Funding for Jimmy Cunningham s planned downtown cultural district looked a little less certain Thursday night after a City Council member said he felt the money was at risk.
A series of stories in The Commercial recently by reporter Eplunus Colvin on the "what s next" aspect of the failed Go Forward Pine Bluff-sponsored sales tax shows even a lesser extent of transparency than initially thought. In that sense, we believe more firmly that the voters thumbs down on the five-eighths-cent tax was well deserved.
Calvin Booker Sr., formerly of Pine Bluff, received The President s Council on Service and Civic Participation award from the office of the president of the united States.