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Training students to fill needed jobs
Editorials Comments Updated: Mar 15, 2013 10:00pmThumb up
Seeing a real need, Southeast Arkansas College will play a major role in a training initiative for jobs in the manufacturing industry, the college’s board of trustees was told...
Access: We have it good in the U.S.
Editorials Comments Updated: Mar 14, 2013 10:00pmAs previously noted, this is “Sunshine Week,” the annual commemoration of governmental transparency laws and a free press. During this time we have lauded the right to access the records of...
FOIA getting ‘supported’ into oblivion
Editorials Comments Updated: Mar 13, 2013 10:00pmThank goodness the legislators from western Arkansas and across the state let us know they support Arkansas’ vanguard Freedom of Information Act. Routinely they begin conversations saying, “I...
Open hearts, empty seats
Editorials Comments Updated: Mar 12, 2013 10:00pmIt’s a shame when words of wisdom are repeated into banal platitude. Perhaps no historical figure suffers this injury more often than Mahatma Gandhi. This fact notwithstanding, we owe it to...
Casting off governmental darkness
Editorials Comments Updated: Mar 11, 2013 10:00pmRalph Waldo Emerson once wrote, “Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.” It is in this spirit that we rip back the veil of secret government as we celebrate national...
Media and public both have roles in oversight
Editorials Comments Updated: Mar 09, 2013 10:00pmThe caller on the other end of the phone line was near exacerbation. He had been given the run-around by government officials, the very people he put in office to represent him, and his quest for...
Shaking our head over budget woes
Editorials Comments Updated: Mar 08, 2013 10:00pmThe donnybrook over Jefferson County budgets for the sheriff’s department, adult jail and juvenile detention center has gone on far too long. We know from reading state law that the county must...
Gazing into abyssal television history
Editorials Comments Updated: Mar 07, 2013 10:00pmCharles Dickens opens A Tale of Two Cities with one of the most memorable lines in literature: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of...
Generosity as communal faith
Editorials Comments Updated: Mar 06, 2013 10:00pmAs the old saying goes, it’s great when a plan comes together. That’s exactly what happened recently with the a fundraising campaign to benefit the Southeast Arkansas College Foundation. As...
Government by morality alone
Editorials Comments Updated: Mar 05, 2013 10:00pmAs the newly ensconced Republican majority in the state legislature looks for ever-expanding ways to assert its dominion, the people of Arkansas face a number of perils. Pandering to the extremes...