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Committee gives do-pass vote to proposed residency requirement

Updated: May 17, 2013 9:33pm

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The advice not to watch sausage being made was apropo for Thursday afternoon’s meeting of the Pine Bluff City Council’s Administration Committee.

On the table was a proposed...

Estes leaves roomy casket

Updated: May 16, 2013 9:00pm

Neither present nor future

Updated: May 15, 2013 9:00pm

Bargains that aren’t cheap

Updated: May 14, 2013 9:00pm

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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...

Mayoral misstep provokes concern

Updated: Feb 19, 2013 10:00pm

In that “benefit of the doubt” sort of way, we’re willing to call it a rookie mistake. With just a scant eight weeks under her belt, incumbent Pine Bluff Mayor Debe Hollingsworth took a misstep in...

Insane misunderstanding permits injustice

Updated: Feb 18, 2013 10:00pm

The American criminal justice system is often labyrinthine in its rules, procedures and practices. This maze of due process regularly leaves the public scratching its collective head when...

Roving presidential birthday parties

Updated: Feb 16, 2013 10:00pm

If you’re of a certain age, you can probably remember the heady days before Executive Order 11582 was issued by Pres. Richard Nixon on February 11, 1971. In those freewheeling days, federal...

Pine Bluff passes on crime rating

Updated: Feb 15, 2013 10:00pm

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Residents of Pine Bluff are not marching on Main Street shouting “We are No. 2,” as one wag suggested. We have been visited by CQ Press and its annual crime rankings, which are...

The Sins of the Cardinal

Updated: Feb 14, 2013 10:00pm

Eleven Americans will be among the 117 cardinals of the Catholic Church heading soon to Rome to select the next pope. One of them, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, for a quarter-century the archbishop of...

Foundations: hickory, stone, character

Updated: Feb 13, 2013 10:17pm

As most occasions of its kind do, the recent state of the union address provoked appraisals of the president’s communication skills. Whether one views the event as a success or failure is often...

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