Kudos Deserved For Response
WHAT’S THE POINT? Simultaneous incidents this week at two Springdale food plants were good tests of emergency responders’ preparedness.
What are the chances that a city would experience two accidental ammonia leaks at virtually the same time? Continue reading...
Cities Partner On Transportation
The partnership announced this week between Fayetteville and Fort Smith is more evidence of how much change has occurred in this region of the state. Continue reading...
Although Many, My Sins Are Forgiven
I am responding to Phil Warner (Public Viewpoint, Jan. 18). Phil, you were correct in what you wrote and I thank you for that. Continue reading...
And so it goes
Florence Green, veteran
LITTLE ROCK — SOME called it The Great War. Continue reading...
Want to be an astronaut?
LITTLE ROCK — “. . . The idea here. . . seemed to be that a man should have the ability to go up in a hurtling piece of machinery and put his hide on the line and then have the moxie, the reflexes, the experience, the coolness, to pull it back in the last yawning moment—and then go up again the next day, and the next day, and every next day, even if the series should prove infinite—and, ultimately, in its best expression, do so in a cause that means something to thousands, to a people, a nation, to humanity, to God.”—Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff Who could forget Tom Wolfe’s heady description of the moxie required to strap yourself into a tiny capsule perched atop a powerful rocket and, fingers crossed, venture into cold, unforgiving space? Continue reading...
Good Queen Liz
LITTLE ROCK — Another Englishwoman has made the papers of late: Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor (formerly Saxe-Coburg-Gotha before the family name was changed during the late unpleasantness of 1914-1918 ). Or, for short, Elizabeth II. Continue reading...
An honest democracy
LITTLE ROCK — True democracy is not created overnight. Society must be ready for democratic mechanisms. The majority of the population must feel they are citizens and be ready to devote attention, time and effort to participating in the process of government. Continue reading...
A to-do list
LITTLE ROCK — Here are 10 things Rick Santorum should do to build on his huge successes Tuesday: 1. Win over the base. Deliver an uplifting, positive speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference that defines his agenda and shows he can command the room. Leave the attacks to surrogates. Continue reading...
Valuing victims of crime
LITTLE ROCK — One of the greatest challenges in dealing with violent crime is assessing its cost to society. Continue reading...
LETTERS
LITTLE ROCK — Aggression causes attacks Poor paranoid Paul Greenberg. He sees the rest of the world as “our enemies” and “forces of tyranny,” who will surely attack if the U.S. policy changes from world’s worst aggressor state to non-interventionism. And what chutzpah! Continue reading...
Games with numbers
And why they need to stop
LITTLE ROCK — GARRISON Keillor’s fictive Lake Wobegon isn’t the only place where “all the children are above average.” So are the kids here in idyllic Arkansas if you can believe the ratings put out for this state’s Department of Education. Unfortunately, you can’t. Continue reading...
Land that we love
Of GOP primaries and baseball
LITTLE ROCK — THE FRONT-RUNNER for the Republican presidential nomination this year woke up yesterday morning to find out he wasn’t the frontrunner any more. Mornings after can be that way. A fellow just can’t seem to get his bearings. The heady optimism, the air of invincibility, the sure confidence of the night before. . . it all evaporates in the glaring light of day. A new world has dawned. Life will surprise, and certainly American elections will. Continue reading...
Controlling controversy
LITTLE ROCK — The Obama administration thinks it cannot go wrong politically, especially with women, by supporting birth control and equal access to it. Continue reading...
Rick Santorum redux
LITTLE ROCK — Rick Santorum is back! Is Herman Cain next? Do you think Rick Perry is kicking himself for dropping out of this race? Paging Sarah Palin! Continue reading...
The anti-Romney vote
LITTLE ROCK — A funny thing happened to Mitt Romney on the way to his coronation as the inevitable Republican candidate for president of the United States. Minnesota, Michigan and Colorado happened. Rick Santorum beat him in all three states on the same day —and beat him by huge margins in two of those states, as well as upsetting him in Colorado, where the Mormon vote was expected to give Romney a victory. Continue reading...
