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Zeal overrides great progress
Editorials Comments Updated: Mar 04, 2013 11:12pmA 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
Editorials Comments Updated: Mar 02, 2013 11:00pmFrustration 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
Editorials Comments Updated: Mar 02, 2013 6:52pmThumb up
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
Editorials Comments Updated: Mar 02, 2013 6:50pmAccording 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
Editorials Comments Updated: Mar 02, 2013 6:44pmA 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
Editorials Comments Updated: Feb 27, 2013 12:06amIn 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
Editorials Comments Updated: Feb 25, 2013 11:38pmIt 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
Editorials Comments Updated: Feb 23, 2013 10:42pmIt 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
Editorials Comments Updated: Feb 21, 2013 11:00pmYet 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
Editorials Comments Updated: Feb 20, 2013 6:00pmOn 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...