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THURSDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 2002
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State Capitol
Highlights
by Mike Cox
TtHUS PRtSS ISSOCIITIOH
AUSTIN-And the winning num-
bers are 2...9...6...6 - with a dollar
sign in front, a decimal point after
the 2 and the word "billion" at the
end.
Some good financial news fi-
nally came out of Austin recently
with the Lottery Commission's
announcement that it had taken in
$2,966 billion in ticket sales during
fiscal 2002 - almost a 5 percent in-
crease over the year before.
From the money, in addition to
paying off prizes and costs, the
agency transferred $956.6 million
to the state, primarily for K-12
public education.
Another $869.7 million was de-
posited in the Foundation School
Fund.
Additionally, $40 million went
to the Multicategorical Teaching
Hospital Fund and $46.8 million to
the Tertiary Care Facility
Account.
The $2.9 billion in sales last
year represents an increase of al-
most 5 percent, despite the na-
tion's lousy economy. Or maybe
because of it, since winning the,
lottery is one of the quickest finan-
cial boosts possible.
Of course, this money does not
solve the state's budget shortfall,
which has been changing about as
fast as winning lottery numbers.
In its 10 years, the Texas Lot-
tery, the fourth largest selling lot-
tery in North America, has
generated more than $9.5 billion
for the state and paid more than
$15 billion to players in prizes,
New EBllege plan offered
Texas Tomorrow, the prepaid
college tuition program run by the
Comptroller's office, has a new
name and a new way to cover
non-tuition related college costs.
The new name is the Texas To-
morrow Funds program. The two
funds are the existing Guaranteed
Tuition Plan and the new Tomor-
row's College Investment Plan.
The new plan covers costs not
provided for under the existing tu-
ition plan.
More than 132,000 Texas fami-
lies have enrolled in the college
plan since it was started in 1996.
Details are available at
www.texastomorrowfunds.org or
by calling 800-445-GRAD (4723).
Burrowing gels easier
Signing on the dotted line can't
get much easier than it already is,
but understanding what you are
agreeing to when you take out a
loan definitely has.
Acting on legislation stemming
from a Sunset Commission recom-
mendation, the state Finance
Commission, which oversees the
Office of Consumer Credit Com-
missioner, has adopted rules sim-
plifying the language in standard
loan contracts up to $12,000.
Standard loan contracts com-
plying with the Texas Finance
Code have been rewritten at a sev-
enth grade level, with terminology
such as "upon any such default,
and at any time thereafter," trans-
formed into "If I break any of my
promises in this document..."
Work still is underway on sim-
plifying home equity loan con-
tracts. One thing that hasn't
changed: You still have to pay
back the loan, plus interest.
For more information on the
simplification program, visit www.
occc.state.tx.us
Other high lights
• Thousands of Texans were
scheduled to gather on Texas
beaches Sept. 21 for the state's an-
nual Adopt-A-Beach cleanup.
Last year, 8,000 volunteers col-
lected 96 tons of trash along 155
miles of coastline.
• The new state Office of Rural
Community Affairs announced
availability of grants available
from the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation for volunteer care giv-
ing programs for the ill, disabled
or elderly.
For more information on the
$35,000 start-up grants, check the
agency's Web site at www.
orca.state.tx.us or 800-936-6701.
WELL, m OFFENDER PEOPLE.
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Domestic Violence Awareness Month
letters
to the edators
Field Notes continued from Page 2
THE TEXAS AND U.S. governments have desig-
nated the month of October as Domestic Violence
Awareness Month. In October 1987, the first Do-
mestic Violence Awareness Month was held. It
evolved from the first Day of Unity observed in Oc-
tober 1981 by the National Coalition Against Do-
mestic Violence, In 1989, the U.S. Congress passed
the first Domestic Violence Awareness Month Com-
memorative legislation. Such legislation has passed
every year since.
During the month of October, Tralee Crisis Cen-
ter of Pampa, in
conjunction with
the Texas Council
on Family Vio-
lence and bat-
tered women's
shelters across
the nation, will
hold events and
activities to draw public attention to the epidemic of
domestic violence, supporting battered women and
letting batterers know there is no excuse for abuse.
Domestic Violence affects people of all ages, races,
income levels and gender. It violates an individual's
privacy, dignity, Security and humanity, due to sys-
tematic use of physical, emotional, sexual, psycho-
logical and economic control or abuse.
Nationwide, there were 151,057 calls answered
by the National Domestic Violence Hotline in 2001.
According to 1999 Statistics, approximately 1,839
women suffered from abuse from an intimate part-
ner each day in America. Approximately two women
are killed every week as a result of domestic vio-
lence. According to the statistics from the Texas
Council on Family Violence, 113 women died in the
state of Texas in 2001 as a result of domestic vio-
lence. According to these same statistics, there were
180,385 incidents of domestic violence reported in
the state of Texas in 2001.
Sadly, the statistics do not stop at the national or
state level. Locally, there were 1,481 calls made to
the Tralee Crisis Center hotline in their fiscal year
2001. Also that fiscal year, there were 88 women and
children sheltered in the Tralee Crisis Center
safehouse shelter and there were 406 victims helped
through the center.
Domestic violence is occurring behind the closed
doors of homes all over
our community and in
our country, with
women and children
often dying at the
hands of those they
S once loved and trusted.
It is the hope of Execu-
tive Director Kim Da-
vis and the rest of the staff of Tralee Crisis Center,
that each citizen of this community will join in this ef-
fort and speak out against domestic violence.
Across the country, families- and friends of vic-
tims have adopted the purple ribbon to remember
and honor their loved ones who have lost their lives
as a result of domestic violence. Wearing or display-
ing a purple ribbon throughout a community con-
veys a powerful message that there's no place for
domestic violence in the homes, neighborhoods,
workplaces or schools of its citizens. For more infor-
mation about the purple ribbon campaign, or if you
would like to help Tralee Crisis Center as a volun-
teer, please contact the Tralee office at (806)
669-1131.
KAREN McGAHEN, Volunteer Coordinator
Tralee Crisis Center
vigor that we teach them how to drive, or about the dangers of drugs.
And so we tried to recover from 9/11 with a flag and loyalty to a place
called America, but without its dream.
We used instead military power, anti-democratic security measures,
seductive technology, and yet another elephantine bureaucracy—offer-
ing still more temptation for guerillas with simple weapons and no love of
life.
The 9/11 attackers, and the tens of millions around the world who
share some measure of their anger, have only seen our money and our
fist—not the decency, democracy and dream that made America strong
in the first place.
These virtues are still lying in the rubble of the past year. Our job is to
recover and revive them, share them, and become once more a model
rather than a target. Only then will we be both safe and free.
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