Little Rock elementary teachers spoke decisively last week on a proposal to test "merit pay" in the Little Rock School District.
But is there trouble ahead?
Evidence is emerging that the quantity and quality of contraband found in a horse barn at Tucker maximum security prison on March 10 might be more extensive — and potentially dangerous — than what was first reported by the Arkansas Department of Corre
Arkansas isn’t the only state with science teachers who fail to teach evolution, or who “balance” lessons on Darwin with non-scientific explanations of how life develops.
After another vacation, our representatives and senators are now back at work in Washington with the promise that they will finally do something about the overflow of 11 million illegal immigrants slipping into this country for the past 15 years.
It seems sometimes that every generation since Hemingway has been given up by their parents for lost.
Luckily for us, the stereotypical image of hordes of doomed young losers is no more real now than it was when “The Great Gatsby” was a bestseller. Yo
Unlike King Saul, President Bush knew that he was not consulting with the Witch of Endor when he called on Helen Thomas at his famous news conference last week, but the result might have been the same.
Mardi Gras, which begins in earnest in New Orleans today, will be no less boisterous and luxuriant as previous ones, organizers say.”
This is from the Penguin Dictionary of American English Style and Usage:
“One as is usually not enough when a sen
I can sympathize with state legislators who are opposing the substantial increases in school funding that have been proposed for the coming special session.
Once Gov. Huckabee finishes baiting the courts for the right-wing gallery, he can spend days on end doing a passable imitation of a good Democrat. Maybe it is in service of his presidential ambitions, in which case he finally gives political expediency a
Sweetness and I have decided to open the bushbunker here at the house as a historical tourist attraction. This is the plastic-lined duct-taped facility in which we cowered through several months — or maybe it just seemed like months — back during the earl
Re: Jan. 5 broadcast of “Arkansans Ask: Gov. Mike Huckabee.”
Dear Governor Huckabee:
You say you haven’t seen proof of our innocence [the West Memphis Three]. I say that is possible but only if you haven’t searched.
Outside of the occasional momentum-breaking chats with the audience, young country superstars Rascal Flatts had a crowd of 14,119 fans whooping and hollering last Friday night.
Though he made his acting debut playing his famous father, Waylon Jennings, in the Johnny Cash biopic “Walk the Line” last year, make no mistake about Shooter Jennings — it’s all about music for him, and he has no plans for thespian pursuits.
BIG LOVE
9 p.m. Sunday, April 2
HBO (Comcast Digital Ch. 301)
P. ALLEN SMITH’S GARDEN HOME
11 a.m. Saturday, April 1
AETN (Comcast Ch. 3, Broadcast Ch. 2)
FRONTLINE: THE METH EPIDEMIC
8 pm. Tuesday, April 4
AETN (Comcast Ch. 3, Broadca
The Rib Crib in Benton is a carnivore’s delight — a place that would probably make your average vegan break out in hives if he ventured any closer than the sidewalk.
The Ozark Foothills Filmfest, which was started in Batesville by professor and film lover Bob Pest and his wife, Judy, has after five years found its way to Little Rock.
The public will be allowed to vote for the Best in Show award at the new Arkansas Sculptors Guild’s first juried show and sale Friday and Saturday, March 31 and April 1, in the east pavilion of the River Market.
The Little Rock Zoo will celebrate its 80th birthday Saturday, April 1,with the Verizon Wireless “Call of the Wild” event, a half day of fun for all ages.
Cold weather makes me scatter-brained (I write a week in advance, so if it’s 75 degrees when you read this, I swear I’m not that divorced from reality), so it’s an all-briefs column this week.