Sports writer, Stuttgart, AR

Damn. So that means they probably don't send someone to cover this

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You'll get to cover Stuttgart High School, which won the boys' 4A state basketball championship earlier this year. Also, the football program has won several state championships over the years, the last one coming in 2002.

And as Inky mentioned, Stuttgart is the home of the World's Duck Calling Championships. You'll hear duck calls in your sleep for a good week or two after the championships are over with.

 

Do they still call their gym the Bird Cage?

 

They just may have created the first minimum-wage sportswriting job under the new rate. Minimum pro-rates out to $15,080 annually.

An accomplishment like that deserves the world's best acknowledgement of fail:

 

Is it possible that's just the lowball starting point for salary discussions? Even in Arkansas they can't expect to get a professional journalist for minimum wage.

 

Inky...I live and work in Arkansas. And this is not the first time I have seen a small town job come open that price. I have no clue if that is actually what the salary ends up being, but to see $15,000 is pretty typical sadly.

 

Why not? If you can spell and know the difference between a touchdown and a touchback, you da man (or woman).

 

Well, they said a degree is preferred but not required. Gee, wonder why?

You go to college for 4-5 years to get a job that's on par with working at that legendary Arkansas business empire, Walmart. Or McDonald's.

(And before someone gets their panties in a bunch, no offense intended toward anyone who happens to work at either of those fine companies.)

 

I bet you could end up making more at those companies than you would here.

 

Yes, I hear their CEOs do quite well.

 

If this place is anything like some of the Gulf South Conference towns, you will have a hard time drinking your sorrows away.

 

Arkansas County (the county Stuttgart is in) is legally wet, meaning you can buy beer, wine and liquor in a store. Arkansas law mostly does not distinguish between hard liquor and pisswater beer.

Although "private clubs" have served alcohol legally in supposedly-dry areas statewide for decades and restaurants, more recently.