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Playing the guessing game
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: May 18, 2012 6:53pmSo there’s room remaining in Arkansas politics for surprise. Good. The gentleman who sits for the Fourth Congressional District, Mike Ross, has been predicted as a gubernatorial candidate at...
Here are your candidates for Supreme Court
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: May 18, 2012 6:51pmThe only statewide race this year is for an associate justice position on the Supreme Court. Judge Raymond Abramson of Holly Grove faces Judge Jo Hart of Mountain View.
It’s not a high-...
Suspension vote not a surprise
Editorials Comments Updated: May 17, 2012 9:00pmAs recently reported in the Commercial, the Pine Bluff Parks and Recreation Commission voted to uphold the two-week suspension of Saracen Landing manager Trudy Redus pursuant to an accident she...
Who is Andrew C. Butler?
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: May 17, 2012 9:00pmCoach Andrew C. Butler needs no introduction to Pine Bluff or Arkansas as he has been noted by many as one of the greatest track coaches in our state. Not only has he distinguished himself as a...
FIRST teaches job skills using robots, fun
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: May 17, 2012 9:00pmWhen you were a kid, would you have rather learned math and science from a textbook only, or by also building basketball-playing robots?
For some of us, the answer would be the first: Just...
Facilitating the path to redemption
Editorials Comments Updated: May 16, 2012 5:12pmThrough provision of employment opportunities as well as the operation and maintenance of its facilities, the Arkansas Department of Correction has a broad positive impact on the economic life of...
If the phone rings …
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: May 16, 2012 9:00pmThere’s a saying in the state bureaucracy, at the top of it: if Mike Beebe calls you, you resign. If Morrill Harriman calls you, you’re fired.
Harriman, as Mr. Beebe’s closest personal and...
2014 gubernatorial field may get crowded
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: May 16, 2012 9:00pmFourth District Rep. Mike Ross, though always coy on the subject, seemed to have wanted to be governor since he was 6 months old. He announced this week that he’s not running in 2014.
Ross...
Persistent reflection distorts reality
Editorials Comments Updated: May 15, 2012 10:31pmEcclesiastes 1:9 tells us, “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” As such, we may often turn to ancient stories to provide...
Appeal is made for motorcycle awareness
Letters Comments Updated: May 15, 2012 10:39pmEditor, The Commercial
Due to rising gas prices and the ever rising cost of automobiles, there are now more motorcycles on the road than ever before. There are also more inexperienced...