Pro-LR?
A Fort Smith blog-reader invites me to get down off my Central Arkansas, Alltel Arena-loving high horse (see preceding item/diatribe) and understand that this new U. S. Marshal's Museum in Fort Smith will be a good thing and deserves state aid. Well, I deny I'm pro-LR. I live in LR, yes, but my readership base anymore is Fort Smith and due north up the mountain along Prosperity Corridor. I like Fort Smith; get over there all the time. The way the wind whips out of Oklahoma messes up my tennis, but I have no complaint otherwise. This federal museum is more than a local project; it's a legitimate target of General Improvement money. My point about Alltel was that it got state money after a local tax, and that, as a general rule, state funds for capital projects ought to be spent in partnership with the locals. My other point was that it's a rather hollow victory to beat out other cities for this museum, then get no federal money. "The prize is the opportunity," my Fort Smith correspondent said. Anyway, he said, Boozman, Lincoln and Pryor are working on it.