Saturday, February 18, 2006
At Home Saturday
Ray Lincoln used to say that all the "good" news shows up in the Saturday paper. Saturday is on the edge of the "news cycle," and smart people with bad news try to postpone it for the weekend when folks are distracted.
The Forrest City Times-Herald has an excellent piece today about how the Chief of Police has set up a quota for officers to write tickets of be fired. Of course, he adamantly denies it to the paper, which only makes the story more amusing. The point of it all is that, if you go 10 over the speed limit in Forrest City, you get a ticket. If the Chief of Police blatantly disobeys state law to get you ticketed, nothing happens.
The Russellville Courier is always one of my best sources and today the reporters tell about how a popular but outspoken associate professor at Arkansas Tech is pushed out. Of course, the administration insists that there will be no acts of retaliation for those who might disagree, but I suggest keeping that lip buttoned. At Arkansas Tech, academic freedom is not an abstract concept, it is a cruel joke.
The Forrest City Times-Herald has an excellent piece today about how the Chief of Police has set up a quota for officers to write tickets of be fired. Of course, he adamantly denies it to the paper, which only makes the story more amusing. The point of it all is that, if you go 10 over the speed limit in Forrest City, you get a ticket. If the Chief of Police blatantly disobeys state law to get you ticketed, nothing happens.
The Russellville Courier is always one of my best sources and today the reporters tell about how a popular but outspoken associate professor at Arkansas Tech is pushed out. Of course, the administration insists that there will be no acts of retaliation for those who might disagree, but I suggest keeping that lip buttoned. At Arkansas Tech, academic freedom is not an abstract concept, it is a cruel joke.
