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Easter customs born anew
Editorials Comments Updated: Mar 30, 2013 9:16pmIn the First Epistle to the Corinthians, the Apostle Paul (writing with Sosthenes) provides the earliest account of the Resurrection of Jesus. Written in approximately 54 AD, the text is...
No blame to affix
Editorials Comments Updated: Mar 29, 2013 9:00pmThumb up
Pine Bluff’s St. Joseph Catholic School will close at the end of the school year. The thumb up is for a good run and a tradition of good students and teachers who care.
With...
Cities address common woes
Editorials Comments Updated: Mar 28, 2013 9:01pm“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
–Margaret Meade, Author,...
Improved but not laudable
Editorials Comments Updated: Mar 27, 2013 9:00pmIt’s interesting what passes for “tremendous progress” these days, but that’s exactly how Arkansas Lt. Gov. Mark Darr characterized the state’s movement on a recent measure of state government...
Ruling not consistent with Constitution
Editorials Comments Updated: Mar 26, 2013 9:00pmA recent report by the Arkansas News Bureau stated that an Arkansas judge turned down a request by a group of death-row inmates for access to information about the drugs the state plans to use to...
Frilling bluster degrades proceeding
Editorials Comments Updated: Mar 25, 2013 9:00pmHerpetologists know them as Chlamydosaurus Kingii. Everybody else just calls them frilled lizards. The frilled lizard is an Australian reptile that spends most of its life in trees. Larger adults...
Ruby Beavers
Editorials Comments Updated: Mar 25, 2013 6:57pmHERINGTON, Kan. — Ruby Edna Thomas Beavers, 86, of Herington, Kan., formerly of Pine Bluff died Saturday, March 23, 2013.
Funeral arrangements will be announced by Fuller Hale-South Funeral...
Traditions joined in redemption
Editorials Comments Updated: Mar 23, 2013 9:00pmWhile it is a fact often overlooked in local history, Pine Bluff had the first Jewish congregation in the state of Arkansas. As the annual Passover celebration is upon us, it’s fitting that...
Council’s conscience suddenly ignited
Editorials Comments Updated: Mar 23, 2013 9:15pmFor more than a decade, the city government of Pine Bluff has been locked in a series of grudge matches, the only “release” from which has been a series of scandals, investigations and...
Focus on action, not distractions
Editorials Comments Updated: Mar 22, 2013 11:13pmThumb up
Alderman George Stepps filed a complaint Tuesday against Pine Bluff Mayor Debe Hollingsworth, asking Prosecuting Attorney S. Kyle Hunter to determine if evidence warrants the first...