Archive | July, 2010

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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Tribute to an Arkansas hero

Nicky Bacon was a true hero — not a Hollywood hero or a wannabe who tried to amplify his war record.

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PCSSD board wasting more tax dollars

As much as we respect the right of the members of the Pulaski County Special School District to be wrong in their treatment of teachers by snubbing the teachers union, we cannot condone throwing good money after bad in one legal battle after another fighting a losing cause.

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District board, union hellbent on ugly collision

With a new superintendent beginning Thursday, 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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Tribute to an Arkansas hero

Nicky Bacon was a true hero — not a Hollywood hero or a wannabe who tried to amplify his war record.

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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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Former police Chief Frank Neely made a difference

As a teenager in the 1950s, Frank Neely learned firsthand the indignities of discrimination and how cruel people can be to each other when they choose to label someone based upon some unknown perception rather than by the deeds of the man.

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Jacksonville’s piece of history

For those who lived through the 1940s,1950s,1960s, and 1970s and even the 1980s, it’s hard to conceive that the events we witnessed every day would be considered history, but that time period chronicles an important part of our country’s history.

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Obama controls his narrative

Barack Obama was born in a foreign nation as part of a genetic experiment, raised a Muslim and brainwashed by radicals. Think X-Men meets Malcolm X.

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