One-term Fayetteville Mayor Lioneld Jordan and former two-term mayor Dan Coody both say they will not accept the lucrative public pensions that would available to them for serving in that position. Coody already has taken the definitive step of transferring his city 401-K fund into a private IRA, which under law eliminated any possibility of [...]

The community college administrator fired earlier this month for a lost of purported transgressions is asking for an appeal. Marty Parsons, the former senior vice president for administrative services and chief financial officer at Northwest Arkansas Community College, had filed an appeal to his firing. And he’s bringing a six-attorney law firm to the table [...]

What the Overstuffed-Draw-String-Trash-Bags do you suppose is up with Maylon T. Rice, the director of the Boston Mountain Solid Waste District,(and a former reporter for the NWA Times during my era as its editor between 1995 and 2000)? Washington County Judge Marilyn Edwards announced the other day that Rice, also an unsuccessful Democrat candidate for [...]

Look, I’ll readily admist that I’m far from being the sharpest pencil in the pack or crayon in the box, but I’m hoping someone with a crystal clear mind and ability to articulate can explain something for me when it comes to the way our government today defines mass killing. When a white supremecist shoots [...]

Just when a candidate for congress emerges to perhaps lead our deeply ailing nation and corrupted government into a new period of hope and change; and just when our hopes are bolstered that maybe here, at long last, is a law-abiding Democrat who will lead the lost sheep of the Second Congressional District out of [...]

  Bobby Petrino did what most of us would do under similar circumstances, I’m convinced. He went back home to lick his wounds and reflect publicly on the mess he made of his career and his life as the once high-flying, overly-confident head coach of the Razorbacks. And I had to admire his candor and [...]

Good for Springdale! Those who run that city decided to exchange a modified zoning change and issue  height and size sign variances  for what hopefully will amount to perhaps as much as $110 thousand in sales taxes and between 40 and 70 new jobs for that town in the coming year. That’s because the popular [...]

Well, well now, ask and ye shall received. Just yesterday I wrote that the taxpayers and voters of Benton County deserved to know the reasons why Marty Parsons the Chief Financial Officer and vice president of administrative affairs at the Northwest Arkansas Community College, was unceremoniously canned from his job. And today, PRESTO!, there’s a [...]

Marty Parsons appeared to be going great guns at the Northwest Arkansas Community College in Bentonville. He arrived two years ago from the University of Michigan, a fine institution of higher education by any measure. A year later in July, 2011, he did such a fine job that he was promoted to senior vice president [...]

It was interesting to see UA Chancellor David Gearhart openly discuss the firing of Razorback football coach Bobb Petrino was such honesty. For him and those he gathered around him to help make the final decision hat petrino had to go, the matters of fundamental honesty and morals seemed paramount. “The moral issue was important [...]