Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 127, No. 12, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 27, 2013 Page: 3 of 14
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 27. 2013 Bajllg COUntll El
STATE CAPITAL HIGHLIGHTS
MY TAKE ON TECH
AG Holder files suit against Texas voter ID law
AUSTIN- said, “Voter IDs have nothing to student groups.
Erasing old data
By Ed Sterling
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
The U.S. De-
partment of
Justice on Aug.
22 announced
it would file a
lawsuit against
the State of
Texas over the
state’s voter
photo identifi-
cation law, passed as Senate Bill
14 in 2011.
In filing the lawsuit, the federal
agency said it seeks a declaration
that SB 14 violates Section 2 of
the Voting Rights Act (non-dis-
crimination requirement) and the
voting guarantees of the Four-
teenth (due process and equal
protection) and Fifteenth (right
to vote) amendments to the U.S.
Constitution.
According to a news release
by U.S. Attorney General Eric
Holder, head of the Department
of Justice, “The United States’
complaint contends that SB 14
was adopted with the purpose,
and will have the result, of deny-
ing or abridging the right to vote
on account of race, color or mem-
bership in a language minority
group.”
Gov. Rick Perry and Texas
Attorney General Greg Abbott
reacted with releases of their own.
Perry said, “The filing of endless
litigation in an effort to obstruct
the will of the people of Texas
is what we have come to expect
from Attorney General Eric
Holder and President Obama. We
will continue to defend the integ-
rity of our elections against this
administration’s blatant disregard
for the 10th Amendment.”
Abbott, on behalf of the state
government, has filed 25 law-
suits against the Obama admin-
istration over a variety of issues
such as voter ID, redistricting,
environmental protection and the
Affordable Care Act, which some
refer to as Obama Care. Within
a much longer statement, Abbott
250 AREA JOBS
do with race and they are free to
anyone who needs one.”
Perry sets voting date
Gov. Perry took the official step
of proclaiming Nov. 5 as Election
Day for the nine proposed consti-
tutional amendments approved by
legislators last spring.
Texans who go to polls with
proper identification in accor-
dance with the state’s voter iden-
tification law will be able to vote
“yes” or “no” on amendments
dealing with topics ranging from
property tax exemptions and
municipal charters to funding for
the state water plan and judicial
conduct.
Job count grows
The Texas Workforce Com-
mission on Aug. 16 reported that
the Texas economy added 19,900
seasonally adjusted total nonfarm
jobs in July for a total of 293,000
jobs added since July 2012.
Also, Texas’ seasonally adjust-
ed unemployment rate held steady
in July at 6.5 percent. Texas’
unemployment rate remained
below the nation’s July unem-
ployment rate of 7.4 percent.
“As of July,” said Texas
Workforce Commission Chair-
man Andres Alcantar, “Texas
has maintained a positive annu-
al growth rate for 39 straight
months.”
Testing scores improve
Education Commissioner
Michael Williams on Aug. 21
announced that 2013 composite
score for all Texas students taking
the ACT college admission test
hit a new high of 20.9 according
to the testing company.
In addition, the composite
scores for Texas White, Hispan-
ic/Latino and African-American
students are at all-time highs,
matching or exceeding national
composite scores in each of those
“Our state’s ongoing commit-
ment to rigor in the classroom is
clearly evident in these national
results,” said Commissioner Wil-
liams. “In the coming years, the
challenge will be in maintain-
ing this momentum, which has
provided a strong foundation of
success for all students while also
offering all students greater flex-
ibility to make course choices.”
Measles alert
Texas Department of State
Health Services on Aug. 16 issued
a health alert and announced that
six cases of measles had been
confirmed in the last month,
bringing the total to 11 cases
confirmed for the year.
State health officials have
asked health care providers to be
on the lookout for potential expo-
sures, particularly in the North
Texas area.
While no cases were reported
in 2012, six cases were reported
in 2011, the agency reported, and
said, “vaccination even shortly
before or after exposure may pre-
vent the disease or lessen the
symptoms.”
DPS to increase
patrols
The Texas Department of
Public Safety (DPS) last week
announced a planned increase in
patrols through Sept. 9, including
the Labor Day weekend.
DPS troopers will focus on
high-risk locations at times when
alcohol-related crashes are most
frequent.
During the extended Labor
Day period last year, troopers
made 1,879 DWI arrests, 24,779
speeding citations, 3,890 seat
belt/child safety seat citations,
4,062 no-insurance tickets, 1,238
fugitive arrests, 895 felony arrests
and 889 drug arrests during rou-
tine patrol operations.
Greenville’s good news could impact Rains Co.
By BONNIE BURCH
Rains County Leader staff
The good news that Greenville
received on August 21 will most
likely impact Rains County.
On that day, Gov. Rick Perry
announced that Fritz Industries,
Inc. will open a manufacturing
and office facility in the former
Newell-Rubbermaid plant, creat-
ing 250 jobs and $37.5 million in
capital investment. The state will
provide $800,000 through the
Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF).
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Fritz manufactures products
used in drilling and cementing
and stimulation fluids that are
critical to oilfield service compa-
nies’ daily operations.
The company also conducts
research and development to
improve productivity in new oil
and gas wells and extend the
lives of existing wells. Employ-
ees will fill production, supply
chain, quality assurance, engi-
neering, maintenance, infor-
mation technology and human
resource positions.
Greenville Mayor Steve Reid
said the good news provides a
win-win situation by putting a
one-million-square-foot vacant
facility back in operation and
offering a large number of jobs
to residents in local and sur-
rounding areas.
POINT
City Council
to hold special
session tonight
The Point City Council will
hold a special session tonight,
Tuesday, August 27, at 6:45 p.m.
at the Point City Hall at which
time the following agenda items
will be discussed and/or acted
upon:
I. Call to Order.
II. Citizens’ participation, by
written request, limited to three
minutes.
III. Section I: General Council
Items.
1. Add Ted Romine to the sig-
nature card at the bank.
2. Discuss and take action
regarding engineering services
for TXCDBG.
3. Discuss/take action regard-
ing administrative services for
TXCDBG.
4. Discuss policies and proce-
dures for mayor.
5. Discuss Point Police
Department policies, procedures
and performance.
Executive session, if neces-
sary.
By JOHN KELLY
Rains County Leader Contributor
The Newell-Rubbermaid plant
closed in mid-2011, thus putting
many Hunt and Rains County
residents out of work.
Perry said, “Texas continues
to be a national example for
creating jobs and opportunity,
thanks to our low taxes, smart
regulations, fair courts and skilled
workforce. This TEF investment
in Fritz Industries will create
hundreds of jobs in Greenville
[and surrounding areas], pump
millions in capital into the local
economy and further strengthen
our state’s economy.”
TEF was created by the state
Legislature in 2001 to help
ensure the growth of Texas’ busi-
nesses and create more jobs.
Information on job applica-
tion and a planned opening date
have not been announced.
(Some info taken from the
Greenville Herald-Banner.)
With all the fuss lately in the
news about people who might be
looking at your data as you send
it to and fro, let us not forget
about the data that sits on your
various devices like computers
and tablets, and even phones.
The problem today is that
companies have found many
ways to help you get data onto
those wonderful devices, but vir-
tually no easy and effective ways
to safely and completely purge
personal data from them.
In a perfect world, all devic-
es you buy that can store data
would have a way that is reliable
and effective for the complete
and total removal of all personal
information permanently. But we
are far short of living in a perfect
world in this aspect, unfortu-
nately.
Another issue facing consum-
ers today is the danger of sending
in a personal device for repair
that may contain personal infor-
mation. Simply erasing it may
not be effective for its complete
removal. Of course, destroying
or removing the data storage part
(such as the disk drive) would no
doubt void your warranty, so that
is unrealistic. In addition, most
tablet computers don’t have disk
drives, so you cannot remove
anything easily before returning
them for repair or replacement.
One way I have addressed the
personal information dilemma
for myself is to store virtually
all of my personal data on 400
to 600 Gigabyte external USB
drives that are encrypted. Very
little unencrypted personal data
resides on my computer or lap-
top, so if one of them is sent
in for repair, or is recycled or
stolen, the amount of personal
unencrypted data available on
that system is tiny.
I can safely recycle any of my
external USB drives without risk
of losing personal information
because the drive is completely
encrypted. Thus the personal
data is unavailable to anyone
who cannot supply the correct
decryption password.
Encryption is the act of turn-
ing useful and relevant data into a
format that cannot be deciphered
without the use of a passcode or
key, typically not too unlike what
you use when you sign up to
access a financial account online.
Without the proper key, the data
is just a huge jumble of garbage,
of no value to anyone who can-
not supply the correct key.
Hopefully, some computer
makers in the future will make
it easier to recycle their comput-
ers without fear of personal data
being compromised. They may
do that by supplying a special
CD that one could load into his/
her computer that would com-
pletely erase all the disk drives
in the computer using proven and
reliable disk-erasing techniques.
If a computer could keep the
operating system and control
programs apart from all the user
The ComputerMan
will open the new location at
319 N. Texas St. in Emory
on September 3rd
Hours: 9-5
The ComputerMan has been selling and servicing
computers in Rains County since 1994. In 1999,
we closed the store to work from our home office.
Due to increased demand for services, we have
outgrown the home office. We are currently relo-
cating to our new office at 319 N. Texas Street in
Emory (on the square, near Emory City Hall).
We plan to open the doors on September 3rd. Until
then, we will continue service as usual.
We look forward to seeing all our old friends as
well as all our new friends. Thank you for your
continued support.
Chuck Witt, Wesley Rawle and Chris Witt
903-473-3640 (new number)
data, it might be fairly easy for
a program on the computer to
securely erase the user data and
leave the computer basically the
way it came from the factory.
But that is not the case today for
most computers.
If that method worked prop-
erly, one could run that special
erasure program to erase the user
data and then sell the computer,
or give the computer to a family
member or charity without fear
of personal information being
retrieved later.
Probably the best way to pro-
tect your data if you have to send
in a computer for repair is to do
what I do and use separate USB
drives with the data encrypted.
The computer can be sent in for
repair, but without the external
USB drive going with it. But
that is something that only an
advanced user might find work-
able.
As a bonus of using exter-
nal encrypted USB drives, if the
computer company replaces the
broken computer with a new one,
with the new computer not hav-
ing any of your old data on it,
having one’s data on the exter-
nal USB drive that you did not
send in with the computer would
mean that the data was not lost,
and one could access it once
again after the needed programs
were reinstalled on the new com-
puter and the USB drive was
reconnected.
However, that only would
work with laptops and desktops,
because most tablets and phones
do not have options for external
encrypted data drives to be con-
nected.
Sadly, there are no easy solu-
tions to protecting one’s personal
information that resides on most
computers today. The burden is
on the user to do that for oneself.
Hopefully in the future, that situ-
ation will change as computer
makers realize the dangers and
find ways to assist consumers in
protecting their personal informa-
tion when retiring or recycling an
existing computer, or sending it
in for repair. When that will actu-
ally happen is anyone’s guess.
(You can contact John at
mytakeontech@ gmail. com.)
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Hill, Earl Clyde, Jr. Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 127, No. 12, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 27, 2013, newspaper, August 27, 2013; Emory, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth823177/m1/3/?q=%22Places+-+United+States+-+Texas+-+Rains+County%22: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rains County Library.