Texas Press Messenger: May 2013

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Texas Gulf Coast Press celebrates 75 years

Russel Skiles, Lamesa Press-Reporter

Lawrence Levy, Jewish Herald-Voice

Texas Gulf Coast Press Association celebrated 75 years at its annual convention, May 16-18, in Galveston. Pictured above is a group shot of anniversary attendees. Photos by TPA’s Shawn Jones.

Regina Keilers, Fayette County Record

TPA’s Dwight McKenzie and wife, Herma.

Jeff Latcham, Beeville Publishing, and Mary Judson, Port Aransas South Jetty

Scott McDonald, Navasota Examiner; Murray and Mary Judson, Port Aransas South Jetty; and Larry Hauk, Copperas Cove Leader-Press

Lou Ann Sornson, Metro Creative Graphics, and Russel Skiles, Lamesa Press-Reporter

Tania French, Port Lavaca Wave

Featuring TGCPA, PPA and STPA contest results!

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2012-2013 TPA BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS

President Russel Skiles, Lamesa Press-Reporter; First vice President Greg Shrader, Lufkin Daily News; Second vice President Randy Mankin, Eldorado Success; Treasurer Glenn Rea, Cuero Record; Chairman Chad Ferguson, Banner Press Newspaper

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Small newspapers memorialize big moments in the lives of our readers and communities Showing its age, the old newspaper clipping has turned a pale shade of orange and is torn on the edges in a couple of places.

Arriving in the mail recently, the clipping was accompanied by a brief note from Carolyn Anderson of The Texas Mohair Weekly in Rocksprings.

“Found this photo in a box of old photos given to the newspaper,” she wrote.

“I think it is your mom & dad.”

She was right.

The clipping — a photo with a cutline — is a newspaper announcement of my parents’ wedding in 1952 at the First Baptist Church of Mertzon.

Trimmed closely, the old clipping doesn’t include anything that indicates the name of the newspaper or the town in which it was published.

It could have been San Angelo, near where my mom was raised, or Alpine, where the 21-year-old newlyweds were scheduled to return to college.

But I suspect it came from the Del Rio newspaper, given the proximity of that city to both Rocksprings and my dad’s hometown of Langtry.

I have no idea how it wound up in a box of photos given to The Texas Mohair Weekly.

On the newspaper margin above the photo is a penciled note, apparently written by the person who carefully cut the announcement out of the newspaper.

“Thought you would like to see this picture,” it says. “Rose Mary.”

Although written to someone else almost 61 years ago, the message reached out across time, almost as if it was written just for me.

What a treasure!

I have seen the photo before — maybe even a similar newspaper clipping — in my parents’ collection

of wedding memorabilia.

Mom and dad marked their 60th anniversary last fall and, God willing, will celebrate another year together this coming September.

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And now, all these years after their wedding, a newspaper clipping from their big day winds up in the hands of their son.

To me, that speaks volumes about the importance of newspapers in the daily lives of our readers and our communities.

Someone years ago took the time to clip a wedding announcement out of a newspaper and send it to someone else, perhaps a friend or family member.

That clipping was cherished enough that it was saved and eventually tucked away in a box with other items.

Eventually it was rediscovered, and again was sent to someone who will long cherish and treasure it.

Pieces of the newspapers we publish are receiving similar treatment every day, even today.

Life-changing events such as births, graduation ceremonies, weddings and deaths are regularly being recorded in local newspapers.

Those stories and photos are making their way into scrapbooks and other personal collections to be saved for years.

So are newspaper accounts of

many more-everyday events like basketball games, livestock shows and even local city council meetings.

Honor rolls, published letters to Santa Claus, and photos of Easteregg hunts receive similar treatment.

Each is important, on a very personal level, to someone.

A district judge serving four counties in our area subscribes to all of the newspapers in the district and regularly clips out items to send, with a handwritten note, to many of the people recognized in those newspapers.

All of those clippings are likely to be saved and preserved for years in the future.

At the same time, people are turning to newspapers for information from years past.

We regularly receive inquiries from people looking for local newspaper accounts of long-ago events.

Just recently someone was seeking a published photo of triplets born in 1928.

Another person was looking for a story about a murder many years ago which may have prompted her ancestors, who witnessed it, to pack up and move to California.

The goal of newspapers generally is to inform our readers of events and activities affecting their lives, their neighbors and their communities.

But in doing so, we’re also recording and preserving those events — and documenting them for history.

The stories, photos and even the advertisements we publish reach across the years.

And in today’s digital age they reach around the world.

Receiving a newspaper clipping can make someone’s day, even 60 years after the fact.

It certainly made mine!

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How to handle non-receipts of requested info Q: Our groundwater conservation district recently adopted a media policy that (a) prohibits board members from answering direct questions from the media; (b) requires media to submit questions via email; and (c) allows the district to answer media questions collectively at its next meeting if it chooses to do so. At its next meeting, the board refused to answer my questions about water well contamination. The secretary/treasurer told me the board would answer my questions via correspondence. I put my request in writing and I am still waiting for a response. What options do I have? Should I contact the Texas Attorney General’s office?

A: If your complaint is about the way the district conducts its public meetings, Texas Open Meetings Actrelated complaints should be presented to the county attorney or criminal district attorney, according to the Office of the Attorney General. If your complaint is about non-receipt of requested information, you may file a written

complaint with the AG’s Open Records Division. Include with your complaint a copy of your original request for information and any other supporting documentation that may help

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resolve the complaint. And meanwhile, you may want to check for reports of contamination in your county by contacting the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Q: During the public comment portion of a recent meeting of our school board, the chair informed a citizen who wanted to express support for a principal “to please respect the privacy of others and refrain from identifying students, employees or other community members by name.” Can the school board do that?

A: The Texas Open Meetings Act, Government Code Chapter 551, does not require a governmental body to have a public comment period. Whether or not it is the school board’s policy to have a public comment period, the open meetings law does not contemplate a restriction on freedom of speech. If someone is prevented from speaking as you have described, the newspaper can serve as the outlet by interviewing the thwarted speaker and the school board superintendent or school board president. Let the school official explain the district’s policy and publish what you learn.

Q: I plan to file a public information request to get the names of poll watchers in the upcoming election. I want the names of poll watchers for certain precincts. What should I ask for?

A: Ask the presiding election judge for Secretary of State Form AW4-16, titled, “Appointment of Poll Watcher

by Candidate on the Ballot or Declared Write-in Candidate.” At the county courthouse, there should be a form on file for each poll watcher. There is a box on the form for “precinct or other location poll watcher is to serve.”

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Champions of First Amendment deliver for Texas citizens

By Donnis Baggett TPA Executive Vice President When the dust settles from another hard-fought legislative session, the people of Texas will have a clearer picture of current events in the Lone Star State, thanks to the hard work and determination of two Texas statesmen — one Republican, one Democrat.

Rep. Todd Hunter, R-Corpus Christi, and Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, scored major transparency victories in the 83rd Legislature. Three of those victories will be particularly helpful in strengthening and clarifying the public’s right to complete and accurate information.

One crucial bill that Ellis and Hunter shepherded through the legislative dust storm strengthens a crucial First Amendment law they passed two years ago.

That law took aim at legal actions known as Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP) — suits filed against whistleblowers by individuals or entities who have plenty of money to pay lawyers.

SLAPP suits are designed to intimidate and stifle those who dare to exercise their First Amendment rights. Thanks to the 2011 law, however, it was finally possible for a David Q. Citizen with

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Baggett on the 83rd Legislature  FROM PAGE 3 meager resources to defend himself against a SLAPP suit filed by a deeppocketed Goliath.

Unfortunately, an appeals court ruled that the 2011 law did not include certain appeal rights for David. If a judge ruled against David’s motion to dismiss Goliath’s suit early in the process, David could very quickly find himself bankrupted by the expensive discovery process following that denial.

The legal tweak pushed through the 2013 session by Hunter and Ellis makes it crystal clear that David does, indeed, have a right to appeal, thereby stopping the discovery process until the motion is heard on appeal. It is a major victory for those who believe the quality of justice shouldn’t be determined by the depth of one’s pocketbook.

Another measure championed by Ellis and Hunter makes it clear that a government official’s use of his private electronic device for messages regarding public business does not allow him to hide those messages from public scrutiny.

In recent years, a number of local officials across Texas have maintained that their government-related messages are no business of the public so long as the official uses his private device to send or receive them. Texas attorneys general have consistently ruled against that strained and arrogant line of reasoning, but officials continue to try to evade Texas’ open records laws anyway.

Once signed by the governor, the

law will establish in black and white that citizens do indeed have the right to access these electronic messages about the public’s business. There should be no doubt going forward that if a public official is discussing public business in cyberspace, those messages are, yes, public — regardless of whether they’re transmitted on the official’s government computer or his personal e-tablet.

The third bill enhances public discourse by establishing clear and fair rules for prompt corrections by publishers. Until now, there was no established legal framework for a citizen to request a correction, nor were there guidelines for publishers to follow in addressing that request. The new law establishes clear processes and deadlines, which will result in the record being corrected quickly and fully when a mistake is made.

None of these important legal advances would have happened without the hard work and legislative prowess of Hunter and Ellis. For decades the two veteran lawmakers have fought hard — often against daunting opposition — to expand and protect citizens’ access to government information and journalists’ right to cover the complex issues that affect our daily lives.

The 83rd Legislative Session of the Texas Legislature saw these two veteran legislators from different parties — men who do not consider the First Amendment a partisan issue — at the top of their game. And because they were at the top of their game, the citizens of Texas can see more clearly now.

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Beilue and Brooks inducted in PPA Hall of Fame Former Panhandle Press Association president and longtime area journalist John Brooks of Castro County and Amarillo Globe-News columnist and longtime sports writer and editor Jon Mark Beilue were inducted into the PPA Hall of Fame at the 103rd annual Panhandle Press Convention in Amarillo in April.

John Brooks’ resume includes working at the Castro County News from 1967 to 1973, then from 1984 to 1987 and again from 1993 to 1997. He worked at the HSU Brand at HardinSimmons University from 1973 to 1974 and the Hereford Brand from 1987 to 1993 and rejoined the Hereford Brand staff in 2012. He was an active member of Panhandle Press Association from 1984 to 1997. He served on the board of the association from 1987 to 1993, including a term as president from 1992 to Jan. 10, 1993. Brooks has received many awards through the years, including a Personal School Bell Award in 1991 from the Texas State Teachers Association for education coverage in Hereford. He has received dozens of individual and staff awards from PPA and Texas Press Association. Brooks left the Hereford Brand in January 2012 due to health reasons, but he continues to write a weekly column.

Beilue has covered the Texas Panhandle in two major roles at the Amarillo Globe-News, first as sports editor and now as a popular, general columnist.

Beilue grew up in Groom and graduated from Texas Tech University.

While sports editor of The University Daily at Tech in the 1970s, he covered Southwest Conference athletics and interviewed such sports figures as basketball legend Bob Knight. At the Globe-News, Beilue worked as a sportswriter and assistant sports editor before serving as sports editor for 17 years. He also can be heard as a color man on area high school football radio broadcasts. Since 2006, he has written columns and news on is-

PPA Hall of Fame inductees – Jon Mark Beilue of Amarillo (left) and John Brooks of Dimmit (right). sues, trends and people on the front page and elsewhere in the newspaper, touching readers across the region with heartfelt observations and descriptions. He is a modern newspaperman whose breadth of knowledge also provides a link to the area’s past.

Other highlights of the convention included featured speakers U.S. Reps.

Mac Thornberry and Tumbleweed Smith. Sessions were conducted by Tim Harrower on “Futurizing Your Newspaper” and Griff Singer and an expert panel gave tips for “Dealing with Disasters.”

The PPA was led this year by Canyon’s Amanda Rogers. She will continue on the PPA board as immediate past president with the following officers: Wanda Brooks of Dumas, president; Jeff Blackmon of Shamrock, vice president; and Roger Estlack of Clarendon, secretary/treasurer, along with directors Ashlee Estlack of Clarendon, Debra Wells of Borger, ReDonn Woods of Pampa, Larry Thornton of Muleshoe, and Wayne Hodgin of Post.

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Division 3 1. Lampasas Dispatch Record 2. Round Rock Leader 3. Beeville Bee-Picayune Serious column Division 1 1. Pflugerville Pflag 2. The Smithville Times 3. Goldthwaite Eagle

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