Archive | August, 2010

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 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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Helping students open the door to knowledge

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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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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Time has come for Baggett to quit council

Public service is a laudable endeavor, but there’s one common standard at any level of involvement — putting the public’s interests above your own.

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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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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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