The good intentioned people of the Quorum Court have passed to some of the voters, a measure that will extract yet another incremental tax increase from all of us. I say some voters because this will be on a May ballot which all involved know is lightly attended by the…
You've heard the old saying, "give a man a fish you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for life." So what if the man already knows how to fish but lives too far from the water to be able to fish.…
Below is Larry Woodall’s letter he send to Walton Arts Center after it announced that Ted Nugent would be performing in the summer First let me say a big thank you to WAC for its presence in NWA. I’ve enjoyed numerous concerts and art shows at your Dickson St location…
To the Editor: Last fall I was in your wonderful town visiting old friends. We drove past a school with a sign that read “We Give Praise To God For Providing ABC Summer Funding.” I was puzzled and asked my friends what the sign was about and they told us…
Different Neighborly Values To the Editor: As much as I would rather be outside working in my garden , I could not keep myself out there with a story from your paper rolling around in my head. Every ounce of my being requested that I give my opinion on the…
To the Editor, We have been taught in public schools that one of the important features of freedom is the “secret ballot.” The United States did not start out with a “secret ballot.” What we had was an open ballet and everyone was counted in front of the rest of…
More Shenanigans in the Water Dept? To the Editor, I am inspired by the previous issue’s Let- ter to the Editor, “Policies, Followed or Broken,” Dec. 29, 2011. I am wondering why a transfer of an em- ployee from the Water Commission Department to the City Budget was apparently done…
