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The guts to tell it real
Letters Comments Updated: Mar 14, 2012 7:49pmEditor, The Commercial:
I had hoped for a time when editorialists, financial page reporters, investment counselors, et al., would openly admit and write about the speculation in oil stocks!...
GSA celebrating century of growth
Editorials Comments Updated: Mar 13, 2012 7:00pmOne hundred years ago this week, Juliette “Daisy” Gordon Low assembled a small group of girls in Savannah, Georgia. The occasion is now remembered as the foundational meeting of the Girl Scouts of...
The museum of government waste
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Mar 13, 2012 7:00pmWould it be possible to get Congress to fund a museum about all the money that Congress wastes?
That’s the premise behind a movie, “The Museum of Government Waste,” to be released later this...
Ending hunger in the classroom
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Mar 13, 2012 7:00pmWhen the national child anti-hunger organization Share Our Strength polled America’s middle-school teachers in 2011, two-thirds said they taught children who regularly came to school too hungry to...
Keeping teeth in the FOIA
Editorials Comments Updated: Mar 12, 2012 7:00pmSince 1967 citizens of Arkansas have been blessed with a model Freedom of Information Act to help provide them with access to the workings of their local governments.
This is “Sunshine Week...
Historic house creates rift on campus
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Mar 12, 2012 5:32pmAn old house scheduled for demolition has some members of the Arkansas State University faculty stirred up, and the issue threatens to drive a wedge between the new administration and the campus...
Disabling drunk drivers
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Mar 13, 2012 4:11pmFool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. It’s a good rule for dealing with those who have proved themselves to be untrustworthy. And it’s increasingly applied in a realm where a...
Working toward better foster care
Editorials Comments Updated: Mar 10, 2012 6:00amAttendees at the most recent West Pine Bluff Rotary Club meeting were greeted with important facts about foster care in Arkansas. According to JoAnna Hale, director of the Jefferson County office...
Have recent changes meant fewer laws?
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Mar 10, 2012 6:00amLet’s start with the assumption that it’s inherently better not to pass a law unless it’s necessary. Laws can be messy, many have costs, and many infringe on our freedoms.
So it was a good...
Blinds drawn on broken windows
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Mar 10, 2012 6:00amHe wasn’t a household name, unless your household contains a criminologist. Even so, the passing of James Q. Wilson earlier this week is worthy of note. Wilson was a rare academic whose work...
