Marble Falls Coming to Arkansas in 1970, it was hard to find a state that voted for more Democrats. Sure, there was the one northwestern congressional district in the Ozarks that had leaned Republican since protesting the state’s Civil War secession, but Arkansas was a barometer state in presidential politics, having voting for whoever …
Category: Policy
All Sales and No Shame for Co-op Coal Boosters
Marble Falls I read some of the opinion pieces that rural electric co-op leaders offer their members through their monthly combo-newsletters and ad-sheets. I sometimes find myself scratching my head as I read these editorial-propaganda pieces. I do so not necessarily because of what they are saying, but because of what they are deliberately …
Supreme Courts’ Leaking Sieve
Pearl River This is one of those crimes without criminals. US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s draft decision gutting the fifty-year precedent Roe v. Wade allowing women’s right to choose to have an abortion was leaked. Oh my, oh my! In a tither, the Chief Justice, the media, a legion of pundits expresses outrage and …