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What: Summer reading
program
When: Signups are open
June 1-15
Where: Cooke County
Library, 200 S. Weaver St.
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Despite the inflammatory mixture of fact,
fear and lies that has woven its way deeply
into America’s body politic, there are few
signs of significantly shifting attitudes in
the heartland on who should be elected the
nation’s president in 2020.
The critical states that gave President
Donald Trump the margin of Electoral
College victory in 2016 are again uncertain,
as thorny issues such as tariff-induced
trade wars, immigration contretemps
and the Mueller investigation have rattled
voters.
Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Iowa and
Pennsylvania — with their collective 70
electoral votes — could again decide if
Trump is given a second term or if the
nation moves to whomever the Democrats
select from a field of 23 wannabe
challengers.
It depends on who you talk to in those
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Summer reading to
start June 1 at library
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election cycle.
In Oklahoma, where Trump won
overwhelmingly in 2016, Tahlequah
resident Patrick Parker said it is hard to
trust either side at this point. He described
Trump as the “Jar Jar Binks of presidents,”
a reference to the fictional Star Wars
character who was both loved and hated.
Texas could be in play
Midterm election results hint Texas
could be in play in the 2020 presidential
election. Former Democratic Congressman
Beto O’Rouke lost by less than 3 percentage
points to incumbent Republican Sen. Ted
Cruz in a statewide race, and Democrats
flipped two GOP seats in the state’s
congressional delegation. The results
showed that rural and small-town Texas
is still solid red, but the growing urban
centers are blue and their suburban
neighbors trending that way.
O’Rouke is striving to leverage his
noteworthy Senate effort into a longshot
bid for president. A Robert Kennedy look-
alike, he stresses the need for national
unity to heal the fractured American
political landscape.
Dara Llorens, 49, of Palestine, agrees
the country needs fixing, and she doesn’t
care if it is a Republican or Democrat who
leads the charge. “We need to unite,” she
said. “There’s too much infighting. We
need to stop these investigations and
work together with what we have moving
forward.”
The child of a Mexican immigrant
father and an American mother, Llorens
opposes a border wall, favors immigration
reform and wants expanded education
opportunities for the disadvantaged,
including fixing the student loan debt
problem.
“We’re a first-world nation and college
has become an unattainable luxury to the
majority of people,” she said. “In Mexico,
and humanities at North Central
Texas College. As a professor,
Jones said he had to bear the cost
of going “to college and graduate
school.”
“So I carry about three times
more student loan debt than
your average student and it’s
crippling,” Jones said. “If it wasn’t
for my income-based repayment
program, I don’t know how I would
Talking openly about politics can
oftentimes ruffle people’s feathers,
but that didn’t stop Cooke County
voters from candidly discussing
their views.
The Register asked three people
their thoughts on college debt and
free college tuition for the latest
Pulse of the Voters installment.
Here’s what they had to say:
James C. Jones, a 39-year-old
Gainesville resident, described
himself as voting Democrat but
said he is “further to the left than
the Democrats.”
Jones said he teaches history
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survive.”
Jones said he doesn’t know how
people struggling to find work
seem to make it, while adding
there has to be something done
to ease the burden on those with
student debt.
“The public student loan
forgiveness program is a good
start, but I think it needs to be
expanded to include people in
other job types who don’t make a
lot of money but still had to take
on a lot of loans,” Jones said. “And
free public college and university
education is a must. We have to get
there eventually.”
Jones said while it’s not a
popular opinion, he thinks taking
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Few signs of shifts ahead of next year's presidential primaries
states.
Depressed com and soybean markets
could make a difference in rural areas,
which went all in for Trump last time, some
say. Whether that concern is sufficient to
offset the perceptions of an otherwise rosy
economy is anyone’s guess.
Another important factor is the political
tenets of the eventual Democratic nominee.
They range from far left to moderate
among the aspirants.
These are general impressions of the
current political landscape in more than
20 Rust Belt, Midwest and Southern states
served by CNHI newspapers that have
participated in the company’s periodic
“Pulse of the Voters” project since the 2016
election.
Reporters walked precincts, knocked
on doors, met with voters in their living
rooms, their kitchens and elsewhere,
engaging them in conversation about their
views heading into another presidential
Cooke County Library’s summer reading
programs are set to begin next week.
Signups will take place Saturday, June 1,
through Saturday, June 15, for “A Universe of
Stories,” the theme for this year’s programs for
all ages. Children and adults are welcome to
participate and registration is free, according
to a press release from the library.
There are three different programs —
one each for children, teens and adults. The
children’s program is designed for ages 2-11
and the teen
program is
for ages 12-17.
Each one
has different
reading
requirements
and prizes.
The Friends
of the Cooke
County Library
are providing
three Amazon
Kindle Fire HD
8s to be given
away at the end of the reading programs. One
adult, one teen and one child will be able to
win. Every time a patron uses a Cooke County
library card during the six-week Summer
Reading program, their card number will go
into the appropriate age raffle. The drawings
for the Kindle Fire winners will take place July
18.
Summer reading programs run June 1
through July 16. For more detailed information
regarding prizes and reading requirements,
visit the Kids tab on the Cooke County Library
website at www.cookecountylibrary.org or call
the library at 940-668-5530.
The library is at 200 S. Weaver St. in
Gainesville.
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Einselen, Sarah. Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 187, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 25, 2019, newspaper, May 25, 2019; Gainesville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1324496/m1/1/: accessed July 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Cooke County Library.