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In a letter to the editor back in February, one writer had this to say about me: "I don't resent his commentary about Gov. Sarah Sanders, former President Donald Trump or any other Republican. But I do resent his negative comments while giving the impression he's writing from a Republican perspective. Rex, you're now a Democrat. It's time to quit pretending."
The Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism is spending $84,000 as a co-sponsor this year of the Black Deer Festival of Americana music in Kent, England, after having first sponsored the event in 2022.
For every good idea at the Ledge (like LEARNS), there's a bad idea. We can remember some years when we would've begged for 50-50.
It's been a long time since we thought about "school district consolidation" and the debate surrounding it. Didn't Arkansas go through all this in the early aughts? We remember some folks saying school district consolidation would End Public Education As We Know It, as all education reform is described. But that didn't happen, although several school districts were, indeed, consolidated.