Letters to the editor
Anyone who tells me that an 18-year-old should have the right to buy an automatic or semi-automatic weapon capable of reducing a 10-year-old kid to a pile of g…
June 23, 2022Juneteenth tribute
by Lafayette Woods Jr. Special to The Commercial June 22, 2022Re Rod Neal's recent letter in the Voices section, boy, did he hit the nail on the head. I moved to Arkansas in 1962 to go to school.
June 22, 2022Writers when voicing opinions should have a bit of knowledge about the subject. Mike Masterson concludes Chicago gun laws have no effect on school shootings an…
June 21, 2022It seems our gutless and feckless senators and representatives refuse to even consider comprehensive background checks and red-flag measures that 90 percent of…
June 20, 2022Have you noticed the high number of youngsters dying too soon in Pine Bluff?
by Jesse Turner Special to The Commercial June 19, 2022Fragile connections
June 19, 2022Nothing will change
June 18, 2022In response to Karen Owings' letter, I wonder if your mother thought you were a burden she couldn't afford or wished she didn't have? Probably not, because you…
June 17, 2022I believe proposals to raise the age to buy guns, background checks, red-flag laws, and put an AR-15 off-limits only work for law-abiding citizens, not outlaws…
June 16, 2022Doing a little research into our inflation problem, I have found that inflation currently is a global problem.
June 15, 2022We haven't reached our current situation overnight. We won't win this overnight.
June 14, 2022Time for Henry Kissinger to retire. He is out of sync with the world's politics today.
June 13, 2022Each week that passes, I think that things just can't get worse, but then they do.
June 12, 2022Responsibility is his
June 11, 2022