Feeding frenzy
Just made a few state Capitol calls and this is what I found: A wild rush for chunks of this $843 million surplus. This new federally approved U. S. marshal's museum at Fort Smith needs many millions. There's an aging center in Jonesboro lining up at the trough. Colleges and universities are the most aggressive. There's even a meeting in a couple of days in which the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame, a collection of old Razorbacks who have a cocktail party once a year, and which serves no public government purpose and is not remotely a government responsibility or operation, will seek more money. It got a hundred grand a few years ago, about which I'm still seething. I'm telling you — we should get an equal share for an Arkansas Newspaper Hall of Fame. We can throw cocktail parties with the best of 'em.