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DAVIS: The Value of a Lake

June 20, 2011

"The potential recreational value of a large lake, which would be created by the proposed Saline River dam, is evident in last year's attendance at similar lakes which have become major recreational attractions. Lake Ouachita, formed by the Blakely Mountain dam near Hot Springs, had 1,743,000 visitors, and Bull Shoals reservoir, extending from Northern Arkansas into Southern Missouri, had 1,663,000. The lake impounded by the proposed Saline dam would not be as large as these two, and the number of visitors it would attract annually is a matter of speculation.

Shelby Says: Is Snapchat harmless or hurtful

May 15, 2013

By Shelby Woodall

The photo-sharing phenomenon that is sweeping smart phones across the nation allows users to share a photo that will essentially "self-destruct" in a given amount of time, only to disappear from the electronic world forever.
Or does it?
Snapchat is a photo-sharing app that allows you to take a picture, send that picture to another Snapchat user and after a certain amount of time chosen by the sender, the photo is deleted and the receiver can no longer see the photo.

Common Sense: Remembering mom

May 15, 2013

By Brent Davis, editor of The Saline Courier

A gentle smile and a friendly "My, me! Come see me!" Eyes that invited you to sit a spell. A soul lit from within that shared its glow with all who came into contact with it. A heart as big as all outdoors. A love of people that drew no distinction between family or friend. A faith that never waivered or doubted.
A wife. A sister. An aunt. A mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.
Words fail to adequately describe my mother, Roberta Davis.

Sense and Nonsense: Coming full circle with year of firsts

May 14, 2013

By Lynda Hollenbeck

When it's a baby, all of the "firsts" are exciting. There's the first smile, the first word, the first tooth, the first step.
It's a world of unfolding miracles. Each day is surpassed only by the one yet to come.
Then there is the other side of the picture — the rite of passage no one chooses — the one that brings the firsts you never wanted.
There's the first birthday without the one who was loved most; the first Father's Day; the first Thanksgiving; the first Christmas; the first Easter; and — the hardest of all — the first anniversary of the person's death.

Bullies play a different game these days

May 10, 2013

By Steve Boggs, publisher of The Saline Courier

Have you ever seen a belt line? They don’t exist anymore, but when I was kid, our school’s FFA chapter made the belt line part of its initiation process. Freshmen who wanted to join FFA had to learn the creed and recite it before being accepted into the chapter. Those who failed to learn the creed had a choice: Run the belt line, or wash out.

Sense and Nonsense: Kindness to all is objective of national week

May 7, 2013

By Lynda Hollenbeck

It's all about kindness.
That's at the very heart of my favorite national observance: Be Kind to Animals Week.
First off, from my point of view, the objective of this event should be that there never should be any need to have such a focus. It's a common-sense, common-decency thing.
Being kind to all of God's creatures should be second nature. Every day. Every minute of every day. On and on, ad infinitum.
Unfortunately, this utopia-like existence for those without speech isn't a reality, but many strides have been made in the movement.

SHELBY SAYS: Today's teens: Do we really have a voice?

May 2, 2013

“How would you know? You’re too young!” Just one of the many responses today’s youth get when we try to voice our opinion on an issue. It seems a growing amount of younger American citizens are putting the “two cents” into the debates happening around our country.
As a fellow American youth, I can vouch for the claim that today’s generation is very opinionated. However, there are many times when adults or even older teens reject our input because of our age.
Curiosity led me to conduct a survey within my high school. The first question was, “Do you know what liberal and conservative are?”

Enter the Net: Internet brings people together

April 24, 2013

By David Hughes

One of the wonderful things about the Internet is the “wild west” atmosphere it continues to enjoy. By that I mean this electronic frontier is a place where anyone can have an idea, present it – and to quote Capt. Jean-Luc Picard – “make it so.”
Not only that, depending on the complexity of the idea and the talent, or willingness to learn how to do it, that idea can come to fruition literally in an instant or over an extended period of time.

We the People: Are elected officials doing what we pay them to do?

April 23, 2013

Have you been paying attention to local and Arkansas state politics? The Arkansas Republican controlled House and Senate are in the process of reducing income taxes for anyone making an adjusted income of $44,000 or more per year. As if that is not bad enough, they are reducing the capital gain taxes for their wealthy friends. So much for supporting Arkansas, middle class and poor residents. Arkansas Republicans campaigned promising to reduce taxes. Truth be told, that is exactly what they are doing for some.

Conservative Corner: American dream?

April 23, 2013

By Nancy Carlton

I have one problem to deal with while writing my column today: I need lots more space - I need an entire page. Whew!
As a Republican, I am veritably jumping up and down in place, trying to encourage, urge, pester, and otherwise goad our “first Republican majority in 138 years” to follow through with the mission with which we entrusted them, and not be hornswoggled into caving to pressures from the establishment. They have done a good job with vital new laws to protect “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”.

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