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Stay Out of Syria
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: May 03, 2013 9:00pmWith the Iraq war behind us and our departure from Afghanistan underway, the United States could be entering a well-earned respite from fighting. But even before peace can take hold, hawks are...
New drug store causing mixed emotions
Letters Comments Updated: May 03, 2013 9:00pmEditor, The Commercial:
The arrival of Walgreens in our community causes me mixed emotions. On one hand I am glad to have another large national pharmacy locate in Pine Bluff. Some Walgreen...
All citizens asked to act civilized
Letters Comments Updated: May 03, 2013 9:00pmEditor, The Commercial:
I’ve waited to write. It’s gotten even worse!
To all in Jefferson County government at all levels: If you expect to be treated civilly, then act CIVILIZED! This...
Relay For Life reaches fundraising goal
Letters Comments Updated: May 03, 2013 9:00pmEditor, The Commercial:
I am proud to announce that as of today we have reached our $4,000 Relay For Life Fundraising Goal. Our Luncheon fundraiser raised $418, plus we received two...
Education program helps new parents cope
Editorials Comments Updated: May 03, 2013 8:29pmMothers and fathers know the heart-filling joy that comes with a new baby. For new parents, the first weeks of a child’s life are marked by an endless wonderment at the miracle of life and the...
Changing the terms on term limits
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: May 03, 2013 8:29pmIn 1992, Arkansas voters approved one of the country’s strictest legislative term limits laws: three two-year terms in the state House and two four-year terms in the Senate. Next November, they’ll...
New solutions for Pine Bluff’s economy
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: May 03, 2013 8:27pmNonfarm payroll employment, the broadest economic indicator, has contracted in greater Pine Bluff during the current expansion, a troubling metric. The National Bureau of Economic Research, a...
Failed by two systems
Editorials Comments Updated: May 01, 2013 10:00pmImagine that you had become gravely ill. You were so sick that you couldn’t function. Your family couldn’t take care of you; and nobody seemed to offer any meaningful treatment. Now assume that...
Halter doesn’t mind going it alone
Letters Comments Updated: May 01, 2013 10:00pmThe fastest, surest way to get a laugh from Bill Halter is to observe that establishment Democrats don’t merely dislike him, don’t simply disdain him — they revile him.
Halter, who wants...
The art of the impossible
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: May 01, 2013 10:00pmSomeone called politics “the art of the possible.” But, in the era of the modern welfare state, politics is largely the art of the impossible.
Those people morbid enough to keep track of...