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Why oppose local control?
It would seem state Rep. Charlie Collins’ support of local control stops at the edge of Arkansas’ college and university campuses. Why does Collins distrust the administrations and boards of Arkansas institutions to make decisions on what is best and safest for their campuses? Is he so enamored of his ideas that he automatically assumes they should be embraced by everyone?
Let’s hope members of the Arkansas legislature do actually believe in local control and allow college and university officials to make the best decisions on who should be allowed to carry guns on their campuses.
GEORGIA ROSS
Fayetteville
Stop planting, killing trees
When will the city of Fayetteville stop killing trees? For the umpteenth time, trees the city planted in the median of College Avenue between Dickson Street and Lafayette Street were run over by careless drivers the other night. These medians are just not working.
The city should stop killing trees and wasting our taxpayer dollars. Please plant something else, or get rid of the median that does not seem to slow down drivers.
We all know how the median with the giant boulders on Dickson Street turned out.
Alline Fulton Phillips Fayetteville
It’s grits, with an ‘s’
While I would be the last person to defend Mike Huckabee’s politics, in fairness to him I am writing to correct the letter of Juli Odum (Letters, Jan. 26).
Arkansans are not grit-eaters; we eat grits. It is hard to put gravy on a single grit.
ETHEL C. SIMPSON Fayetteville