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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...
Murder in plain sight
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Apr 30, 2013 9:00pmThere is a mass murderer on trial in Philadelphia for what could be one of the most gruesome serial killing sprees in recent history. The grand jury report reads like a horror movie as it...
Freedom of Information advocates won most legislative battles
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Apr 29, 2013 9:00pmLike many other people, journalists breathe a sigh of relief when the Arkansas General Assembly adjourns. Lawmakers may take offense at such statements, and yet they often complain, when a major...
Is thinking obsolete?
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Apr 29, 2013 9:00pmWhile it is not possible to answer all the e-mails and letters from readers, many are thought-provoking, whether those thoughts are positive or negative.
An e-mail from one young man simply...
Martian Bigfoot joins NRA
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Apr 27, 2013 11:12pmFans of the classic sci-fi drama, the X-Files, will recall the poster hanging in Fox Mulder’s office. It showed a grainy gray disk hovering above a wooded horizon. The words “I want to believe”...
There’s a hole in the bucket — and the overpass
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Apr 27, 2013 11:10pmRemember that old folk song, “There’s a Hole in the Bucket”?
In the song, “Henry” tells his “dear Liza” about a hole in their bucket, and no matter how she asks him to fix it, he always...
Successful session? Only time will tell
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Apr 27, 2013 12:05amIt’s over. It ran a month beyond what the authors of the 1874 Arkansas Constitution thought would be necessary to get the job done — 90 days, they reckoned, ought to do it. There was no Medicaid...