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Your team, your government, your dollars - Baxter Bulletin (opens the original)
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Almost three months into a new fiscal year for state government, and with only days remaining in the calendar year’s third quarter, some items about money — yours, the bulk of it. — The trustees of the University of Arkansas system have ordered its president, Jay Silveria, to find more cash for the football team. Not in so many words, mind you; their directive called for (read, demanded) a review of “the state of competitiveness of Razorback Athletics, including steps to improve the resources av
Gulf of … Renewal - Baxter Bulletin (opens the original)
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PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. – Politics did not rear its head, not in a serious way, certainly not in the way it can divide, can poison any gathering, even a family reunion. No, there were guffaws when one of us, among the most conservative of us, pointed to the water and exhibited a previously unknown appreciation of the patently ridiculous. “Behold, the Gulf of America!” he exclaimed.(There would be similar gales of laughter when, a couple days later, the White House social-media feed allowed that th
Hogs: Uncertain seasons - Baxter Bulletin (opens the original)
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The kids, most of them, have been back in school since mid-August, and their older sibs and cousins are back in their dorms or wherever undergrads gravitate. The, uh, student-athletes are back on the practice field, in between meetings with their investment advisors and their agents. Meantime, the athletic directors, who have their own agents, as do the coaches, are poring over spread sheets, trying to either make the numbers work or pondering how to increase them, or both. University presidents
A salute to the diary - Baxter Bulletin (opens the original)
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From a reporter’s diary: Darrell Hickman did more to make Arkansas better by saying “No” than most anyone else in government did by saying “Yes.” Or by looking the other way. A White County native of modest beginnings, Hickman understood manual labor from experience; it paid for his college education and his law degree. The law degree entitled him to successfully challenge at the polls a politically tainted judge of the state’s since-abolished chancery courts. Hickman’s candidacy was, in effect,
Measuring losses - Baxter Bulletin (opens the original)
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Please permit a couple of friends to do most of the writing this time. It’s not a columnist defaulting to laziness; the two accounts that follow almost certainly will resonate with most readers. Both matters started their trek to this newspaper page in emails to yours truly. The first of the two episodes (each has to do with mortality) stems from a dynamic that has involved, or soon enough will involve, every family, large or small. We begin with a message from a pal of decades, transmitted last
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