Dana D. Kelley
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Recent Stories by Dana D. Kelley
Valuing victims of crime
posted: 02/10/2012 3:58 a.m. Comment 1
One of the greatest challenges in dealing with violent crime is assessing its cost to society.
Link economic development and education
posted: 12/16/2011 5:04 a.m. Comment 1
Economic development is always a challenge, but never more so than in small towns, which are often beleaguered with competitive disadvantages.
Special interest centennial
posted: 12/09/2011 3:59 a.m. Discuss
Christmas has been characterized by some as the season of gullibility, and apparently White House strategists sensed a chance to exploit the holiday sentimentality this week when they organized a presidential speech in the same Kansas town from which Theodore Roosevelt launched his “New Nationalism” program a century ago.
Crazy like a fox
posted: 12/02/2011 5:07 a.m. Comment 1
Thirty years after narrowly failing to assassinate President Ronald Reagan, John Hinckley Jr. is ready to be de-institutionalized.
Learning impediment
posted: 11/18/2011 3:11 a.m. Discuss
It seems like Arkansas suffers from a learning disability when it comes to the state lottery. First, despite our state’s poor showing on every income measure against our 49 other union counterparts—average, median, per capita, household—the Arkansas Legislature somehow settled on a lottery director salary of $141,603.
An issue to own
posted: 11/11/2011 4:20 a.m. Discuss
When online news site Business Insider published an article listing 20 places that might be the next Silicon Valley, everybody was surprised that two counties in Arkansas made the top 10.
Scholarship sinkhole
posted: 11/04/2011 4:19 a.m. Comments 5
Maybe you caught a whiff of the news last week about 40 percent of Arkansas college freshmen losing their lottery scholarship eligibility.
Fun, fright and the Feds
posted: 10/28/2011 4:14 a.m. Comment 1
We should celebrate the triumphs of civilization, since even in these most modern of times the news is often full of the most uncivilized inhumanity.
iTribute
posted: 10/07/2011 4:49 a.m. Discuss
How fitting that I learned of Steve Jobs’ passing through a news alert on my iPhone. It’s likely that many of the other 100 million iPhone users out there had a similar experience. Following the AP alert, I received several text messages as well as Facebook notifications.
A more believable story
posted: 09/30/2011 4:20 a.m. Discuss
The din against the death penalty reached an apex in media circles last week after the execution of Troy Davis in Georgia.
