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Don't waste chance to vote this year
      On Tuesday, March 4, voters all across Texas will march to the polls to decide their Democratic and Republican candidates for the November general election. In Jasper County, it's no different as voters will go to the election booths to take the first step in determining the next sheriff of Jaspe...
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Letters to the Editor
      Get out and vote By JEFF SCOTT Jasper With the March primary at hand, I would like to stress to all voters to vote. For too long most blacks have lived with the mentality that their votes don't matter, this isn't true. The principal of voting that people, both black and white, have paid the...
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Guest Commentary One person's viewpoint
House, nursing assistant
Mack Hall
      House is a reasonably intelligent television show featuring the eponymous lead as a Byronic hero who is never sacked despite his drug abuse, ill manners, television watching, and video gaming, all on the job, because he develops brilliant solutions to apparently impossible medical problems.
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Capital Highlights A summary of the week's significant events in Austin
Democratic candidates debate in capital city
Ed Sterling Texas Press Association
      A USTIN - Barack Obama of Illinois and Hillary Clinton of New York met at the University of Texas to debate in a nationally televised forum on Feb. 21.
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