FOIA response
Editor,
Recently when I was contacted by the press regarding FOIAs. I was asked six specific questions: I wanted to make a couple of things...
Impaired should be unimpaired
Editor,
It is soooo hot. Do you ever want to canoe the Buffalo or slosh your feet in its cool pristine waters? The Arkansas Department...
Russian to conclusions
Anyone living in the United States since World War II – shucks – anyone living anywhere on Earth who was aware of geopolitical events...
Where did all the wildflowers go?
Well... the state decided to take our tax dollars and purchase fleets of dump trucks (with a base price of more than $100,000 each)...
Gross deception
Once again, we are the economic envy of the entire world. Donald Trump, July 27, 2018
The headlines over the weekend and reports from the...
Veteran’s Day Nov. 11 is the custom
Editor;
It has come to my attention that “the powers that be” have moved the longest running Folk Festival in the U.S. from the usual...
Unity a pipedream?
Editor,
I wish there were (subjunctive!) unity in our country, but there is not. It’s as if there are, at least, two different societies.
One is...
Displaying the flag
In 1968, activist and provocateur Abbie Hoffman was arrested for wearing a shirt designed on the American flag to a hearing held by the...
Crimes of corruption
Government actions destroying life, pretending to improve the economy, ignoring public health and environmental justice, are crimes of corruption.
Corruption is dishonest behavior by people...
Ironic what’s iconic
Editor,
It’s fun to think that everything American-iconic has a special value because it represents us at a certain point of “being great” and we...