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Famed public television documentarian Ken Burns was in northwest Arkansas late last week, and the main thing I got from a news article about his visit...
We don't need physics to recognize the relative nature of time; just look at the ways we mark it.
ARLINGTON, Va.--Today, Virginia voters who bother to vote will take gerrymandering to a new and dangerous level.
At the start of Ben Lerner's startling new novel "Transcription," a man sits on a train trying to read and failing because he is facing the wrong...
I am a dinosaur.
Six weeks ago, I praised Donald Trump for taking action against Iran. I even suggested that Trump's willingness to use American power against our...
The latest turmoil has me thinking about my summer jobs, so much that I can almost smell the chlorine and sunscreen brew that I inhaled for three...
Every parent should be paying attention to what's been going on at Lake Zurich High School.
“Abandon all hope, ye who enter.”
As the superintendent of the Jacksonville North Pulaski School District (JNPSD), I know about the time it takes to implement a policy. Just because I...
When I walked into the hospital to deliver my daughter, I carried more than a hospital bag. I carried fear.
The author of a recent guest column in these pages asked whose interests Arkansas' attorney general is serving. That's easy: I serve you, the people...
Last week I voluntarily attended the Chamber of Commerce banquet in Charleston. I say "voluntarily" because in these times that try the soul, I find...
I stopped. I looked. I pulled into the intersection, and suddenly a late-model sedan was in my lap.
It's an uncommonly personal budget proposal by a single state legislator that affects a lone executive branch employee.
It was an interesting week. I could start out every column that way, but this past week was slightly different.
The American blockade in the Strait of Hormuz alters the strategic equation in the Iran conflict. It also has the attention of our enemies.
I'm often asked to speak about economic development in Arkansas. There was a time when my speeches focused on northwest Arkansas and how that region's...
Becoming a supporter of Earth Day--Wednesday, April 22--is natural for me. I have always been a joiner of good causes.
The redbuds and dogwoods are still in bloom here in Staunton, Va., though they've put out leaves. The maples are shedding samaras, the seed packets...
A young man ain't nothing in the world these days.
BILLSTOWN -- About four miles down Billstown Road, just outside of Delight in Pike County, is the Campbell Family Cemetery. It is here that musician...
Jayne Ann Phillips looks back without imposing a moral; Maria Semple keeps things moving before one can form. A memoir and a comic novel meet in their...
Only in retrospect does Gillian Welch's 1996 album "Revival" feel like a beginning.
Democrat-Gazette online
Now the rest of us know what the "J" in Donald J. Trump really stands for. Christian nationalists and some evangelical denominations made that...
Many Arkansans are aware of the Blackwell Bottoms even if they don't know what the area is called. It's the flat Arkansas River bottomland that one...
Recently on the opinion page of this newspaper, I shared truth and a vision of how your public television station is navigating uncertain times.
BUDAPEST—Last Saturday, the day before the election in Hungary, I went to Puspokladany, a run-down town of about 16,000 in the northeastern part of...
Recently on the opinion page of this newspaper, I shared truth and a vision of how your public television station is navigating uncertain times.
Favorite Columnist: I'm in favor of cable median barriers and hope there is one in place should I ever go flying off the Interstate. But are those...
In this week’s episode, Rex Nelson talks with Saracen Casino’s Chief Marketing Officer Carlton Saffa about his journey and how the casino came to be.
Last week, the Arkansas Court of Appeals soundly affirmed the well-reasoned decision of then-Pulaski County Circuit Court Judge Mackie Pierce...
Just a few years ago, ransomware followed a relatively simple script. Criminals broke into a company's network, locked up its data through encryption...
I read through nearly 500 comments on a story posted on Facebook about the funding of the EFA component (aka vouchers) of the LEARNS program.
After his years in the public spotlight that include more than a decade as a politician, armchair Trumpologists who have closely observed President...
When the people of Hungary decided clearly to vote out their right-wing populist leader, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, he had the decency to concede...
Movies cover all the genres, but how many sequels and reboots do we really need?
After 19 years in the classroom, I still feel the same pull I did as a child watching my Aunt Becky teach. I wanted to do what she did and help...
On Monday, preachers in Arkansas, including even the Republichristians and the Southern MAGAbaptists, were publicly expressing deep disapproval of...
There were voices that contributed to my education that came not from teachers nor ministers nor kin. They were voices that spoke to our family every...
The general consensus is that President Donald Trump's social media post of himself dressed in robes, after a busy weekend in which he blasted Pope...
"The easiest method for the United States to reopen Hormuz," I wrote last Tuesday, "is to start seizing tankers carrying Iranian crude once they reach...
Democrat-Gazette online
I met Mike Dougherty in the fall of 1969 in a giant study hall that filled the cafeteria at the now-destroyed McClellan High School in...
Though recent columns focused on efforts to restore the renowned green-tree duck hunting on the George H. Dunklin Jr. Bayou Meto Wildlife Management...
As much as talking about kindness the past couple of weeks has cheered me, it's time to get back into more serious matters.
When I was in grade school back in the 1800s, they fed us cheeseburgers extended to the frontiers of human palatability by hefty amounts of what some...
The United States must be growing and prosperous at home and strong and secure in the face of the many security threats facing us abroad. The former...
The big Franklin County prison seems dead, and I probably should take out "seems."
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