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Council enacts empty threat

Updated: May 22, 2013 10:00pm

Monday’s meeting of the Pine Bluff City Council exemplifies why things are as they are in this community. Inspection and Zoning Director Robert Tucker and his team had proposed an evidence-based,...

Tornado victims need our help

Updated: May 21, 2013 9:00pm

Fighting power then and now

Updated: May 20, 2013 9:08pm

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Access: We have it good in the U.S.

Updated: Mar 14, 2013 10:00pm

As 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

Updated: Mar 13, 2013 10:00pm

Thank 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

Updated: Mar 12, 2013 10:00pm

It’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

Updated: Mar 11, 2013 10:00pm

Ralph 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

Updated: Mar 09, 2013 10:00pm

The 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

Updated: Mar 08, 2013 10:00pm

The 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

Updated: Mar 07, 2013 10:00pm

Charles 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

Updated: Mar 06, 2013 10:00pm

As 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

Updated: Mar 05, 2013 10:00pm

As 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...

Zeal overrides great progress

Updated: Mar 04, 2013 11:12pm

A popular anthem for Women’s Suffrage contained the lines:

From the daughters of the nation

Bursts a cry of indignation

Breathes a sigh of consecration

In a sacred cause....

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