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Shooting cat was needless act
Letters Comments Updated: May 17, 2013 9:35pmEditor, The Commercial
This letter is addressed to the person who shot my cat.
I realize that not everyone likes cats and dogs, and the choice to have a pet is a personal one. I would...
Enforce handicapped parking laws
Letters Comments Updated: May 17, 2013 9:34pmEditor, The Commercial
I would like to know why the Pine Bluff Police does not enforce the handicap parking laws. I have noticed a lot of people that are not handicapped and do not have...
Estes leaves roomy casket
Editorials Comments Updated: May 16, 2013 9:00pmIn Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Marc Anthony gives the murdered emperor’s funeral oration. Most high school kids can recite at least a line or two.
In it Anthony says in part, “The evil that...
Plugging leaks the right way
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: May 16, 2013 9:00pmWhen it comes to prosecutors’ investigations of leaks, you can count on journalists to dispense with impartiality and scream bloody murder. Upon learning that the Justice Department had seized the...
Two schools marry while one gets a divorce
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: May 16, 2013 9:00pmOn Monday, the State Board of Education agreed to let the 357-student Bradley School District merge voluntarily with the not-that-much-bigger Emerson-Taylor School District. It’s a marriage of...
Neither present nor future
Editorials Comments Updated: May 15, 2013 9:00pmIt’s time for the foolishness to end. At least that’s what Pine Bluff City Council member Bill Brumett thinks with regard to the stalemate created by three of his peers on the council: Thelma...
Looking back — and forward
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: May 15, 2013 9:00pmA hundred years ago, anyone who might have predicted in 1913 the monumental, man-made catastrophes that would occur in the rest of the 20th century would have been considered warped, if not...
Tuition
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: May 15, 2013 9:00pmI repeat myself, intentionally:
In a column several weeks ago, when the General Assembly was in session, I mentioned sharing a luncheon table with a university official, a vice president for...
Bargains that aren’t cheap
Editorials Comments Updated: May 14, 2013 9:00pmIt’s the kind of industrial disaster that the United States has largely relegated to the annals of history, but for the workers of Bangladesh, the terror is present and common. As has been widely...
Facing facts about illegal immigration
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: May 14, 2013 9:00pmIf rain is pouring and you don’t want to get wet, you have a few choices. You can stay inside. You can put on a raincoat, grab an umbrella and brave the torrent. Or you can step outside and demand...