LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
Committees are an essential part of the legislative process. While in committee, a bill is reviewed, researched, and sometime revised.
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CAPITOL DISCUSSION
There’s an event in our nation’s past that, though catastrophic and heartbreaking, hasn’t ever received the attention it truly deserves. For Arkansans, it should be something we learn about thoroughly and feel connected to perhaps more than most of the other dates and milestones we read in textbooks and hear about from educators.
STATE CAPITOL WEEK IN REVIEW
LITTLE ROCK – Funds are now available from the settlement of a massive lawsuit against opioid distributors and will be awarded to projects that have demonstrated effectiveness in combating the abuse of painkillers. The Arkansas Opioid Recovery Partnership has set up a website with information about how to apply.
EDITORIAL:Rocks, Glass Houses
Many things happen daily. Problems arise.
People are Dying to Get in There
October was a lot of skeletons and zombies and ghosts, and it made me realize that Halloween omits an important step before the afterlife. The transition. All of these spirits were once living but now they’re dead. Fine, technically a zombie is undead. Which is a confusing. The prefix “un” means the absence of something.
The importance of coachability
by Pam Lowe, Editor, Clay County Courier, Cherryroad columnist There’s an underestimated life skill that either makes or breaks a person’s trajectory in life. It can actually advance or end careers.
When Your Boat Leaves You
When you can provide someone with a good laugh and it lasts all day, you have really accomplished something. And here is how I did it.
GROWING UP FLIPPIN
Last weekend I enjoyed breakfast at one of the long-time restaurants in Bull Shoals. It was a beautiful autumn day so, before going home, I drove around the town a bit and thought about visits there when I was a kid.
Productive And Non-Productive Ground
With this year’s unpredictable weather, one must evaluate what changes could be made to their property to get the most production out of it no matter what weather we receive. We had a wetter than normal spring leading into summer, then into drought conditions followed by rain then back to the drought conditions we are now facing.
October Memories
Ain’t October wonderful! It’s the best month of the year for fishing and hunting, except maybe for November and April, and possibly May and December. I once spent most of October in Canada, fishing for walleye, crappie and smallmouth, and hunting ruffed grouse and ducks and geese. We would start on the Lake of the Woods in northwest Ontario and then move over into Manitoba’s prairie pothole country where ducks and geese numbered in the millions. One October evening I caught a ten-pound walleye in Manitoba’s Red River after hunting geese all morning.