Opinion

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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Buffalo National River Bureaucracy

2022 is the 50th year anniversary of the establishment of the Buffalo National River. It was hailed as a milestone in the protection of a pristine river by taking it from a state park to a national park with the main effort in halting the river from having a dam put in place. However, as with most federal bureaucracies, they have taken more and more authoritative power to the point of dictating how the state should conduct government affairs outside the boundaries of the national park. They have accomplished this by refusing to publicly acknowledge their own limitations that have been put into place, not only by the National Park Service, but by the federal government as well.
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Time for a Change

Marion County it is time for change. Our County Judge stands accused of inappropriate touching of an employee working under him. The local rumor mill says that we will soon be hearing of thousands of dollars of supplies missing from the road shop.
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BEYOND REASON Dry

So, January is many things, but I think the word most people use to describe it is “long”. Yes, technically it’s tied for the longest month of the year with others but I’d like to see any other month look hard and long into the cold, grey eyes of January and see who blinks first.
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