I am going to break with my long standing tradition and actually make a New Year’s resolution this year.  That resolution is that I plan to finally make good on my past promise to offer our membership videos of our Police Pension Board meetings.

Alright, maybe I’m not the brightest bulb in the box when it comes to video but I have never claimed to be.  Some of you may think I am some kind of “computer wizard” because I built and maintain this website for our membership but nothing could be further from the truth about video because it is very hard to teach an old dog (or old guard) new tricks.  An old preacher once jokingly said that he defines a “religious zealot” as someone who has just a little bit more religion than he has and I strongly suspect that many of you apply a similar definition to the term “computer wizard.” [Read more...]

Merry Christmas!!!

As you are undoubtedly aware by now, I have made a few modifications to this website that I need to explain.  Some of you may have noticed that the website only had a message that said maintenance was being performed for most of today that allowed me time to make the necessary changes and modifications to this live website that I had already made on my test server. [Read more...]

Some of you may have noticed that I did not write about “My Observations” of last month’s pension board meeting.  The reason I did not was because “My Observations” of the actions of our Board with regard to one particular issue were not favorable to our Board.  Instead, I simply chose to say nothing rather than report my true “Observations” because I firmly believed my fellow elected board members would see the urgency of that particular issue at our next pension board meeting. On the day before that meeting, I found a reasonable solution to the problem of my concern and attempted to present it to our board during that meeting; however, most of our board again failed to see the urgency of that situation and I am again faced with the dilemma of either posting my true “observations” of our last pension board meeting or not.  While those observations are not earth shattering, they do represent a significant departure from my past practice on this website. [Read more...]

A couple of days ago, I received a call from my longtime friend, Farris Hensley, who again reiterated his long standing and legitimate concerns about our membership not posting comments about my articles on this website. I have told him for some time now, how many visitors each particular article has received on a daily basis; however, it is apparent that our membership who reads those articles, for whatever reasons, has not seen fit to comment about them. Farris has indicated that, while our readership is quite good, the lack of interest displayed by our membership troubles him because it leaves a definite impression on the membership and others who read this website that our membership are not very concerned about the issues posted on the website or they would leave comments. [Read more...]

I’ve been examining a new idea for this website that I would like your input on.

The Little Rock Police Pension Board meetings audio is currently digitally recorded and each audio file is made available to the membership as quickly as I can upload it to the website and write the article about my observations of the meeting.  This usually takes me about one to two days to accomplish.  However, there is something else that could be done that is better and much faster if the Police Pension Board approves the new concept and the membership wants it. [Read more...]

The purpose of the “This Website” category is to provide our membership with the opportunity to comment on and make recommendations concerning this website.