The News

Carrol Thomas retirement party venue is changing

The retirement “Extravaganza” for Dr. Carrol Thomas wasn’t supposed to cost taxpayers a dime when the Beaumont Council of PTAs was sponsoring the event. Yet, less than two months later, the PTA’s been dropped, BAABSE is now headlining the event and taxpayers are on the hook for $1,600 after BISD put down a deposit for the event — and canceled.

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Hate finds new home

President Barack Obama

BU study shows racism alive, well among new media users

 

In the days before the civil rights movement, blacks were stereotyped as “animalist, evil or shiftless.” A recent Baylor University study showed that these labels are not a thing of the past; nor does a person’s political or societal status make them immune. There has been a resurgence of these images on social networking sites such as Facebook.

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News of the Weird

Urinal Technology

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Keystone pipeline coming

Construction of Gulf Coast Project underway in Jefferson County

Those big tractor-trailer rigs transporting large quantities of pipe across Jefferson County represent the advance guard of a huge construction project that will bring crude oil to the thirsty refineries along the Texas Gulf coast – and jobs to Southeast Texas.

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BISD still making questionable Top 10 claim

Motorists cruising down Highway 69 in Beaumont near the Delaware exit might notice a large yellow banner on the side of Austin Middle School’s gymnasium proudly proclaiming that Beaumont Independent School District is among the “Nation’s Top 10 School District(s).”

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