Flippin - In recognition of the service and sacrifice of thousands of first responders nationwide, SERVPRO will host the fifth annual SERVPRO First Responder Bowl at Southern Methodists University’s Gerald J. Ford Stadium in Dallas, Texas.
WASHINGTON–U.S. Senator John Boozman (RAR) voted to approve the Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), critical legislation that provides for national security priorities, protects and bolsters defense missions in Arkansas as well as ensures America’s servicemembers are supplied the tools, resources and training necessary to defend our homeland and interests.
Martin Luther King, Jr. has been attributed to saying, “Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.” I can honestly say that I have tried to do that in bringing the community news each week in the Clay County Courier.
How many of us are planners and how many of us are procrastinators? Or are we both? I can fall into both categories. While we are at the time of year where New Year’s Resolutions are being thought about a lot, how many of those plans go longer into the year than a few weeks or so? Here are some things to think about for the coming year and it’s never too early to start planning.
There are very few shopping days left until Christmas. If you have not finished your shopping or planning for family celebrations, then you are getting ready for the Holiday Sprint! This can cause a big strain on your budget and emotions.
As much as I loved my two little grandsons, I didn’t get either of them a Christmas present when they were young. That’s because they had toys stacked so high in their home that you couldn’t see any corners. I think back on those great Christmases when I was a kid, when there was common sense and simplicity left in this world. I wish all kids could experience such a Christmas. I just lived for a new two-gun and holster set and a cowboy hat at Christmas when I was five or six. Nowadays, if a little kid has a toy gun, somebody is scared to death he’ll point it at someone and go “bang-bang”, like I and a thousand other kids born during the days of Gene Autry and Roy Rogers did.
The Marion County Quorum Court met Thursday, December 15, to discuss or correct ordinances that could not be completed on Tuesday, December 13, in the regular session. Rick White, Talon Vancuren, Marty Nickels, Wesley Shipman, James Underwood, Claudia Brigham, Joyce McCalla, and Brady Madden were in attendance, along with John Massey to conduct the meeting.
LITTLE ROCK – Legislators finished the calendar year with a final round of recommendations for spending federal relief funds and reserve funds. The recommendations include using another $93.8 million for broadband projects and $20 million to upgrade computerized case management for the state court system.
This week, the Arkansas Legislative Council received a report regarding the state of mental and behavioral health in Arkansas. This report was months in the making.
This week, my colleagues and I on the the House Intelligence Committee released a report on the origins of COVID-19. The report indicates that COVID-19 could be connected to China’s biological weapons research program and may have leaked into the human population during an accident at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology.