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[email protected] VOLUME 65 NUMBER 20 SERVING THE BLACK COMMUNITY WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR SINCE 1947 January 10 - 16, 2013 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 8th Annual Symposium Senator West says budget surplus should address state's needs exceeds the roughly $81 bil- total some $208 billion. The lion the Legislature estab- comptroller also announced lished for the current 2012- that by the end of fiscal 13 biennium by 12.4 per- 2013, the economic stabi- Ambassador Andrew Young Dr. Keri Day Dr. Zan Holmes, Jr. cent, with some $96.2 bil- lization fund - aka the Rainy lion to be collected in taxes Day Fund - should have The 8th Annual MLK Symposium will be held January 21, 2013 at The Dallas City and fees. Texas consumers some $8.8 billion tucked Performance Hall, located across the street from Booker T. Washington High School, Senator Royce West are responsible for 64 per- away. It is estimated that by cent of those revenues the end of FY15, that the on the southwest side of the intersection between Routh Street and Flora Street.. Monday, January 7, 2013, which arrived via the sales Rainy Day Fund will have It will explore the achievement and legacy of Rev.