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Please allow me the honor and pleasure of telling you about Paul Berry, newly and sadly the late.
Last Saturday, I saw all three hours of Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey" with Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway and Charlize Theron, among others. It was the...
I slow down during the short drive from Monticello to Warren in order to watch construction taking place on Weyerhaeuser Co.'s new facility. The...
"No mas, no mas "--Roberto Duran
A recent column defending LEARNS by Jacob Oliva, the state's secretary of education, coupled with a critical response by Perspective columnist Gwen...
My sister and I don't see much of each other--she lives in a western suburb of Cleveland in the summer and on the west coast of Florida in the...
When I think of tennis one name usually pops up. Folks my age in south Arkansas will recognize it immediately: Myron Schoffner.
The Heartland Whole Health Institute recently released its report on Arkansas' physician shortage, making the case for a graduate medical education...
I am currently a plaintiff in two court cases that challenge the LEARNS Act, and am not at liberty to argue those cases in this forum. However, there...
From the 1880s through the 1920s, Arkansans experienced an era known as the Big Cut. That's when the state's virgin timber was harvested from the...
There is a temptation to herd writers into literary ghettos: southern, western, nature, historical, regional. These labels are meant to be...
There's a fun backstory to the new audiobook version of "Carry the Rock: Race, Football, and the Soul of an American City," Jay Jennings' excellent...
Most baseball books begin with an opinion. Gordon Shepherd's begins with a question: Is there a more systematic way to think about greatness?
A team of scholars led by sociologist R. Gordon Shepherd ranks the game’s legends within their own eras, offering a historically grounded...
A reader named Karl sent me a newspaper column that raged against data centers and artificial intelligence. He hoped I'd give him a different point of...
I am no Rex Nelson, but I do a fair amount of public speaking. I do not find audiences especially daunting. The part that bothers me is everything...
Gov. Jim Guy Tucker's first letter on July 15, 1996, was on governor's office stationery. The letter said that Tucker was breaking his promise to...
You know, or should know, that when Benjamin Franklin emerged from the last session of the Constitutional Convention, he was asked if that body had...
Will the nation's biannual ritual of moving the clock backward and forward an hour soon be a thing of the past? Perhaps, but it's no sure thing.
Elon Musk is still mad about "The Odyssey."
Dear Mahatma: Did you know the most stolen highway signs in Arkansas are the ones going into Weiner on U.S. 49? -- Smart Guy
In this week's episode, Rex Nelson sits down with the Chancellor of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Dr. Lowry Barnes.
Priorities. Normal folks set them every day just to make it through the day.
Laws with good intentions leading to unintended bad consequences is American politics 101. There are lots of cases, but the one I want to single out...
We live in a technological age. We have access to information anytime and anywhere. When used properly, that technology brings people together in ways...
The Democratic Socialists of America are having a moment, with candidates winning Democratic congressional primaries in New York and Colorado. Given...
Recently, federal trial judge Lee Rudofsky issued two opinions addressing the two categories of claims that Bryan Malinowski's estate and heirs...
Some paintings attract attention because of who painted them. Others because of what they depict. Little Rock’s Suzanne Mosley’s portrait of a...
This is not the polished beauty we expect from movies about the ancient world.
To help my mom and the rest of the family since the loss of my dad, a Triple F family member spends each night at her house. We call these slumber...
It was a highlight of the summer. A woman at the gas station told me that Rex Nelson and I were "puredee Arkansas." She said it like it was a good...
Sir, I am 28 years old. Some of my friends who rent say that there is no such thing as a buyer's market, that it is not a good time to buy a house,...
If you are an AI doomer, as a majority of Americans are, then you might find New York's one-year moratorium on new data centers reassuring: No matter...
Amid celebrations of our nation's 250th birthday, Gallup serves up a sobering portrait of general dissatisfaction with our nation's core institutions.
Despite recent indications of erosion in the congressional Republican obeisance to President Donald Trump, we cannot yet say for sure that the...
On May 28, 1996, following his felony conviction in federal court, Gov. Jim Guy Tucker announced that he would resign as governor by July 15. That...
Many have warned about the dangers of broad generalizations. Nuance and specificity are lost when we generalize, and entire arguments become specious...
Last month's heat wave killed an estimated 440 people per day at its peak in England and Wales--more than 100 times the daily toll from road crashes...
Remember when planning a summer day meant glancing out the window to see if it might rain?
Societies, like individuals, can become sick. And, as with individuals, the symptoms point to the pathology.
The president of the United States appeared Thursday night on the few national television networks that deigned to endure him in his spiraling state...
The most unsettling aspect about our politics isn't that politicians lie. It's that we expect them to.
During a recent visit to a Navy ship, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly became angry after seeing sailors with facial hair. The Navy requires...
The French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr knew what he was talking about when in 1849 he coined the phrase "Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme...
Unlike most books I've read and movies I've seen, "Lonesome Dove" stays with me. I haven't opened it since shortly after it was published in 1985, but...
A long time ago, when I worked for Arkansas' environmental agency, each year employees throughout state government looked forward to obtaining the...
The January killings of protesters and U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minnesota sparked horror and concern about the...
When the history of the first quarter of the 21st century is written, there will be one towering political figure above all the rest: President Donald...
I taught special education in Arkansas for three years. I loved my students. They were the reason I came to work every morning. But I ultimately made...
Our 250th anniversary as a nation made me think about what I was doing on its 200th. And that made me think about the first vote I cast, which was for...
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