Fran Alexander
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We Can Do Better than Single Stream Recycling
LET YOUR MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL, OTHER OFFICIALS KNOW WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT PROCESS
Most parents have experienced that moment after telling their child to straighten his/her room when the little rebel looks you defiantly in the eye and kicks toys, game pieces, books, clothes, shoes, etc. all into a big pile. Continue reading...
Drive-By Shooting Reported
SPRINGDALE — Police are investigating a drive-by shooting reported on Braxton Drive on Friday night.
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Talking About Matters Nearby, Happening Now
PROBABLY THE OLDEST PLOY IN DEALING WITH OR CHANGING A SUBJECT IS USING A DISTRACTION
When deciding what to tell one’s fellow citizens about certain environmental problems, there are several things to consider. The first, from my perspective at least, is, “Does anyone care?” This is also the toughest question to answer because to a large degree, caring depends on proximity and timing of where and when people are impacted. Continue reading...
Santa Knows, Even When You Have Moved
THE MOST GRIEVOUS TOYS DURING THE CHRISTMAS SEASON ARE THE GUNS, TANKS AND BATTLESHIPS
As the season of merriment, brotherly love, charity and goodwill charges down upon us in our last weeks of 2011, and tradition pushes us into the gifting mode, please pause and think about what you are buying. Continue reading...
When Words From The Past Come Back To Us
TO BE RECORDED IN PRINT WITH WHAT WE WRITE IS CLOSEST THING TO IMMORTALITY FOR SOME
Since I do not get to look over the shoulders of other opinion writers who, like myself, expound and extrapolate in our columns about issues of our own particular interest, I do not know how much internal soul searching or external research the others engage in before writing their words. Continue reading...
It’s Time For Shameless Self-Promotion
COLUMNIST WILL PRESENT STORY OF ‘DADDY,’ WHO WAS ALSO KNOWN AS ‘THE ARKANSAS TRAVELER’
It has always been a bit tempting to begin one of my articles with, “Once upon a time,” and today I’ve got my best chance. So... Once upon a time, on Oct. 29, 1911, a baby boy was born to Ernest and Mabel Deane in the small south Arkansas town of Lewisville, located not far from both the Texas and Louisiana borders. Continue reading...
Learning Lessons From A Fig Tree
WANGARI MAATHAI’S LIFE TESTAMENT TO EMPOWERING WOMEN TOWARD SELF-SUFFICIENCY
“A great river always begins somewhere.” — Wangari Maathai In a small village in British Kenya, inside a dung and mudwalled house with no electricity or running water, and two weeks into the “season of long rains,” a midwife helped Wangari Muta enter this world. Continue reading...
PEOPLE & PLACES
Williams Marks 98th Birthday Continue reading...
Seeking Answers To Nagging Questions
PEACE FOUND IN SONG TITLE
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions.” — Ranier Maria Rilke Every so often, along comes a reality yank on the old consciousness and recurring questions rise up to niggle at me. Continue reading...
Process Not What It Seems
INDUSTRY QUESTIONS STILL LINGER FOR GOVERNMENT
Ah, the talented Mr. Ponzi. The financial scheme bearing his name is one built on first convincing a few investors there are substantial returns to be made on a product or process, and then cleverly setting the hook by paying them a large promised interest with money coming in from more and more investors. Continue reading...
