As it turns out, this state's Department of Environmental Quality may actually have an interest in environmental quality. Or at least it will no longer be issuing any more of those controversial general permits that allow concentrated animal feeding operations in the Buffalo River watershed. Not because any of the state's entrepreneurs or investors have seen the light, but because not a one is interested in going through all the paperwork and permits involved in starting one up again.
Hell's bells, hooray and whew. Like most of us Arkies/Arkansans/Arkansawyers--whichever appellation you prefer--we're sick and tired of the whole subject, distraction and sideshow. Enough! Who needs it? There are far better ways to lose friends and make enemies. Let's move on to something simpler, like the state's arcane formula for distributing state aid to its school districts, which has always been enough to cross any "expert's" eyes.
Between the intricacies of the (not so) Clean Water Act and the state's formula for distributing aid to its school districts, it's hard to tell which one is more likely to reduce this state's population to a mass of blithering idiots. Goodbye and good riddance! Not even the hogs may care about all that by now.
Editorial on 05/05/2016