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“Not voting is not protest. It is surrender.” -Keith Ellison Minnesota Attorney General When you choose not to vote, you’re not making a statement—you’re giving up your right to have a say in the future.

No, this isn’t a column of a religious nature, but better it could be, if more attention was paid to my subject. First of all, before beginning my rant (my… I so hate that word), I do understand how busy we all are in our worlds these days. It seems as if we hardly end one day before beginning the next. Our lives are besieged by social media, advertising, social events, traffic, and the very important lives of our families. With all the entertainment that is directed at you with streaming channels, there must be millions of movies and TV series, and documentary specials and sports to distract you. It is like one of those good old Spring deluges that I remember so well from back in the forties and fifties there in Clay County, where you tried to make it to the end of the cotton row before the rain hit and got soaked before you could get to the house.

LITTLE ROCK – Most of the universities in Arkansas reported increases in enrollment for the fall semester. The state’s funding formula for higher education no longer emphasizes enrollment, due to passage of Act 148 of 2017.