.S. District
Judge Lynn Hughes had ruled the
port and not the pipeline compa-
nies should foot the bill, estimat-
ed to be $100 million for 100 or
so pipelines, which carry a variety
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“We’re going to have to start looking for
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deposit for a wedding after the opinion.
The case represents a significant mile-
stone in a year that has seen broad new
recognitions of gay rights in America,
Canada and abroad, including a June U.S.
Supreme Court decision striking down a
Texas ban on gay sex.
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BOSTON — The Massachusetts high
court declared Wednesday that gays are
entitled to nothing less than marriage and
that Vermont-style civil unions will not suf-
fice, setting the stage for the nation’s first
legally sanctioned same-sex weddings by
the spring.
The court issued the advisory opinion at
the request of legislator's who wanted to
know whether civil uniorts would be enough
to satisfy the court after its November ruling
that said gay couples are entitled to all the
rights of marriage. That decision had been
written in such a way that it left open the
possibility that civil unions might be
allowed.
But Wednesday’s opinion by the Supreme
Judicial Court left no doubt: Only marriage
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equal,” four justices wrote. “For no rational Constitution prohibits.”
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positive incentive for schools.”
Texas’ per-pupil school
to call a special legislative ses- funding rate was $6,913 in
sion, perhaps in April, to 2002, according to the Texas
change the state’s share-the- Education Agency.
wealth school finance system. For more than a year now,
Perry has said he wants to see a Combs has been speaking out
legislative consensus emerge against childhood obesity and
over how to replace the exist- in favor of good nutrition. Last
ing funding system before summer, the Texas Department
ordering a special session. of Agriculture she oversees
Perry, a Republican like took over administering the
Combs, has been traveling the federally funded child school
state talking up his proposed nutrition program from the
academic achievement-based Texas Education Agency,
financial incentives for schools. Then she issued a new policy
Part of his $500 million plan, for banning the sale or distribution
instance, would give schools of “foods of minimal nutrition-
$100 more per student for each al value” like sodas, candy and
year he or die advances in high gum during the school day at
there’s no basis on which the (court) will
OK anything other than marriage.”
The much-anticipated opinion came a
week before next Wednesday’s
Constitutional Convention, where the
Legislature will consider an amendment
backed by Republican Gov. Mitt Romney
that would define marriage as a union
between a man and a woman.
But the soonest a constitutional amend-
ment could end up on the ballot would be
2006, meaning that until then, the high
court’s decision will be Massachusetts law. ... ...
Gay couples could get married in fandmg, Texas Agriculture
Commissioner Susan Combs is
looking to get schools that bat- students show an average
tie childhood obesity a slice of improvement in a physical
the money pie.
Combs says she is working
on a plan that would reward
schools up to $30 per pupil if
tion and physical education student and $20 per elementary
standards. Details are being ’
she is talking with legislative
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