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A $40 Trillion debt Party
By Steve Brawner © 2023 by Steve Brawner Communications, Inc.
Sun,08/24/25-8:00AM , 402 Reads
The national debt reached a new milestone this week. Did anybody notice?
Maybe a party would help.
Sam Sicard, president and CEO of First National Bank of Fort Smith, offered that suggestion in a text message Tuesday.
The day before, the national debt had reached $37 trillion.
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Redrawing maps versus governing well
By Steve Brawner © 2023 by Steve Brawner Communications, Inc.
Sun,08/24/25-7:00AM , 423 Reads
Sometimes politicians try to win elections by governing well. Sometimes they try to win by manipulating the system. An example of the latter is gerrymandering, with the latest partisan fight occurring in that big state southwest of Texarkana.
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Opinion: U.S. birth rate; Trump and Putin
Wed,08/20/25-6:34PM , 165 Reads 14,990 Statewide
U.S. birth rate still is too low

A recent column on the Magnolia Tribune website lamented the continuing decline in the American birth rate, along with the apparent unwillingness of too many young people to commit their attention, time and money to relationships and parenthood.
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High court to blame for gerrymandering war
Wed,08/20/25-5:58PM , 454 Reads 38,305 Statewide
The gerrymandering war that is heating up across the country wasn’t started by Donald Trump, even though the Republican president sparked the latest hostilities by urging Texas to conduct a mid-decade redo to increase the number of Republicans elected to Congress next year from that already GOP-dominated state.
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