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June 3, 2004

Vol 2 • No 20

What consolidation? - The more things change

There was no question Umpire would go.

The University of Athletics

The federal court trial of Nolan Richardson versus the University of Arkansas, now in its 18th day, makes it perfectly clear that the UA has become an athletic rather than an academic university.

Holiday shooting gallery

You probably know the drill. We have a long holiday weekend and I face the requisite production of an extra column in order to avail myself and my associates at the Arkansas News Bureau of a day off on Monday. It's for the sake of the associates and their loved ones, mainly, that I do this. If it was just me, I'd work 24-7.

Ranger Wipe World

The pard and I returned to the Kolumnistbunker last week, heeding new, urgent warnings of the Homeland Security geniuses that great menace might be once again afoot, although concerning who, where, when or how none of them had the first clue.

Mail brings a revelation

The Arkansas Arts Center is taking a look at its building rental policies as a result of complaints about plans to rent the Arts Center theater to evangelists for 21 nights.

This security is perfectly absurd

The cheap Bic ballpoint pen, being, as everyone knows, mightier than the sword in an journalist's hand, ended up on the list of banned items for last week's A Perfect Circle concert at Alltel Arena.

Momentous folly

Two remarkable events in the media world in the final days of May passed barely noticed. They deserved wider attention because they explain better than anything else does the most momentous folly of our time.

Popularity contest

If you chose school superintendents by popular votes, Little Rock's interim superintendent, Morris Holmes, would seem the favorite to get the job permanently.

When iris eyes are not smiling

A recent visitor to the state Capitol was disappointed when he found he'd missed the blooming season of the irises on the Capitol grounds. He was further agitated to discover that the iris bed isn't even in its old place of honor at the foot of the steps on the south side of the Capitol, having been moved to a less visible location a few hundred yards away, and that there's discussion of removing the irises from the Capitol grounds entirely. That would be a serious blow to grounds that already have too much bad statuary where flowers could be growing.
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