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Re: “Martha Shoffner's day in court”
"I guess that signals that the big jump in ammo hoarding appears to be a longer term phenomenon than earlier expected."
The greatest gun salesman in the history isn't retiring for a few more years.
Re: “Martha Shoffner's day in court”
"I'm no financial guru but wouldn't it be wise to sell them early if you thought interest rates were going to go lower?"
Other way around. Interest rates and bond prices move in opposite directions, so if you are trying to buy at low prices and sell at high prices, you should buy if you think interest rates are going down and sell if you think interest rates are going up.
There are other reasons to sell bonds, too. If you are worried about the default risk on a bond, you can try to sell it and let someone else deal with the risk. If the cash flow your bond portfolio provides doesn't match your needs, you can buy and sell bonds to adjust that. You may need cash now.
Re: “The death and taxes open line”
None. Fees are separate. I wonder how much of the tuition increase will be going to pay for the building spree that's been going on at Fayetteville for the last several years.
Re: “New study finds no water contamination by fracking in Arkansas”
That's all nice, cbb, but my point stands. If you want government funding for science, you are going to have to put up with Congressional meddling in science.
Re: “New study finds no water contamination by fracking in Arkansas”
“… it's a dangerous thing for Congress, or anybody else, to be trying to specify in detail what types of fundamental research NSF should be funding.”
While I agree, anyone that thinks Congress won't try is absolutely nuts. Don't want politicians meddling any science or anything else? Don't let them pay for it.
Re: “City Director Erma Hendrix unhappy about bike lanes”
"2) More importantly, bike lanes that are not physically separated from the roadway do not lead to safer conditions for bicyclists."
This is actually backwards. Unless the bike lane was installed above the roadway, it would intersect a road every hundred yards in an area like that around Main Street. Every hundred yards cyclists would be riding to the right of where someone could turn right. Do you look over your right shoulder for overtaking traffic before you make a right turn? No one does. Separated bike paths next to road ways, and to a slightly lower degree, bike lanes on roadways dump cyclists into the path of large chunks of metal operated by people who are not going to look for them.
Separated bike paths and bike lanes do not go well with urban grids like a good chunk of Little Rock. Fortunately for the cyclist, the urban grid does offer a plenitude of alternative routes. Don't like the road you are on? There is a different one a block over that is quieter and goes to the same place.
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Re: “ExxonMobil has a plan for Lake Maumelle watershed”
"But there is something odd about how it veers off toward the confluence of Cadron Creek into the Arkansas River. Is that for Jason Rapert's "Central Arkansas River Port" to sell natural gas to Communist China?"
It's avoiding west Conway.