A mail piece that went out this week hits Republican candidate for State Representative John Parke hard on his record on abortion. The ad draws primarily from his responses to a 2004 Arkansas Right to Life Questionnaire. In it, he staked out a position opposing overturning Roe v. Wade, opposing the expansion of [...]

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Journalists love words. It follows then, that we adore our dictionaries. A dictionary is a powerful book. It opens the door to the world of words and contains the seeds for a harvest of vast knowledge.

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This week’s heavy snow that followed forecasters’ prediction of a light dusting brings out the child in us. In some cases that’s good, but in others it isn’t.

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Many Sherwood residents were not yet born when, on April 4, 1968, Trumann native Gerald Jumper, using the stage name Ray Sherman, sat on a stool in front of a camera in the WMC-TV studios in Memphis and announced to the world that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had just been shot and killed at [...]

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The Pulaski County Special School District has had its problems in recent months, but one thing that seemed to be dependable was that members of its board of trustees continued to act in a reasonably professional manner.

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This week’s heavy snow that followed forecasters’ prediction of a light dusting brings out the child in us. In some cases that’s good, but in others it isn’t.

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North Little Rock city officials launched their effort to encourage residents to participate in the 2010 Census with a ceremony Wednesday.

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Jimmy Phillips is a perfectly good choice as the new alderman for Ward 3. He replaces Cary Gaines, who resigned Nov. 20 in anticipation of being named in a federal indictment on an accusation of attempted bid-rigging.

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The North Little Rock City Council and Mayor Patrick Hays may not be done fighting about the replacement for Alderman Cary Gaines, who resigned Nov. 20. And we doubt that we’re finished commenting on the process.

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As any of us who stumble along this journey called life pause and reflect upon that travel, we learn all too often that death is no respecter of age.

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