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Facing lopsided incarceration rates

Updated: May 23, 2013 10:00pm

The English historian Thomas Fuller once wrote, “Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of the face can...

Council enacts empty threat

Updated: May 22, 2013 10:00pm

Tornado victims need our help

Updated: May 21, 2013 9:00pm

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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....

First half is over; let’s get serious

Updated: Mar 02, 2013 11:00pm

Frustration seems to have hit some people at the Arkansas Legislature last week. The sniping between the governor and lieutenant governor over an action that, ultimately, made no...

Welcome to Dr. Alexander

Updated: Mar 02, 2013 6:52pm

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The background of Laurence B. Alexander, who was unanimously approved Thursday by the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees as the next chancellor of the University of Arkansas...

Failing children having children

Updated: Mar 02, 2013 6:50pm

According to a recently released report by the National Center for Health Statistics, the overall rate of teen pregnancy in the U.S. is on the decline. The report’s authors state that the U...

Public has right to access

Updated: Mar 02, 2013 6:44pm

A series of bills was filed in the Arkansas legislature that have the potential to create a layer of government secrecy the likes of which we have not seen since the Freedom of Information Act...

Fifty years of spinning in circles

Updated: Feb 27, 2013 12:06am

In Ethan and Joel Coen’s 1994 cinematic elegy, The Hudsucker Proxy, Norville Barnes (Tim Robbins) has a “revolutionary” idea. He explains his brainstorm by drawing a circle onto a sheet of...

Pepper takes flight across time

Updated: Feb 25, 2013 11:38pm

It may not be the hottest place on Earth, but it’s probably one of the spiciest. Avery Island, Louisiana, is in many ways caught between epochs of history. In one instance, the presence of...

Courage lost in fearful bluster

Updated: Feb 23, 2013 10:42pm

It was disappointing to learn of Gov. Mike Beebe’s acquiescence to yet one more right-wing demand. One would hope that a term-limited governor would have a little more moral courage than we’ve...

Another blinding fall from grace

Updated: Feb 21, 2013 11:00pm

Yet again, certain members of the Pine Bluff City Council — when called upon to address profound dysfunction — have lapsed into predictable habit. The present issue concerns the hyper-politicized...

Bootleggers, gearheads rejoice

Updated: Feb 20, 2013 6:00pm

On this day in 1948, a blessed event took place in Daytona, Fla. William “Bill” France Sr., a transplanted auto mechanic and repair shop owner from Washington, D.C., filed the incorporation...

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