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Officials say
women's health
program is
ready
AUSTIN — Dr. Kyle Janek,
chief of the state Health and Hu-
man Services agency, and Gov.
Rick Perry on Oct. 31 announced a
new state-funded Texas Women’s
Health Program is ready to step in
and deliver services to low-income
women “if Washington cuts off
funding to the Medicaid program.”
“We’ve got the state program
ready to stand up at any time, and
that transition would be seamless
for pa-
tients and
their doc-
tors,”
Janek
said.
Since
2007, the
program
has been
funded
primarily
with fed-
eral Medi-
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Capital to reject
Highlights billions m
Medicaid
dollars in order to cut off funding
to organizations affiliated with
abortion providers in accordance
with a state law passed in 2011.
Perry said that any lawsuit
filed to challenge the state’s ver-
sion of the women’s health pro-
gram would “kill the program, and
would be responsible for denying
these important health services to
the low-income women of Texas.”
Meanwhile, a temporary in-
junction put in effect by an Austin
state district court on Oct. 26 pre-
vents the state from following
through on its “affiliate ban rule”
until Nov. 8, when oral arguments
in a case brought by Planned Par-
enthood will be heard.
Planned Parenthood called the
injunction “a small victory for the
approximately 50,000 Texas
women who rely on Planned Par-
enthood for care through the
Women’s Health Program, which
includes lifesaving breast and cer-
vical cancer screenings, birth con-
trol, and testing for sexually trans-
mitted infections.”
Windstorm concerns aired
Hurricane Sandy’s recent rav-
age of the eastern seaboard reminds
Texans of Hurricanes Rita, Katrina,
Dolly, Ike, Alicia and others. Be-
fore and after mayhem hits, ques-
tions over who pays and who is re-
sponsible for what inevitably arise.
On Nov. 1, the Joint Commit-
tee on Oversight Board of Wind-
storm Insurance met at the Capitol,
hearing testimony from the Texas
Windstorm Insurance Association
(“TWIA”), the Texas Public Fi-
nance Authority, the Texas Depart-
ment of Insurance and the State
Auditor’s Office.
A few of many topics ad-
dressed were TWIA’s reserve fund,
high administration costs, book-
keeping issues, the danger storms
pose to coastal counties, slowness
and other problems with recovery
efforts, and how some coastal prop-
erty owners struggle to pay high
premiums.
TWIA was established by leg-
islative mandate to provide wind
and hail insurance for Texas Gulf
Coast property owners in the event
of catastrophic loss. “We provide
‘basic’ coverage unavailable in tra-
ditional markets for consumers who
might otherwise be left uninsured,”
TWIA’s literature states.
Drought proclamation
continues
Gov. Perry on Nov. 2 renewed
his July 5, 2011, proclamation cer-
tifying that exceptional drought
conditions pose a threat of immi-
nent disaster in specified counties
in Texas.
The renewed proclamation,
good for 30 days, applies to 121 of
the state’s 254 counties.
Disaster relief to counties pop-
ulation under 200,000 and cities
under 50,000 that have suffered
from severe drought and wildfire
may come in the form of federal
See HIGHLIGHTS, Page 5
Lynette
Sowell
My front
porch
Does one voice really count?
Finally, election day! I’m so glad
it’s here. I think I’ll be even gladder
once it’s over. Not that I’ll be happy
with the outcome, just that the in-
evitable is over and done. Sort of like a
root canal.
I’m tired of hearing the truths, un-
truths, the twisted truths from both
sides of the aisle. Quite frankly, it’s
been hard to know which is which.
Fortunately, we haven’t had the deluge
of election day phone calls in my
house.
I’m tired of the media being unbal-
anced. Honestly, I don’t know who to
believe anymore,.
I’m tired of seeing friends put each
other’s opposing views down, slinging
insults to the other’s intelligence. You
know, attacking someone isn’t going to
get them to see things your way. I have
friends with whom I disagree, and we
pretty well agree to do just that.
I’m tired of feeling like the whole
operation is being run by large corpora-
tions. The media and corporations have
been swinging votes both ways for
years. It’s nothing new.
We who don’t take the time to re-
search the truth behind “stories” go
along with the latest wave of outrage
on either side, just like sheep heading
for the edge of a cliff.
Stop, think, research before you
vote, before you think one, the other,
or both are “demonized” by media.
Both major candidates are filthy rich,
more so than most of us. Once you hit
the millions, it’s all ridiculous no mat-
ter how it adds up. Candidates can say
how they’re in touch, and unfortunately
it all comes down to who’s the most
persuasive and charming.
When you’re charmed, you’ll be-
lieve anything. So who’s going to have
the courage to say with their vote,
“Mommy, the Emperor is naked.”
However, the national electoral
college aside, the fact that we get to
vote is one of the things we do best in
our country. Or should do best.
The best part of America is having
See PORCH, Page 5
Being a gentleman dead or even passe"?
Here I am three-quarters of a cen-
tury old and if there’s one thing I’m
sure of it’s that if I fail to be a gentle-
man in the presence of a lady (woman),
my mother will rise out of the grave
and spank me.
Chivalry and gentlemanliness are
dying if not already dead and buried, ft
came about with the liberation of
women several decades back. Now,
that’s not to blame women. Certainly
some women used “lib” as an excuse to
be more assertive and independent, but
a great many men also used it as an ex-
cuse not to act gentlemanly.
I am all for equality of the sexes.
Half a century ago, as a newspaper ed-
itor-publisher, I hired women and paid
them the same salary as men because
no one told me there were two wage
scales, ft seemed to me if someone did a job, then
that job had the same requirements whether a man
or a woman performed them. Thus, I figured the pay
was for performing those duties no
matter the gender of the jobholder.
I can credit that attitude to my late
mother. She would not have consid-
ered herself a libber. As I’ve expressed
many times, the lib movement caught
me off guard. It’s not that I believed
there should be two pay scales but I
was taught to treat people equally. If
someone performed a certain job, it
seemed that the job requirements were
the same whether the position holder
was male or female. So, the pay should
be the same. I’d always done it that
way.
And, while Mother quietly ex-
pressed support for her beliefs, she
was unaware that they were much the
same as women’s liberation espoused.
As a matter of fact, I seriously doubt if
she ever gave lib a thought. Her beliefs were just
based on her sense of fairness. After all, isn’t that
what equality of the sexes is about? It’s assuredly
what being a gentleman is about.
Mother was also a staunch believer in men act-
ing as gentlemen. If questioned on the matter, she
would say that a few women didn’t deserve to be
treated “like a lady” and she wasn’t bashful about
describing such an undeserving female.
And, she didn’t ever comment when I took a
job as a secretary-receptionist.
Say what?
Yep. I had to work to pay my college expenses.
After two years at Sam Houston State, and a year
working to earn more tuition money, I transferred to
the University of Houston and was given a scholar-
ship and a job. The job was secretary-receptionist in
the journalism and graphic arts department. I could
work where I went to school and there were enough
lulls, I could study and do homework.
Naturally, that thing of “certain jobs are for a
certain sex” raised its head.
One morning the department phone rang and I
answered as I was supposed to do: “Journalism and
See WEBB, Page 5
Willis Webb
Webb’s
Threads
Copperas Cove Leader-Press
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