Why is the city of Baxter involved in Kuepers Inc. building Sprucewood Townhomes? City governments should not be involved in regulating housing projects, or raising taxes to pay for a single company’s project, or zoning, or permits, or regulating architecture. The state government should not issue...

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Just over year ago, a friend asked me to help out with the political campaign of a young, up-and-coming candidate running for office for the first time. I had always been somewhat interested in politics but had never been involved in a campaign. Taylor Stevenson asked me to be the change I wished to...

There has been a lot written about homosexuals having the right to marry and should that right be left up to public vote.  By all means, if we are going to live in this state the public should have some say in what goes on.  My objection is to the use of the word marriage. Up until now if ...

 There was a poker game going on where all the players were different  combinations of race, religion, gender, and sexual preference. The game had  been going on for quite some time and numerous players had lost all or most  of their chips. The big winner at the table was a Cauca...

“Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and  four times seven is — oh dear! I shall never get to 20 at that rate!”  —Alice from ‘Alice in Wonderland’...

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The conflict of interest speculation on the airport commission and the recent editorial to include the county and city committees and commissions  leads me to ask — What about the school board? Can someone who is a retired/current school district employee or has a family member who is a curre...

Some recent letters to the Dispatch have attacked President Obama’s  personal integrity with unsubstantiated character allegations in the guise of policy disagreement. He allegedly has a hidden “true agenda” and a “mysterious force ... greed for power.” This is polarizing negative rhe...

 One of the great ironies of our time is the dumbing down of the America public about debt. The very thing politicians are demonizing is the same thing banks and corporations are using to get very rich. It’s debt.  ...