They just don’t get it The response of the Pulaski County Special School District trustees to the district being placed in fiscal distress is indicative of how it got there in the first place — extravagant spending, lack of financial control and being out of touch with reality.

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During last week’s emergency meeting of the Pulaski County Special School District board, new board member Tom Stuthard of Jacksonville moved to go into executive session because he said he had some things he wanted to say to board members in private and not “out here for everyone to hear.”

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The new version of the Pulaski County Special School District board is changed, but not necessarily for the better.

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The new version of the Pulaski County Special School District board is changed, but not necessarily for the better.

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When I hear “Take Me Out to the Ballgame,” sung by Carly Simon on the soundtrack of “Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns,” I am moved in different ways.

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The Arkansas Republican Party unloads on Gov. Mike Beebe for pushing to have his “crony” Shane Broadway elevated to director of the state Higher Education Department when he lacks qualifications specified by state law for the job. The GOP nicks Beebe, too, because at least one member of the appointed board that will fill the [...]

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SPRINGDALE — A solution of chlorine was poured into a drum of acid inside a Tyson Foods Inc. chicken processing plant in Arkansas this week, causing chlorine gas that sickened more than 170 people.

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Malcolm Trent Cox, 48, a former North Little Rock School Board member, has been sentenced to 65 months in federal prison and five years of supervised release for possession of child pornography. Here’s the release. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

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LITTLE ROCK — Gov. Mike Beebe on Tuesday told a crowd of nearly 200 Stonewall Democrats that he does not support same-sex marriage.

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LITTLE ROCK — Five Arkansas properties have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of historically significant properties, the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program announced today.

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