Opinion

LITTLE ROCK – Limiting children’s access to social media is still a priority for Arkansas policy makers. Last week, the governor sent a letter to the governors of all 50 states, and to all Arkansas legislators, urging them to continue working for meaningful restrictions on children’s use of social media platforms.

LITTLE ROCK – The state Education Department has written new rules for troubled schools to enter “transformation contracts” with outside entities, such as charter school operators. The Department will accept public comments until May 15 on the eight pages of proposed rules.

I read with great amusement the recent letter to the editor from Phil Freise. Phil is upset with all the graft, collusion, criminality, theft, conspiracies and downright bad manners he imputes to certain city officials in Bull Shoals.

The 2024 Fiscal Session of the General Assembly will commence on April 10, 2024, at noon. Following the House’s initial convening, there will be a brief recess before a Joint Session with the Senate to hear the Governor’s address.

This is in response to the letter written by Bull Shoals City Councilman Dino Gianini that was published in the March 21, edition of the Mountain Echo. Anybody who knows Councilman Giannini certainly recognizes that he did not author the letter as he is not that literate.

The Mountain Echo Staff The Bull Shoals Library is selling Solar Eclipse Glasses... each pair is $1.50.

Recently Bull Shoals City Councilman Dale Forbus made a post on the local Facebook page “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”. There is a lot of bad and ugly there, but it’s hard to find anything good.

The City Council is supposed to be the voice of the people. As long as, the citizens’ requests are reasonable and within the costs of the city budget, those reasonable requests must be adhered to.