Brain Scars
March 24, 2016Vol 42 • No 29
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Finding Gary Busey
Puff, puff, pass?
The campaign for medical marijuana in Arkansas was a squeaker in 2012, with the outcome — and the availability of a medicine that supporters claim is vital for chronically ill patients — failing by less than 2 percent of the vote.
Judicial politics: It's time
The legislature will discuss judicial elections this year.
The major questions are related:
Should we elect judges at all?
If judges are to be elected, shouldn't we have more information about who pays to influence the outcomes?
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Prime time pozole, big burritos
For those of us who grew up on Browning's Mexican food in the 1960s, marveled when Juanita's introduced us to fajitas and Blue Mesa to white cheese dip in the 1980s and somehow still think Casa Manana and Senor Tequila are "authentic Mexican," it's nice to get tips about restaurants where the patrons are working-class folks for whom Spanish is the primary or only language, where the signs are in Spanish and the TV blares Mexican soap operas or music videos.
Ignoring the founders
Before Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell chose to deny President Obama his duty to appoint a Supreme Court justice, he might have asked himself the WWTFD question: What would The Founders do?
Charters not a choice for all
I am a special education teacher in the Little Rock School District and a parent of a kindergartner at Gibbs Magnet Elementary School. I love my job, I love my school and I love my community.