In light of the chronic complaints about lethal injection being “cruel and unusual punishment”, this In The News item in Tuesday’s Arkansas Democrat/Gazette caught my attention:
 

It is common practice to generalize, to reduce whole philosophies and belief systems to a one-sentence sound bite or a buzzword to make it more easily digested by the masses.

Are the days of community journalism over?  Is newspaper journalism dead?
 

On the Same age with Michele Page.

Aother Angle, with Jennifer Barnhill, classifieds rep at The Daily World.

There’s a short and sweet version for everything.  It either is or isn’t and the same goes for the state’s Freedom of Information Act, lovingly called the FOIA. 
 

There is an absolute truth. Believe it. Take it to the bank.
On any sunny day, the sky is blue. And on any given spring day, the grass is green. You can argue on these two facts until you turn purple but a fact is a fact and believing otherwise will not change a thing. The truth does not change just because we don’t like it.
 

Well, here we go again.
Those are the immortal words former President Ronald Reagan uttered when he faced opposition from Congress or criticism from the media.

Arkansas legislators are preparing to make driving and talking on the cell phone a no-no.

City under siege.  Something had to happen.

It’s a presidential election year, which rings to mind something very basic about politics:

drifted into my thoughts.  A news outlet reported that 22 children across America have died because their parent or parents left them in an automobile in the heat.

Monday had to be the hottest day of the season and we haven’t reached August which is commonly referred to as the Dog Days of Summer.

A person in the spotlight has it tough; just ask 2008 Miss USA Crystle Stewart and her predecessor Rachel Smith.  

Road rage is killing the American Dream.