Looking at their records
Having a long record in public office is a political advantage on the day that you announce for higher office because voters are supposed to put a premium on wisdom that flows from experience.
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A poverty of the mind
Here is a statistic that both encourages and depresses us: The parents of about 10 percent of seventh and eighth grade students in Arkansas sign waivers every year so that their children will not be required to take the core curriculum for secondary school.
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Engaging in debate
Mike Beebe and Asa Hutchinson, the major party candidates for governor, engaged in the first debate of the season Monday night at Jonesboro, and our considered judgement is that the collective impact of the hour of boasts and jibes was exactly...zero.
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It's Lieutenant, sir
Their debate Monday night may not have been exciting-it was not televised and was witnessed by a handful of people besides their cheerleaders-but at least the candidates for lieutenant governor provide a refreshing contrast.
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Why it failed
One of the arguments against the quarter-cent sales tax for Pulaski County jails, the most philosophically persuasive was that we already lock up too many people for too long for too many reasons.
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Blaming Daniels
The name or political party of the Arkansas secretary of state has never mattered much to us because his or her work is ministerial and you merely hope that whoever wins the office hires competent people to keep all the files straight.
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Docudrama downfall
Impartial media may have become an oxymoron, but even in this day of jaded and sly journalism ABC's five-hour documentary, or "docudrama," "The Path to 9/11" is a monumental embarrassment. More than that, it is an affront to the American people.
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Message in a jail vote
For the third time in nine years, Pulaski Country voters yesterday rejected a proposed special sales tax to expand and operate the countyjail. Now, the county and municipal governments have a fresh mandate to be more innovative and more cooperative to keep communities safe.
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Vote for tax, despite doubts
We wish in vain for the perfect tax proposal, one that addresses a need that everyone concurs is unavoidable with a remedy that everyone considers wise.
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Slumping incomes
Another day, another depressing economic report. Now it is the U.S. Census Bureau reporting on its 2005 household survey, which showed median family incomes slumping swince the turn of the century, in Arkansas a whopping 7.2 percent over the five years.
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Huck frees another one
Another killer has been paroled, and questions have been raised about Gov. Huckabee's involvement.
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Where was the president?
There was a time — up to about a year ago, in fact — when a presidential visit was a big event in rural vineyards like Arkansas. When President Reagan swooped into Little Rock for an eleventh-hour campaign visit to plug Arkansas Republican candidates for federal office, every moment of his sojourn was public from his deplaning to the emplaning.
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Brothers or enemies
The Arkansas Times blog raised an intriguing question this week. How long can Gov. Huckabee hold out before he endorses Democrat Mike Beebe over Asa Hutchinson in the governor’s race?
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Raid unmasks country club
Someone in the federal establishment has a perfect sense of the sublime. He or she caused the U. S. Immigration and Customs services to raid the Little Rock Country Club last week and arrest 11 immigrant employees, illegal aliens almost certainly, because they did not have good citizenship papers.
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Huckabee monuments
You have an invitation to attend the grand opening and dedication of the Janet Huckabee Nature Center on the Arkansas River at Fort Smith on Thursday. We understand that it is quite an impressive place.
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More choices for voters
Jim Lendall, the copiously bearded former state representative, is not going to be the next governor of Arkansas, and he doesn’t expect to be.
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Judge sees the light
It does not speak especially well for judicial reflection, but Pulaski Circuit Judge Jay Moody reversed himself yesterday afternoon and ruled that the Bryant School District could close the little Paron High School immediately and educate the youngsters in schools that can offer them more education for much less of the taxpayers’ money.
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