TEXAS STRAIGHT TALK
Congress allows 'Death Tax' to continue to live
U.S. REP RON PAUL
      This past week, Congress had an opportunity to permanently repeal the death tax by amending the Tax Collection Responsibility Act of 2007 to include language that ends the estate tax forever. This would have been a good provision in an overall bad bill.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Dinner glitch elicits apology
      Editor, the Leader-News: On behalf of the El Campo Youth Soccer League and the Boys & Girls Club of El Campo I offer my deepest thanks along with my most sincere apology. While Monday's Chicken Strip dinner was headed towards being a huge success with 900 meals served, we overestimated the proje...
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Coffee drinkers enjoy vicarious thrills
SLIM RANDLES
      Some of us went out to Thrill Hill the other day to watch the fun until the state police were able to come up from the upper end and close it.
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Texan DeBakey helped change the world
JOHN CORNYN U.S. SENATOR
      Later this month, President Bush will present a Congressional Gold Medal, the legislative branch's highest civilian award, to Dr. Michael Ellis DeBakey of Houston. I was proud to join Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and the Texas delegation in sponsoring this latest honor for our state's most famous med...
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