Will not miss a thing
Watching soccer is like watching paint dry.
It's the only sport that I know where you can go out for lunch 20 minutes into a game, take your time, and then come back and it's 10-to-1 that you won't have missed a thing.
JOE WHALEN
North Little Rock
Allow all to recycle
This is to thank the Pulaski County Solid Waste Management Board for allowing county residents to use the recycle bins at locations in Little Rock and North Little Rock for nearly 10 years. Thanks also to our good neighbor Kroger for providing a spot for the bins.
The dropoff sites were closed at the end of last month, leaving county residents without a place to take our household waste for recycling.
I think it is time for the mayors of Little Rock and North Little Rock to meet with the county Solid Waste Management Board to commit to a recycling program for all of Pulaski County. If it means a tax or a fee for county residents, it will be well worth it.
Recycling is for everyone, not just for city residents.
MARY ANN LITTLEFIELD
North Little Rock
Did great disservice
It was reported that 400 tons of recyclable materials a year were brought to dropoff locations in Pulaski County that are now closed. The Regional Recycling and Solid Waste Management District executive director said, "We're redirecting the money into programs that are more meaningful right now."
What could be more meaningful to his agency than to keep 400 tons of stuff out of the waste stream? What could be more meaningful than supporting citizens who, at their own cost of time and gas, haul recyclables to a central location?
Shutting down dropoff sites is a great disservice to responsible citizens who recycle without the benefit of curbside collection.
KATHLEEN WEICKHARDT
Little Rock
From bumper sticker
Apparently the catchphrase "sensible gun laws" has been shortened to "gun sense." The result is the same no matter how the words are arranged: punishing the many for the criminal acts of the few.
The term "gun sense" is a new catchphrase from the Bloomberg group. Really, I expect better of you than to publish talking points and bumper-sticker slogans from the left.
In a recent Perspective piece, Cathy Jellenik bemoans the fact that Arkansas doesn't have laws restricting access to guns from domestic abusers. May I point out to Ms. Jellenik that this is already covered by federal law? May I also point out that like all laws, I believe these statutes are useless in preventing crime? If laws prevented crime, how could there be crime with all the laws we already have?
As always, it seems these groups with lofty-sounding names that desire to undermine the Second Amendment completely miss the point. Criminals don't obey the law, so additional gun laws are useless.
FRANK LATIMER
Little Rock
Editorial on 07/15/2014