{"id":187752,"date":"2012-05-13T16:45:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T21:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=187752"},"modified":"2012-05-14T15:58:40","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T20:58:40","slug":"local-elections-being-held-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=187752","title":{"rendered":"TJC Bond Passage Tops Election Outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=188060\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-188060\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/05\/thumb_tjc-sign-150x111.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_tjc-sign\" width=\"150\" height=\"111\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-188060\" \/><\/a>EAST TEXAS \u2014 Voters pass a $25 million bond issue for construction of a new nursing and health sciences building at Tyler Junior College. In Saturday\u2019s election, the proposal won 54.82% of the vote. TJC President Dr. Mike Metke says, \u201cI think it\u2019s a victory for really everyone who lives here. It\u2019s gonna mean those good jobs will be filled by local people, and we\u2019ll grow some of our own future nurses and health professionals.\u201d The other half of the $50 million project will be funded by donations and student fees. Metke expects ground to be broken by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>In the race for Tyler City Council District 2, Darryl Bowdre took 51.87% of the ballots cast to prevail over Sarah Coats and Charles Burns. The current office holder, Donald Sanders, must leave the council due to term limits. Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smith-county.com\/Government\/Departments\/Elections\/Default.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.smith-county.com\/Government\/Departments\/Elections\/Default.aspx<\/a> for complete results around the county. <\/p>\n<p>Unofficial election results for the City of Longview show Jay Dean, John Sims, and Gary Smith as winners of the races for Longview Mayor, City Council District 1, and City Council District 2, respectively. You can visit <a href=\"http:\/\/longviewtexas.gov\/city-elections\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/longviewtexas.gov\/city-elections<\/a> for complete results of the Longview city elections. And another town has decided to allow liquor sales, according to KETK. Voters in Rusk passed a proposition to that effect with around 250 votes in favor and around 160 against. Three years ago, Rusk residents had voted to allow beer and wine sales. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST TEXAS \u2014 Voters pass a $25 million bond issue for construction of a new nursing and health sciences building at Tyler Junior College. In Saturday\u2019s election, the proposal won 54.82% of the vote. TJC President Dr. Mike Metke says, \u201cI think it\u2019s a victory for really everyone who lives here. It\u2019s gonna mean those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=187752\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TJC Bond Passage Tops Election Outcomes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 07:27:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187752"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188417,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187752\/revisions\/188417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}