Opinion

School Safety Measures

Little Rock – When it meets in special session the legislature will consider a $50 million grant program for school safety measures. The governor proposed making grants available for schools that need financial help to implement recommendations made recently by the Arkansas School Safety Commission.
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Glorified babysitter pay …

We are entering a dangerous time in our society when people with knowledge and experience are largely ignored and people with no experience are revered. Suddenly it seems everyone in the world is an expert and anyone with an opinion feels they are an authority.
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Democrats release RAISE Act to help teachers

Arkansas House and Senate Democrats released a plan today to raise teacher salaries by $4,000 and raise the minimum teacher salary from $36,000 to $42,000. The Raising Arkansas’s Investment in Schools and Educators (RAISE) Act would use $600 million from the estimated $1.6 billion surplus to create a fund that will allow the raises to be indefinitely sustainable based on current projections. Democrats urged Governor Asa Hutchinson to include their proposed legislation in the August special session so that teachers can get a raise now.
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My Mom Had an Alias

Actually, she had several. Mom, Mama, and, when my teenage-self was sure she was about to embarrass me, the familiar “Mother!”, with the accompanying eye roll so familiar to many parents.
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Dressed to Grill

In hip hop culture, a grill is dental jewelry for inside your mouth so your teeth can sparkle with gold or diamonds. In a car, a grille covers an opening in the body of a vehicle to allow air flow. If someone is up in your grill, they are confrontational. If you’re getting grilled, someone’s asking you a lot of intense questions.
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Some Like it Hot

It’s hot out there. Real hot. How hot? Well, it’s since the 1980’s, each decade has been warmer than the previous one. And, since there’s not a big concerted push to do much about it, you should expect the trend to continue. It’s going to be hot. Smoking hot. Like the end of “Raiders of the Lost Arc” where the guy’s face melts off
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