Effort to rein in LEARNS stalls, as expected
Rep. Jim Wooten, R-Beebe, knew his resolution meant to reduce spending for the LEARNS Act’s educational freedom accounts would not gain much traction. In fact, he said so.
Category: Voices
What happens to a country of contempt?
How well can a nation based on being a representative democracy and a free market economy function when a majority of its citizens say their countrymen are immoral? We may find out in the coming decades.
Sanders’ State of the State shows what will pass
One big difference between a president’s typical State of the Union address and Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ State of the State address April 8 is this: What the governor proposed will actually happen.
Rep. Womack: Biggest threat not Iran, China or debt
“It is the profound division in the body politic that prevents the legislative branch of the greatest country this world has ever known, that prevents that legislative body from doing its most basic function,” he said in Springdale Wednesday. “And then you have to ask, ‘How did we get here?’ …
No Second Thoughts: Full Moon Fever
The year was 1972. The 3-man Apollo 16 crew of astronauts were minutes away from re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere following an 11-day journey to the moon and back. Meanwhile, in the Pacific Ocean about midway between the U.S. and Australia, a 21-year-old James Phelps was wrapping up a semi-mandatory 2-year stint in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Ticonderoga aircraft carrier.
Andrew DeMillo: Close secretary of state runoff points to fissures and future fights for Arkansas Republicans
Unlike many GOP nomination fights, the race for secretary of state wasn’t a battle over how far right the candidates could go. Neither Hammer nor Norris could be viewed as a moderate or “Republican in Name Only.”
How an independent can get elected
Today let’s talk about two independents who were on Arkansas’ March 3 ballot – one explicitly independent, one functionally so. The explicit one lost badly. The functional one won easily.