Local Opinion
RSSCOMMENTARY: Extend Center’s Hours
Working Taxpayers Deserve Time To Work Out, Too
Well, well, well.
It’s going to be up to Mayor Greg Hines and Lesli Ossenfort, director of the Adult Wellness Center, to decide what the new membership fees for the center will be. Continue reading...
THE POORE PAGE: An End To A Great School Year
2012-13 Full Of Major Accomplishments For Students, District
You may not realize it, but we are down to our last few days of school. Continue reading...
COMMENTARY: Life Changes With Graduation
I always knew this one would be the hard one. Continue reading...
PUBLIC VIEWPOINT: Blind People Follow The Dictator
The Kermit Gosnell trial was a story resembling a cheap horror film. The monster and his minions worked in a house of horrors and were covered in the blood of innocents. Because the story was so connected to the abortion industry the media elected to ignore it completely or to minimize reporting the details. Continue reading...
COMMENTARY: Play Ball With NWA Naturals
Region's Students Enjoy Baseball, Funnel Cakes, Geometry
Peanuts and Cracker Jacks might have been replaced by snow cones and funnel cakes, but the Northwest Arkansas Naturals played ball Monday with a special group of fans in Arvest Ballpark. Roughly 4,800 students from the region attended the game. Continue reading...
HOW WE SEE IT: Veterans Home Makes Progress In Patient Care
It is exceptionally welcome news, as we approach the annual observance of Memorial Day, that the Fayetteville Veterans Home will be allowed again to accept clients whose services are covered in whole or in part by Medicaid or Medicare. Continue reading...
PUBLIC VIEWPOINT: ‘Fair Tax’ Proposal Is Way To Go For US
Our federal tax code is broken. It is more than 72,000 pages long and has had more than 5,000 code changes in just the past 11 years. It is so complicated even IRS employees can’t explain it. There is a bill in Congress, HR-25 and S-122, that provides a solution to this complex and convoluted tax code. It is called the Fair Tax. Continue reading...
BETWEEN THE LINES: Shoffner Gets One Thing Right
Martha Shoffner made one correct decision. She resigned as Arkansas state treasurer late Tuesday. Continue reading...
HOW WE SEE IT: Fee Increase: Center Still A Steal
Here’s the good news: When it comes to the potential fee increase for members of the Rogers Adult Wellness Center, there’s plenty of wiggle room. Continue reading...
LETTERS
Honor the many community scholarship donors On Thursday, May 16, the 37th annual Siloam Springs High School Scholarship Awards Program was held in the High School Theater for the graduating Class of 2013. Continue reading...
COMMENTARY: Board Seeks Tuition Explanation
A committee of the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees will make recommendations this week after conducting an unusual hearing in which chancellors of the various campuses were asked to justify proposed increases in tuition and fees. Continue reading...
PUBLIC VIEWPOINT: Bentonville High School Changes Needed
I have been reading about the need for another high school to help take the load off Bentonville High. I know the need is a fact as I have one grandchild there now and another who graduated a few years ago. Continue reading...
HOW WE SEE IT: Artful Dodge Shortchanges Bentonville
Last year, when the chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts visited Bentonville and its new art museum, he declared a vision of how the arts and community would intersect. Continue reading...
PUBLIC VIEWPOINT: Immigration Bill Development An Insult
The immigration bill under development in the U.S. Senate is an insult to legal immigrants who obeyed the law, came here legally, met all the requirements and waited their turn for citizenship. No discussion of immigration reform should go forward until two basic steps are completed: 1. The border fence that is already approved is built. (The fence Israel built ended terrorist bombings in the areas fenced.) 2. E-verify is fully utilized by all employers and fully tested to check citizenship and Social Security status of job-seekers. Continue reading...
COMMENTARY: School Field Trips Are Worth It
Not long ago, my son Jett became one of the thousands of area school children who took a field trip to see the collection at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Continue reading...
