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• The yawning teacher pay gap between Arkansas school districts

  Before Arkansas congratulates itself for outpacing Oklahoma on teacher pay, we should take a look at the huge disparity in salaries within the state. New teachers in Bentonville may make almost $46,000 a year, but new teachers in many other districts will start the 2018-19 school year earning $31,800 — less than the starting salary in Tulsa.

• Anonymous Harding University students relaunch LGBTQ publication, campus security removes copies

  A group of anonymous Harding University students on Friday published an "HU Queer Press 2.0" zine, covering issues of gay rights at the private, Churches of Christ-affiliated campus in Searcy. A similar publication, "The State of the Gay at Harding University," set off a firestorm of controversy at Harding seven years ago. Shortly after the publication was distributed, campus security officers began gathering the copies of the zine and throwing them in the trash.

• Jan Morgan and Rep. Dan Sullivan slapped with ethics complaint

  While anti-establishment outsiders might be more likely to be clumsy or amateurish enough to actually get caught, it's worth noting that mainstream candidates have a fully legal version of the scam that Sullivan and Morgan are accused of running.

• New poll finds Asa Hutchinson with sizeable lead over Jan Morgan, plus support for continuing Medicaid expansion among Republican primary voters

  A new poll from Talk Business finds that Governor Hutchinson has a substantial lead over Jan Morgan, the hog-riding, Muslim-banning, gun-toting, airbrushing, RINO-busting gadfly from Hot Springs. And in a doozy of a finding, a substantial plurality of likely voters in the Republican primary now support the Medicaid expansion program.

• UA Little Rock response to "racially insensitive incident" prompts discussion on campus

  An update to the imbroglio at UA Little Rock over a brief video of fraternity and sorority students singing along to a racial slur in rap song.

Most Recent Comments

• Re: The yawning teacher pay gap between Arkansas school districts

  • Perhaps the baker can pay the underpaid teachers a decent salary!!!!!

  • Posted by theBMC1
  • on April 23, 2018

• Re: The yawning teacher pay gap between Arkansas school districts

  • Perhaps all the underpaid teachers could look for positions in the private sector.

  • Posted by baker
  • on April 23, 2018

• Re: Anonymous Harding University students relaunch LGBTQ publication, campus security removes copies

  • What happened to all you First Amendment folks of the conservative bent? Whoops, never mind,…

  • Posted by wannabee conservative
  • on April 23, 2018

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