The multipart sale-tax increase passed in Fayetteville on Tuesday. Those who love to taunt the city doubtless will mock the smaller percentage approving the bit for continued construction of trails, as compared to the 3-to-1 majorities for the sewage treatment and road improvements. Specifically, according to the NWA Times (and here) and The Morning News […]
In Sunday’s newspaper the columnist for the gubmint’s Master Gardener program (slogan: “No vegetable problem than can’t be solved with a chemical spray”) answers this question: Why are there so many mushrooms on lawns around town?” While the nice lady explains about fungus in three quick sentences, she senses that the reader surely does not […]
Let us now praise The Home Depot. It has won my heart for the next spell, by its stock, its helpful clerks, its new auto-checkout stands and not least, a consistent lack of crazy drivers in its parking lot. Yes, this is a prize that alternates with Loew’s. Every year or so, I am forced […]
Everybody has something to say about today, and what happened five years ago, today. Where is the numerology for the ninth month and eleventh day? Or the date of the first Trade Center attack. Or the hit on the USS Cole. Or the attack in Madrid. The one on London buses and subways. What would […]
On an infamous morning like 9/11, the one five years ago, you don’t know what terror the afternoon will see. Evening finally came, and whether or not you had constant access to television during the day, you sure kept your eyes on the tube that night. To make sense of it? Yes, but more, so […]
I am reading the new biography ‘All Governments Lie’: The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone by Myra MacPherson. Mr. Stone worked for a few years at the famous experimental New York newspaper P.M. Reading again about the trendsetting daily of the late 1940s and early 1950s was coincident given the news […]