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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...
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...
Reject the spirit of contempt
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Apr 25, 2013 9:00pmMy dad has told the story many times of the day that President Kennedy was shot. Dad was on his way to a college class when someone shared the news and one of his fellow students, not realizing...
Conquering fear to protect freedom
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Apr 25, 2013 7:41pmAccording to a 19th-century composer named Francis Scott Key, the United States is the “land of the free and the home of the brave.” If he were writing those lyrics today, he might add an asterisk...
Immigration gambles
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Apr 24, 2013 9:00pmBritain’s late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said it all when she wrote that the world has “never ceased to be dangerous,” but the West has “ceased to be vigilant.”
Nothing better...
All in the family
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Apr 24, 2013 9:00pmEdith Bunker, where are you now that we need you?
After watching, listening to and reading about the current fiasco surrounding the residency ordinances, one is quickly reminded that racism...