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Editorial: Prescription drug abuse requires coordinated response
Editorials Comments Updated: Apr 20, 2013 10:00pmEditor’s Note: This article is part of a series produced by the Southwest Times Record in Fort Smith. The remaining articles will be published in The Commercial as space permits. The entire series...
Cooperation is the only way up
Editorials Comments Updated: Apr 19, 2013 9:00pmThumb up
Pine Bluff Finance Director Steve Miller was blunt Tuesday when he addressed the City Council’s Ways and Means Committee. “We need money from everywhere,” he told Mayor Debe...
Drunken ruling leads nowhere
Editorials Comments Updated: Apr 18, 2013 9:00pmIn 2011 there were 158 deaths in Arkansas directly attributable to driving while intoxicated. That figure represents more than a quarter of all motor vehicle deaths in the state. As such, it is...
Codifying shifts in public sentiment
Editorials Comments Updated: Apr 17, 2013 9:00pmIn response to recent acts of great violence, the Motion Picture Association of America announced changes Tuesday to its movie rating system, saying the group wants to better inform parents about...
Confluence of historical tides
Editorials Comments Updated: Apr 16, 2013 9:00pmWhen we think about the battles of the American Revolutionary War, most of us probably imagine conflicts somewhere on the eastern seaboard. Places like Lexington and Concord, Saratoga, Yorktown...
Neither elevated nor maintained
Editorials Comments Updated: Apr 15, 2013 9:00pmAs recently reported in The Commercial, the Arkansas State Board of Nursing has closed the nursing program at UAPB after determining that the school’s administrators and faculty members had failed...
Communal seeds for long-term growth
Editorials Comments Updated: Apr 13, 2013 9:00pmThis year has already brought about a number of positive changes to Pine Bluff. While it’s too early to tell whether we’re on the right track, we seem to be finding our way a little better than we...
Why not pay what’s due city?
Editorials Comments Updated: Apr 12, 2013 9:00pmThumb down
The city of Pine Bluff is considering a civil action against the Horizon Foods poultry processing plant, 2201 W. Second Ave., in an effort to collect $26,620.50 in unpaid sewer...
To help wife beat addiction, don’t enable her
Editorials Comments Updated: Apr 14, 2013 1:00amQ. My wife is addicted to pain killers, but she denies it. She misses work, gets prescriptions from several doctors and may be buying pills on the street. I’ve been ignoring the situation, doing...
School closures hit a community
Editorials Comments Updated: Apr 11, 2013 9:19pmAltheimer-Martin Elementary School will be recommended for closure on June 30 because of a falling enrollment. It is the third public school in Jefferson County set to close at the end of the...