Archive | June, 2010

Snow brings out the child in all of us, for good, bad

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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MLK would be proud of gains, but not of our completion rate

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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Waiving of bids on sidewalks a surprise in light of recent events

We were stunned last week when Mayor Patrick Hays pushed through an extension of a sidewalk contract without seeking bids.

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Possibly sound move of Hopson hire just a detour for PCSSD board

At what point along the road to irresponsibility does a school board realize it has lost all its effectiveness as a governing body because its members are acting to further personal agendas?

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PCSSD board must return to representing all

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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Snow brings out the child in all of us, for good, bad

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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Census count crucial to city, all residents

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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District board, union hellbent on ugly collision

With a new superintendent beginning soon, the future should be rosy for the Pulaski County Special School District. But, stakeholders’ actions in the past few years have come home to roost.

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Memorial Day not high priority for most people

The irony was stunning. In the crowd Monday as Maumelle observed Memorial Day was an ever-shrinking group of grizzled old veterans of wars long ago and a key Maumelle employee wearing his Navy uniform with orders in his back pocket to return for his third trip to the Iraqwar region since the recent war began.

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Possibly sound move of Hopson hire just a detour for PCSSD board

At what point along the road to irresponsibility does a school board realize it has lost all its effectiveness as a governing body because its members are acting to further personal agendas?

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