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(10/02/08)
"Board eyes spike in euthanasia" makes for a gripping headline (see Sept. 25 Citizen); one sure to inflame and/or sadden many animal lovers. It implies that this heartless "board," the Good Shepherd Humane Society (GSHS) board of directors, is looking to increase the number of animals killed at the animal shelter. That implication is dead wrong...
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Eureka Springs, Arkansas ~ Monday, October 6, 2008
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Out Of Arkansas
(10/01/08)Arkansawyer The Arkansas River begins at Tennessee Pass in the Rocky Mountains, on the eastern side of the Continental Divide in West Central Colorado and then wends its way 1,450 miles across Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, ending just north of Arkansas City; here it empties into the Mississippi River...
Necessary commUNITY
(10/01/08) Without good food, little in the way of spirit is possible. Eureka Springs' grocery stores, large and small, recognize this. Hart's, the city's largest grocer, recognizes this when it reminds its patrons it's "more than a grocery store, it's a family center."...
Letters to the Editor
(10/01/08) Editor: My experience in Eureka Springs has grown progressively less enjoyable over the past few years with the increased number of motorcycles with aftermarket "drag" style exhaust pipes -- the main purpose being to increase the sound levels. I love this town, but the noise levels have become unbearable and the pleasure of being there is becoming a memory rather than a reality...
Letters to the Editor
(09/24/08) Editor: Bill Earngey's Sept. 18 column titled "Southern Politicians" exhibits a lack of knowledge of two of America's most important statesmen, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. Mr. Earngey stated "Both held grudges against each other that went down ugly to the grave."... 
Out Of Arkansas
(09/24/08)Somehow we have allowed corporate America to reduce us to the Middle Ages' economics, a two class society -- the Haves and the have Nots -- where in, if the Haves were in a good mood -- they would literally throw a bone to the Nots, which is a basic definition of the trickle-down theory of economics: When rich people make a lot of money, it trickles down to us as leftovers...
The Leftist agenda
(09/24/08) Until being critiqued recently by a reader for my "Leftist agenda," I'd never seriously researched the phrase to see what it is that I'm supposed to be advocating. What does it mean to have a "leftist agenda?" In ordinary usage, the words "left" and "right" are roughly equivalent to "liberal" and "conservative," i.e. "Democrat" and "Republican."... 
Small, slow & local
(09/17/08)Once in a while, say once a year, a farmers' market patron will walk to my table and make a comment about my vegetable prices being too high. Food prices are a big component of the American food landscape as it impacts the way people buy food and eat. Price evolution is also a major aspect of the late small-scale farming "renaissance" to which I will include my farm...
Letters to the Editor
(09/17/08) Editor: Sarah Palin is the perfect poster girl for the Republicans and the religious right. First off, she looks like a Barbie Doll and waves like a beauty queen, which will garner high marks with middle aged male neocons who have "Madonna/tramp" complexes...
Letters to the Editor
(09/17/08) Letters to the editor have always been a feature of American newspapers. They are an important tool in judging how well a newspaper is engaging its audience. Whereas the editorial suggests the newspaper's position on various issues, and news stories or features present their material in a neutral fashion, the letter to the editor is one place where any reader can voice an opinion, as long as it is articulate, does not contain libelous or obscene language and meets the paper's length requirements (250 words).. ...
Citizen Forum
(09/11/08) Editor: At the end of another amazing Lucky 13 Starlight Cinema season that celebrates our community and makes visitors from all over the country feel like official neighbors meeting the locals, it always ends with the perfect cliff hanger -- will we be back for another season?...
Out of Arkansas
(09/11/08) Here's a test to determine the extent of what TV drama has done to your thought process. The following lines are from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1. "To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?"...
Use your head
(09/11/08) Use your head Eureka Springs is the home of many well-kept but delightful secrets. One that comes to mind is the fact we are home to a world-class skateboard park in Harmon Park, designed by internationally prominent skateboard facility designers and builders Dreamworks, who have built skate parks all around the world...
Citizen Forum
(09/03/08) Editor: I've never paid much attention to Labor Day before, but this one is special -- it marks my first day as a retiree! (Ironic, eh?) As I happily plunge headlong into the Social Security pool (before the Baby Boomers dive in and splash all the benefits out), I want to say thank you to the many employers who (some simultaneously) kept me in bread and butter for the past quarter century in Eureka Springs... 
Out of Arkansas
(09/03/08)If cancer, heart attacks, accidents, murder and all that other stuff kill about two million people a year, why do we have a population problem? I mean, is there anybody here at all? Existentially speaking, you're alone. Have you ever tried to get a doctor's appointment in a big city? You can't. They're all attending conferences on tropical islands, thinking up new arguments about why nobody dies a natural death...
Editorial
(09/03/08) I breathed a big sigh of relief yesterday evening, as it became evident that Hurricane Gustav had missed New Orleans by a hair's breadth, landing instead west of the city near Atchafalaya Bay, south of the cities of Morgan City and Houma. The storm -- which was downgraded from a possible Category 4 to a Category 3, and by the time it came ashore, a Category 2 -- held the promise of being another Katrina, and everybody held their breath for what seemed like years, until it was a clear miss...
Citizen Forum
(08/27/08) Editor: I remember well the opening day of the Little Bread Company on July 22, 2004. And those who attended the Grand Opening on October 13th of that year will never forget the party attended by more than 500 people, as Yao Angelo and friends filled Eureka hearts with the joy of music and dance, while Hannah and Ben and friends celebrated the new beginning of their fabulous dream of fresh, wholesome food served in happy surroundings with good friends. ...
Out of Arkansas
(08/27/08) Although the streets of Eureka don't want to be meanies -- like shrink resistant socks don't really want to shrink, but they just might -- the following are among the most verbally abused streets by new residents, who "fell in love with Eureka" without acquiring the perverse pleasure of trying to find streets that famously meld, dissolve, reform and splinter...
Another View
(08/27/08) Recently a Eureka Springs developer, Chris Bradley, was turned down by the Historic District Commission to put a metal roof on a new home in Eureka because commission members felt it "jarred" with the houses around it. I would encourage this decision be appealed to the City Council, which has unanimously adopted the U.S. Mayor's Climate Protection Agreement (http://www.usmayors.org/climateprotection/) striving to have city codes to help combat climate change... 
The Natural Way
(08/21/08)Suppose you just hate to eat veggies? Those green things that cook down to grey soft globs of goop that instantly take you back to your mother's cooking. There she is insisting you eat at least one bite before leaving the dinner table and you become six years old again... |
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