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Concerned adults: the abused child's only defense
LELAND ACKER chreporter@mediactr.com
      Martina McBride is one of those artists who seems to sing a lot of socially conscious songs, one of which is called "Concrete Angel." The first time I heard "Concrete Angel," I was caught off-guard. The song chronicles the plight of a young, neglected and abused girl whose abuse goes unnoticed o...
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HIGH POINTS from El Camino Real
CHRIS DAVIS elcaminoreal@consolidated.net
      Yards and pastures along El Camino Real are beginning to green up with warmer temperatures and few good rains. Lawn mowers were busy all weekend trying to stay ahead of the fresh crop of weeds that are covering many of our yards.
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SCENE in Passing
MARIE WHITEHEAD mwhitehead@mediactr.com
      The highly successful 59th annual Cherokee County Junior Livestock Show is now history and can be tucked away with our memories of those earlier ones. It began without us in 1949. We arrived a year later. Whatever our memories, and they are many, one person stands out.
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TALKING POINTS
Texas practices 'Gotcha Education'
BY DR. JIM LARGENT
      Let me ask you a couple of questions. If you go to college and over the course of a year you make nine As and one D, are you an "A" student or a "D" student? Well, according to the Texas Education Agency and the No Child Left Behind Act, you are a "D" student.
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