Columns/Opinions

“Oh what a tangled web we weave”

Big media is the master of misconception. They will lead one to believe they are only reporting the facts; actually they are lying by omission. The (big media) leave out important facts so they can sway the general public in the manner they want. Case and point: Hillary Clinton was giving a speech in Cleveland and started coughing and continued for at least four minutes. Ari Melber (MSNBC News Anchor) described it as the worst coughing t he had every seen. So what did MSNBC news report? They simply quit lming so as not to put Clinton in a bad light and tried to hide any health concerns the public might have about her. Another example is Donald Trump`s visit to an African-American church in Detroit, the general opinion of everyone was that it was going to be a disaster. There was a crew there to lm it but slowly Trump won over the group.

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In the summer of 1832, James Bowie traveled to Natchez on business and while there got word from home in Texas that the Mexican army commander in Nacogdoches, José de las Piedras, had demanded all residents in his area of command must surrender their arms, Latino and Anglo alike. Bowie immediately headed home to San Antonio. By this time, Antonio López de Santa Anna was president of Mexico, and most of the residents of Texas had actually supported his coup. The Texas citizens, Latino and Anglo, began almost immediately to become disgruntled by the laws this new Mexican government passed between 1830 and 1832 concerning the state of Coahuila y Tejas. The laws were actually aimed at the Anglo settlers but affected all the Texican residents. Bowie arrived in early August and joined a delegation to Nacogdoches to protest the order to surrender their weapons.

Date of birth: Oct. 6, 1936

Full name: Billy Don Edwards

Connection to Pittsburg: Born and raised

Family/relatives that live in Pittsburg: My sister, Edgie L. Reeves, still lives in Pittsburg.

Occupation/bio: After serving in the U. S. Army, I was a police officer for Santa Monica College in California. From there, I began a 36-year career as a school bus driver for Santa Monica-Malibu United School District, also in California.)

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