Category: Government
November 23, 2025
The goal of Community Conversation is to identify and/or highlight successes and problems. To celebrate successes, to contribute to the resolution of problems. For more information click here.
January 16, 2023
Updated: October 2, 2023 Here I deal with reported criminality among the races and the observed proportional racial disparity. Criminal behavior and racial disparities of course exist for a variety of reasons. The challenge is to discover negative causes...
November 9, 2021
A question being asked and has been asked for a long time across the nation is whether improper systemic partiality exists with respect to race and gender and what should be done about it. The same question should be asked...
August 25, 2020
The Texarkana Gazette on August 23, 2020 published an article about the Texarkana Courthouse Square Connections Project that is expected to cost $950,000 Plus. The project is basically to pretty up the area around the Federal Courthouse and Post Office...
June 1, 2020
In 2014 in Texarkana, TX a “mentally ill” man named Dennis Grigsby was shot and killed by a Texarkana police officer after a burglary call when Mr. Grigsby was found in a neighbor’s garage. Mr. Grigsby reportedly was later found...
May 28, 2020
Issue: There exists much distrust within the minority community as to whether law enforcement leadership nationwide are adequately employing, training, and discipling law enforcement employees in properly interacting with personnel in the community especially minority personnel. The concern arises from...
May 12, 2019
Of course, statistics are not intended to be precise. They provide insight into what is probably going on and what needs to be celebrated and problem areas that need attention. According to the Federal Government’s Bureau of Labor and Statistics...
May 10, 2018
Below are the poverty level data analysis for Texarkana Arkansas/Texas based on information as reported by the US Census available at factfinder.census.gov as of May 10, 2018. One should be mindful that statistics are estimates and do not purport to...
April 14, 2018
**Updated September 2025 **Note that I began this research in 2016. Most of my analysis and conclusions are rooted in the 2016 data. However, there is no reason to believe there has been any significant change in the data points...
