Get it together non-Ozarks Arkansas

Littel Rokz bettur den Fayutvele.

People spending what little money they have at Wal-Mart and guess where it ends up.

Dem Gazette has a story with the schools listed.

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2 in Little Rock, 4 in Pine Bluff, 3 in Forrest City,

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Interesting

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3 in Forrest City, 

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Why are there even 3 schools in Forrest City?

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There's a demographic correlation in there, I believe.

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Yep, and it will eventually hit NWA. Just wait.

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This is your future Arkansas. As a resident of the great country of Waltonaria we'd rather not carry the rest of on out backs another 40 years.

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Did you even stop to consider that large number of schools NOT in 'Waltonia' that also AREN'T on the list?

And there's always going to be a 'bottom 5%', no matter how good or bad the schools are.

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The jealousy in the Capitol is deafening. 27 highway projects are back on. Only 2 in Washington county and those are the only ones in NWA.

Zero projects in Benton county is laughable. 112 needs to be a priority that thing is gridlocked. We need more than one N/S route for 500k people

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Un-fricking-real.

Yet Little Rock can get a Dallas-esque interchange that it doesn't even need. I lived in Little Rock for 7 years and moved back up to NWA around the time they started that thing, and even then I was thinking "why the hell are they building this?"

My commute to work just makes me laugh, and I'm not even one of those brave souls who has to go back and forth between Fayetteville and Bentonville every day. We have three Fortune 100 headquarters and JB Hunt up here, as well as over 1,000 vendor satellite offices, and population is through the roof, yet the road infrastructure is outdated by at least a decade (it's not like these corporations sprung up yesterday). By the time I-49 is done, we'll need another lane and it'll be behind yet again.

But by all means, let's keep funneling money to needless projects in fricking Little Rock and widen out I-40 going into Maumelle while we act like Bentonville is still a town of 50k and that UA's enrollment is the same as it was in 2003.

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And there's always going to be a 'bottom 5%', no matter how good or bad the schools are

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Yes. That said, I don't think Dermott, Earle, Dollarway, Geyer Springs, Osceola, Marvell-Elaine, Mablevale, Hughes, Strong-Huttig or JA Fair are suffering from an embarrassment of riches syndrome...that "someone just has to be at the bottom". Those schools truly are failing

Some of the shite going on here boggles the mind. Like how we shut down the interstate here in Fort Smith for 2 years to upgrade the shoulder but not add another lane.

We should be planning ahead. Because if you wait until you need 3 lanes then you're already about 5 years late. But our politicians stick their head in the sand and hope traffic will decrease.