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By KERI MITCHELL
The Baytown Sun
BAYTOWN — Two men battling to rep-
resent Baytown in Congress tried to gain
By KRISTOPHER BANKS
The Baytown Sun
By KEN FOUNTAIN
The Baytown Sun
By KRISTOPHER BANKS
The Baytown Sun
AN AMERICAN
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1 County judge, and U.S. Rep. Nick
Lampson, D-Beaumont, are vying for the
recently created congressional District 2
seat, which covers the eastern portion of
after state legislators redrew the congres- morning told him their vote belonged to
„ , , ' him simply on the basis of his party. Troy
whether it will even be needed. t
Because of the building’s rant’s floor space and 50 percent
Baytown Sun photo/Keri Mitchell
ANN, A RESIDENT of East Baker Road, shares her views on the country's
health care system with former Harris County judge Ted Poe, who is running
to represent Baytown in Congress. The Republican Poe spent the morning
knocking on doors, listening to people’s concerns and telling them where he
stands on issues. Ann did not want to give reporters her last name.
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Shrinking workforce
Baytown faces the challenge of having a shrinking
population of people in the prime working age of
'25-44. From 1990 to 2003, that group shrunk from
being 33 percent of the city’s population to 28 per-
cent. The only age group that made significant gains
was the 45-64 group, which went from being 17 per-
cent of the population to being 23 percent.
Adding to the problem is the fact that Baytown is
undereducated in comparison to other locales.
According to 2000 Census data, the percentage of
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ing on doors in the neighborhood, the other portion of the city. over to the side of the road to bend Poe’s ear
by opening an office in town. Poe described Baytown’s residents as fora few minutes. The former judge jotted
Republican Ted Poe, a^ former Hams having a “unique enthusiasm about politics down notes and nodded his agreement as i
and life” and representing all ifacetsjof they proclaimed their support of holding the
Texas. He added that carrying the city is nation’s course in Iraq and their opposition
important to Win the congressional seat.
“We wantto work Baytown and let them Spending.
Baytown within Hams County boundaries know who we are because there are a lot of
and encompasses Highlands, Barrett independent thinkers, and we want to get
them on board,” Poe told his supporters. I
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to same-sex marriage and pork-barrel
“Animals that are dying in my lifetime —
1 don’t care about that. I’m supposed to be
, at retirement age, and I’m hitting the road
Some residents of East Baker Road in |^v a young kid,” Ron Benoit said. “You
Baytown has a perception problem, with people’s
view of the city being out of balance with its actual
condition, according to a
recent report. But percep- KEL
tion of Baytown’s school Jr
district is even more out
of whack.
According to the report teajF jOjfe
by AngelouEcnomics, jg/p Mf,
Baytonians and outsiders
believe the Goose Creek gHB
School district has prob- KLUErnlNl
lems it does not have, FO^BAYTOWN
while the city faces a very
real problem of a shrink-
ing and undereducated
workforce. Lee College is also underutilized by
companies and students, the report says.
The Baytown/West Chambers Economic
Development Strategic Planning Committee hired
Angelou, the Austin-based firm that wrote the
report, to develop an economic plan for the city, the
next step for the firm. There will be a town hall
meeting about the firm’s proposed plan Sept. 28.
The city of Mont Belvieu
announced this week that it will make
available to The Bay town Sun detailed viously not indicated whether it
salary information for the tax-support- wou]d comply with the ruling or the
urging by the Mont Belvieu City
Council a week later to make the
after a state appeals court ruled that records available.
the records should be made public. Neither Strong
City Attorney J. Grady Randle said Rosenberg, the attorney for SSML
that Jeff Strong, president of Strong
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firm which operates the complex for
Poe and his supporters, including former Bowman recognized Poe when he answered
Baytown Mayor Pete Alfaro and the door and immediately asked which tick-
Councilman Sammy Mahan, began the et would bear his name. When Poe told him
morning in the parking lot of the Harris Republican, Bowman said, “Well’, you’ve
County courthouse annex before! splitting
ground^n the city Saturday, one by knock- Up t0 vjsjt neighborhoods in the northeast
portion of the city.
Poe describee!
Baytown Sun photo/Kristopher Banks
DEVELOPER JACK ADC0X, one of the owners of the new Tiki Bay restaurant on Bayland Island, describes the
new decor of the Polynesian-themed restaurant and bar Thurscfay.
when people come over the bridge ordinance as they stand. He’s hop- director of health to waive the difference, Adcox said. With the
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over there?”’ he said. ordinance this Thursday to make
The mostly seafood-based it easier for developers to open
menu is complete and crews are restaurants in older buildings. But
nearly finished with the decor, local anti-smoking advocates say
Station, Crosby and parts of McNair.
Lampson is in his fourth term represent-
ing District 9, in which he no longer resides Chaparral Village where Poe spent his should have seen how high my (income) tax
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iMjscuucig mt auuiiic i’vi AMI The information includes payroll terms of the 2001 management agree- the managements agreement give the
• , could be reached for comment for this records from the inception of SSMl’s ment with SSM1, the city did not have city the right to inspect SSMI’s records
Sports Management Inc., the private story. operations through this month, Randle access to the detailed payroll records.
Randle said Friday that city staff said. In May 2003, State District Judge
BAYTOWN — With a thatched
roof over the bar, bamboo lining
and long-faced, colorful masks
dotting the walls, the Bayland
Island restaurant is beginning to
look a little more South Pacific
than Houston Ship Channel.
Developer Jack Adcox hopes to
have Tiki Bay, the third restaurant
to occupy the building at the foot
of the Fred Hartman Bridge, open
by the end of the month. He’s had
the building painted bright colors
to make it more noticeable from
passers-by on the bridge, and has
plans to make it even more of a
spectacle to draw a crowd.
“We’re going to have a special
lightning system shining through
(the triangular windows on top) so
they’re like, ‘What’s happening ing City Council will change the ordinance. restaurant’s high ceilings and
The 50/50 section is what modem ventilation technology,
makes Bayland Island difficult, non-smokers will be able to sit in
The restaurant is split into two the smoking section and not
levels, and it makes the most notice any difference.
One thing that remains is the city should not revert to older sense, Adcox said, to make one
installing the ventilation system ideas about smoking. I
r__ ,1.. -----The city is examining two parts non-smoking. The problem is that ordinance,” Adcox said of chang-
However, it is not clear yet of the smoking ordinance. One the part that makes the most sense ing ventilation technology.
requires 50 percent of the restau- as the non-smoking side is small- “Unless you’re sitting at the same
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design, Adcox said he cannot of the seats to be non-smoking, would be permitted.
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Mont Belvieu will turn over records for Eagle Pointe
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the city, recently announced his inten- were in the process of redacting the The Baytown Sun filed suit in Carroll E. Wilborn Jr. issued a sum-
tion to comply with the order of the documents of certain personal infor- August 2002 to have the records mary judgment finding for the city
14th Court of Appeals. mation that does not fall within the released, after the city denied an open and SSMI, prompting the newspaper
The firm, which was in actual pos- Texas Public Information Act. After records request following an earlier
the redaction is complete, probably by attempt by Mont Belvieu resident Appeals.
the close of business Monday, a com- Mary Green. The city denied both After hearing oral arguments in
plete set of copies of the information requests based on written opinions by March, a three-judge panel on June 2
would be delivered to the newspaper’s the office of the Texas Attorney overtumedWilborn’sruling.Theopin-
offices. at the request of David Bloom, General. ion, written by Chief Justice Adele
managing editor of The Baytown Sun. The city maintained that under the Hedges, found that since the terms of
The information includes payroll terms of the 2001 management agree-
; “A lot qf things have happened
level the smoking side and one the since they passed the smoking
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ventilation technology.
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