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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...
Mayoral misstep provokes concern
Editorials Comments Updated: Feb 19, 2013 10:00pmIn 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
Editorials Comments Updated: Feb 18, 2013 10:00pmThe 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
Editorials Comments Updated: Feb 16, 2013 10:00pmIf 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
Editorials Comments Updated: Feb 15, 2013 10:00pmThumb down
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
Editorials Comments Updated: Feb 14, 2013 10:00pmEleven 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
Editorials Comments Updated: Feb 13, 2013 10:17pmAs 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...