By God builds His temple with living stones As a Christian faith writer, I am blessed with God providing me with spiritual insights and considerations to relay to others. He creates opportunities for me to share, however, what I do is not anything more special than how millions of other Christians are serving Him, and I humbly acknowledge that most are more talented and effective than myself. I’m just a small piece…
James Sturch, Arkansas Senator The Senate and House Committees on Education are scheduled to vote on next year’s adequacy report at their meeting in early October.The committees went over a draft of the adequacy report at their September meeting. The legislature has been conducting adequacy reviews since 2003, to ensure that state funding of public schools is constitutionally adequate and equitable. The committee’s final report is due November 1.There is heightened interest…
Russell Stokes, Cherokee Village Mayor School has begun and it’s important to be alert to vehicle traffic in the vicinity of all the schools in the Highland School District; especially at the opening of the school day and again at time of dismissal. Remember the rules about the loading and unloading of students on school buses. Do not pass a stopped school bus when students are boarding or exiting the bus.Labor Day…
Asa Hutchinson, Arkansas Governor Today, I’d like to talk about the celebration of Labor Day and the importance of our workforce.Barbeques, pool parties, and parades are a common occurrence when Americans today celebrate Labor Day, but it wasn’t always about friends and families getting together for fun.One hudred twenty-seven years ago, President Grover Cleveland signed a bill making the first Monday of September a national holiday. But the work it took to…
Leslie Rutledge, Arkansas Attorney General Arkansas Attorney General Rutledge announced that a federal district court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled in favor of Arkansas and forty-one other states, allowing the coalition to proceed with its antitrust lawsuit against Indivior, Inc. and Reckitt Benckiser Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for market manipulation of their product Suboxone, a prescription medication commonly used to treat opioid addiction.“Thousands of individuals rely on Suboxone to aid them in…
