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Dear Mr. Find-It-All: I was trapped at a traffic light at Cantrell Road and Taylor Loop one afternoon, a great time to be in that area. I did what I...
In this week’s episode, Rex Nelson talks with Suzanne Peyton, executive director of Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport, about upcoming...
Halloween is almost upon us and once again I will be wearing a costume I did not select and would not have chosen in a million years. If you detect...
As you read this, Regnat Populus is underway. Early voting in Arkansas began on Oct. 19, and the last day to vote is Tuesday, Election Day.
There is something special about watching a skilled craftsman at work. Whether it's a welder joining two pieces of steel, a mechanic keeping equipment...
Even Halloween candy isn't immune to the affordability crisis, making one of America's little luxuries a little more painful ahead of this holiday...
Sally Wilson knows how a city's records get made. She was mayor of Osceola, in Mississippi County, until the end of 2022.
Trump, Putin too cozy for good of the nation
One of the things they say about golf is that it is a lifetime sport. This is held out as an inducement for others to "grow the game," i.e., recruit...
There is a compliment people pay certain horror movies that amounts to an insult to most others.
Watch out for children west of Hogs' stadium
I am honored to have gotten the attention of my congressman, Republican French Hill. I am inspired to continue our public dialogue.
The University of Arkansas has built tremendous momentum over the past several years, setting records in areas such as enrollment, number of degrees...
Democrats are in a tizzy over a Trump administration lawsuit, claiming the legal action provides evidence that the White House will deny the results...
Americans are seeing chaos and rioting on the streets of Paris. We are not immune to that happening on streets across America.
Somewhere between here and Nashville, Tenn., where my daughters Adelaide and Stella and I went to see Smashing Pumpkins last week, my car started...
NPR took a nationwide look Sunday morning on "Weekend Edition" at what it called the surprising political competition in Arkansas for the midterms.
I'm having lunch in downtown Little Rock with two advocates for Issue 3. They present me with case studies that really drive home the need for this...
For many businesses, being a good corporate citizen has long meant investing in the areas where employees live and work. Companies sponsor events,...
I haven't seen a news story about a political poll in recent years that wasn't heckled for its sample size, crosstabs or bias. The identity of the...
Elections are supposed to be about ideas. But that's not politics today, where ridiculous ads and social media soundbites stand in for actual debate.
The first thing to say about Tuesday's election in Israel is the one that tends to be mentioned the least: The country had one. Competitive, lawful,...
There are mornings when making the bed seems an absurdly inadequate response to what has happened to us.
I cannot begin to tell you how relieved I am that I do not have to eat my conciliatory words in a recently recorded appearance on an Arkansas TV...
I want to tell you about Ann Hornaday, who died Oct. 18 at 66.
I have a few things to say in response to John Brummett's latest hit job, "French Hill's Irony." In addition to doing nothing to fact-check my...
New books by Jay McInerney, Mary Jo Salter and Jordan Tannahill consider the consolations of growing older, the persistence of memory and the things...
When I taught courses on American and comparative politics, I spent a fair amount of time on the concept of "political efficacy," a fancy political...
A lot of people don't think about the U.S. Census. Even in the year that the decennial census is happening, many people don't pay attention until they...
After years of teaching high school, serving as counselor, then in administration, I learned that the students who leave the greatest impression...
Most journalists will say they’re not good at mathematics, or, as our U.K. friends put it, “the maths.” In high school I went to the state...
Tom Cotton had me fooled. He had a lot of Arkansans fooled.
Q Hello Lois. I’m now living in a retirement community on a fairly fixed income and I need to buy new clothing. In recent years I have lost weight....
It was 1982. Ronald Reagan was in the White House. Bill Clinton was elected governor of Arkansas for the second time, after losing his first...
It’s 10 days until the big election. Let’s do arrows.
I’m usually up and out of Fayetteville relatively early on Sunday mornings, win, lose or draw. I may drive past the stadium on my way out, but other...
The governor’s campaign is spending six figures this fall on a television ad about a young man named Brad. He lounges around playing video games,...
My interests as a student and teacher of literature know almost no bounds. I like it all—poetry, drama, film, short and long fiction, non-fiction of...
With every investment K-12 school districts make, we should ask ourselves: Is it helping our students grow and succeed? This should guide how we spend...
A vacation to visit our extended family in Corpus Christi, Texas was my first introduction to The Gulf. One of the highlights of that trip was an...
For me, gambling consists of placing a $2 bet, in cash, to show on a long shot at Oaklawn in Hot Springs. If my horse comes in first, second or third,...
Americans are angry about the high cost of fuel and food. They’re also angry about the reckless war with Iran.
North Little Rock artist Jeremy Colburn was 15 in 1993 when he began playing guitar and singing with his dad, drummer Jerry Colburn, in the...
Käthe Kollwitz’s memorial to Karl Liebknecht honors a grief that political disagreement cannot diminish.
Thank you for your service, but we'd rather you be back home in Arkansas.
Stay in one job long enough and you acquire tenure. People know what you can do, or what you have done, and give you the benefit of the doubt. You can...
After four years of mismanagement by Gov. Sarah Sanders and the Arkansas Legislature, the chickens are about to come home to roost for state...
My wife and I have never traveled overseas together, so when the opportunity to be part of a wedding in Provence, France, came up, we jumped at it.
Every October, bats flutter through haunted houses, horror movies and Halloween decorations as symbols of darkness, danger and things that go bump in...
President Donald Trump's affinity for his pal Vladimir Putin has now torpedoed new congressionally mandated sanctions against Russia for its invasion...