QUESTION: As a new gardener, I was wondering if I can still have a nice garden and grow vegetables without using a lot of chemicals? I have young children and several pets. I don’t want to take a chance having these things around or contaminating our living space.
As a senior member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, I’ve been blessed to play an active role in updating Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) policies including expanding access to health care, improving suicide prevention efforts and eliminating barriers for women veterans to receive VA care and services. I’m continuing that commitment to the men and women who served in uniform. In recent days, the House of Representatives approved a trio of legislative initiatives I championed that are now headed to the president’s desk to be signed into law.
Memorial Day will soon be here and Americans will celebrate the first Veterans holiday of the year. Memorial Day is always celebrated on the last Monday of May, which is also a national holiday.
A couple of Huntsville School Board members showed their true colors last week, and they weren’t the maroon and white of the district. The board last week voted to approve the transfer of Superintendent Audra Kimball to director of personnel and program compliance. Jonathan Warren will move from that position into the position of superintendent.
On behalf of all Arkansans, I’m honored to mark National Police Week and Peace Officers Memorial Day by paying tribute to our law enforcement officers in The Natural State and across our country.
We were alerted recently to a firestorm in the upcoming Republican primary, which takes place Tuesday, caused by a recent column.
My granddaughter, Nicole Mitchell, graduated last Thursday from Johnson County Westside High School in Coal Hill. That’s the good news. The bad news became evident quickly as my wife and I attended the ceremony in Coal Hill, near Clarksville.
The recent Daily Sentinel editorial column “Waste Not, Want Not at the Pumps” struck a nerve. The common sense solutions offered are things we all can do to reduce our spending on gasoline. Yet I …
Waste not, want not at the fuel pumps. Sticker shock at the gas pumps might remind motorists to follow some good advice from Benjamin Franklin: “Waste not, want not.” Conservation is a key …
Congratulations to the more than 160 high school seniors in Madison County who will go through graduation this week and next. Ceremonies are scheduled in Huntsville and St. Paul this week, beginning at Eagle Stadium in Huntsville on Thursday. Hopefully the grass turf has had enough time to dry out from the enormous amount of rain in the past several weeks.