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PB needs a 2013 Wanda Buckingham
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Apr 01, 2013 10:21pmCommunity involvement is central to the approach adopted by your police department in the ongoing effort to reduce crime and improve our city’s image. Your continued interest and involvement...
Two independent studies pinpoint risks for steel mill incentives
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Apr 01, 2013 10:14pmHaving a major industrial project in your backyard can be good or bad so it’s well worth studying the potential impact while the project is still in formulation.
Certainly, we’re glad to...
Did the budget really balance? No
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Mar 30, 2013 9:20pmThe week before last, members of the U.S. House of Representatives voted for a plan by U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan that they say would balance the budget in 10 years.
Well, yes and no. Mostly no....
Bumpy-headed natural criminals
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Mar 30, 2013 9:18pmThe scientific process is one that requires equal doses of hopefulness and skepticism. Scientists have to enthusiastically proffer theories as to how things work and then try to figure out every...
Irony in the Arkansas General Assembly
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Mar 28, 2013 9:01pmThe walk from her desk to the well of the House took the gentlewoman from West Memphis nine seconds, not enough time to tinker yet again with the remarks she had drafted the weekend previous, then...
Don’t pass a law unless it is needed
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Mar 28, 2013 9:01pmState legislators generally do a good job of considering the issues, and I’m not one who bashes them. But we’ve reached the point in the session when I am looking forward to them going home....
The truth
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Mar 27, 2013 9:00pmThis is in response to the article in the Commercial on Friday, March 22, 2013, and the Editorial on Sunday, March 24, 2013.
Does it strike anyone else as odd that after six council meetings...
No blank check for criminals
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Mar 26, 2013 9:00pmSome people should not be trusted with access to firearms. On that point almost everyone agrees, the only debate being where to draw the line. But no one thinks that if the Unabomber had his...
Reforming versus repealing ObamaCare
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Mar 26, 2013 9:00pmColleague Steve Brawner wrote an excellent column last week on Arkansas’ bipartisan Medicaid fix. His point is one worth highlighting and further exploring.
He observed that the Arkansas...
March on Washington commemoration must focus on black unemployment
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Mar 25, 2013 9:00pmIt is always important to look back on historical moments in history and remember how important it was and reflect on those who made it possible. But it is also to continue to have a forward-...