ESI Staff
Illegal rentals? Tell the mayor
At Monday’s Eureka Springs City Council meeting, alderman Melissa Greene, who had previously asked about posting signs on properties where rooms are rented illegally,...
Paying down bonds gets bogged down
City Attorney Tim Weaver had drafted a proposed ordinance stipulating, “That the Finance Department is hereby directed to continue payments at this time on...
Grant funds diversion under the microscope
City Attorney Tim Weaver explained at Monday’s council meeting that he had prepared a draft ordinance according to council’s request requiring approval if grant...
Nuts and bolts of improving an improvement district
District Manager Lawrence Blood told HISID commissioners last Wednesday that Stateline Drive had significant problems and needed a four-inch overlay from Venus Ave. to...
City finances ‘looking good’
Mayor Butch Berry told city council on Monday that 2018 is the first time he remembered city finances beginning the year in the black....
HDC back to full strength
New commissioners Judy Holden and John Nuckolls faced an easy agenda for their first Historic District Commission meeting Feb. 21 as six commissioners wasted...
The threat to world peace
Donald Trump made me think about world peace. He is preparing for nuclear war against North Korea. Trump asked his generals, “Why can’t I...
Social order has crumpled
Editor,
In 1775, the rifles the farmers brought with them were the weapons that created the state. That is why the government, in the 2nd Amendment,...
What will stop such things?
Editor,
The shooting in Parkland instantly brought cries for “common sense gun control” and the students are ready to eviscerate the 2nd Amendment in response....
What’s the biggest worry?
Editor,
The NRA owns our government, so we will never have sensible gun laws.
Health insurance companies own our politicians, so we will never have universal...