By chance, I was traveling through McGhee and Dumas 20 minutes before this storm hit. Let me tell you, the winds and rains were vicious and there was no doubt in my mind that the tornado watch was soon to be a warning. If I hadn’t stopped for an early lunch in Pine Bluff I […]

 It’s always been the dirty little secret in Arkansas, where the accounting of the dollars in sports progams is hid so you and I can’t see it. There might be some very angry parents if they found that the music and arts programs were cut, but the sports programs got more money. This op-ed piece […]

As of Friday, the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration said it has collected about $ 478 million in unallocated revenue.
But that money isn’t segregated from the money that flows in and out of the state treasury.
On the treasury books, the surplus simply doesn’t exist.
Even if it did, the sum doesn’t faze treasury officials.
“That $ […]

Congressional Democrats still hold a sizeable advantage over President Bush in who the public trusts to handle the Iraq war, though the gap has narrowed somewhat since Bush’s State of the Union speech, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
With Bush’s approval ratings mired by the unpopular war, Americans trust Congressional Democrats over Bush […]