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Does new law legalize open carry?
Columns and Blogs Comments May 07, 2013 9:00pmBeginning July 1, Arkansas citizens will be cable to carry a handgun openly almost anywhere. That’s how various gun-rights advocacy groups interpret Act 746, passed last month by the state...
Good schools build thriving communities
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: May 06, 2013 9:00pmOver 40 years ago, my husband and I settled into our first home on West Orlando Street in Pine Bluff. For ambitious 20-somethings, locating a half block from the newly built Edgewood Elementary...
Bouncing ball politics
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: May 06, 2013 8:32pmIf you are driving along and suddenly see a big red rubber ball come bouncing out into the street, you might want to put your foot on the brake pedal, because a small child may well come running...
Tiptoeing through reader comments
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: May 04, 2013 10:00pmAt the risk of painting myself a lemming, I like to read online reviewers’ comments. I use them as research in buying decisions. I also use them as a temperature gauge for public sentiment.
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Changing the terms on term limits
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: May 04, 2013 10:00pmIn 1992, Arkansas voters approved one of the country’s strictest legislative term limits laws: three two-year terms in the state House and two four-year terms in the Senate. Next November, they’ll...
Stay Out of Syria
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: May 03, 2013 9:00pmWith the Iraq war behind us and our departure from Afghanistan underway, the United States could be entering a well-earned respite from fighting. But even before peace can take hold, hawks are...
Changing the terms on term limits
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: May 03, 2013 8:29pmIn 1992, Arkansas voters approved one of the country’s strictest legislative term limits laws: three two-year terms in the state House and two four-year terms in the Senate. Next November, they’ll...
New solutions for Pine Bluff’s economy
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: May 03, 2013 8:27pmNonfarm payroll employment, the broadest economic indicator, has contracted in greater Pine Bluff during the current expansion, a troubling metric. The National Bureau of Economic Research, a...
The art of the impossible
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: May 01, 2013 10:00pmSomeone called politics “the art of the possible.” But, in the era of the modern welfare state, politics is largely the art of the impossible.
Those people morbid enough to keep track of...
Fairer taxes on wealthy, corporations will end budget crisis
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Apr 30, 2013 9:00pmOver the years, I’ve seen the Washington budget debate from a lot of angles — as a small business owner, public school teacher and local government official — and any way you look at it, we need...