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Patrolling for absent reason

Updated: Jun 18, 2013 9:00pm

In the 2001 film, Zoolander, evil fashion mogul, Jacobim Mugatu (Will Ferrell) becomes so frustrated at the apparent credulity and foolishness around him that he screams, “Doesn’t anybody notice...

Prior Pryor record needs recast

Updated: Jun 17, 2013 9:00pm

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<p>Roy Ockert</p>

Medical students deserve long-term solutions

Updated: Jun 10, 2013 9:00pm

Gov. Mike Beebe will ask a subcommittee of the Arkansas Legislative Council next month for approval to use “rainy-day funds” to aid Arkansas students seeking advanced degrees in high-demand health...

<p>Kathryn Lopez</p>

Women deserve better

Updated: Jun 10, 2013 9:00pm

“I think it’s without question that pregnancy to a woman can completely disrupt her life.”

In 1971, Sarah Weddington argued in front of the Supreme Court that pregnancy is a burden women...

<p>Matthew Pate</p>

Keeping violence all bottled up

Updated: Jun 08, 2013 11:20pm

Last week, I focused on the irrefutable fact that most people who are murdered in the United States are killed by someone using a handgun. Predictably the cranks came out of the woodwork to...

<p>Steve Brawner</p>

Ready for 17 months of ads?

Updated: Jun 08, 2013 11:15pm

If you like negative political ads, then these next 17 months are for you. If you don’t, turn off the TV, or at least get ready to use your DVR.

That’s because Sen. Mark Pryor is part of...

Immigrant babies out with the bath

Updated: Jun 08, 2013 11:12pm

If one were looking for a prime example of government by mean-spirit, the U.S. House of Representatives provided one earlier this week.

Passing an “anti-immigration” amendment sponsored by...

A force for good: Walmart puts full support behind veterans

Updated: Jun 07, 2013 9:00pm

Walmart surely has its share of detractors, who often complain about the massive company’s wage scale, benefits packages and its power in the marketplace, among other perceived issues.

But...

<p>Roland Martin</p>

I don’t mind women earning more

Updated: Jun 07, 2013 9:00pm

Shortly after I graduated from college in 1991, a fraternity brother of mine asked me how I could be happy that the woman I was engaged to marry was making more money than me.

“Easy,” I said...

No evidence of a conspiracy

Updated: Jun 07, 2013 9:00pm

Republicans are increasingly emphatic in their insinuations that “the Obama IRS” has been involved in some kind of wide political conspiracy. But a Treasury Department inspector general, still the...

Teenage boy wants to deliver paper

Updated: Jun 07, 2013 9:00pm

I am 14. I wish that I could have a paper route in my neighborhood to earn some money. I live outside the city limits of Pine Bluff. Everyone that I have talked to has said that I have to be 16 to...

Not enough recognition for substitutes, staff

Updated: Jun 07, 2013 9:00pm

I have worked for the Pine Bluff School District for many years as a substitute cook. Every year, when the school district hands out bonuses to its employees, we do not receive anything. There has...

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