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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...
It's quite a feat, in this numb and debased era, to create a political advertisement so shocking and indecent that people from across the political...
Dear Mahatma: Cable wire barriers were installed on Arkansas 100 to prevent crossover accidents. This was a very expensive project. Since...
Sean Harrison was a musician before he became a journalist, and he kept writing songs while earning his living with other kinds of sentences. The...
There is a cliché about people in my demographic that contends we are set in our ways and resistant to change. I have to tell you, in my case at...
I've spent much of my career building and acquiring businesses because I love the process. I'm an entrepreneur at heart. Growing an idea into a viable...
As excited as I was to see Jonesboro's first ever film with live orchestra (FWLO) event last Saturday night--and it was "can't wait" mode for...
The state parks department--in cahoots with area nonprofits--has, it seems, added to the ongoing pressures farmers in western Washington County are...
A recent letter writer wrote that he usually reads my column "with admiration and amusement." Huzzah--he's the one! But my recent piece on Gaza left...
Ordered destroyed, Murnau’s ‘Nosferatu’ survived to haunt cinema — and returns to the big screen at AMFA.
Al Topich, known to film audiences as Xander Topich, returns to directing with ‘Stalling’ and finds the rewards in making movies together.
American liberals have often looked to France for a model of what they would like to see in the United States: universal health care; low-cost day...
Law enforcement's verdict is in, but it's still hard to tell if anyone involved in Lowell's AirTag drama has landed on their feet, politically...
If I'm going to argue as I do that the people rule themselves in Arkansas--because it's in the state Constitution and a basic democratic precept that...
Most Arkansans will never see a sprinkler head open or a kitchen hood system discharge. That's the point. Most Arkansas businesses have fire...
This fall, like every other, I try to game the flu season. My goal, always, is to get my vaccine at just the right moment: before the first cases pop...
The federal government managed to become even more fiscally inept during the past fiscal year, running a deficit of nearly $2 trillion, according to...
One of the favorite "gotchas" of pseudo-debaters/culture-war gnats (they're not warriors, and are mostly annoying) is to demand the definition of a...
Arkansas TV put on a fine debate between the worthy combatants for the seat in Congress from the 2nd District.
A longtime friend from my hometown of Arkadelphia texted me early one morning. He was upset. As he scrolled on his cell phone, he came across a list...
If you watch as many of President Donald Trump's rally speeches as I do--and I watch them at levels no one has ever seen before--you begin to hear the...
Americans lose billions of dollars every year to online scams, and the problem is getting worse.
In 2018, I stopped by the Johnson County (Ark.) Historical Association to visit with retired physician Don Pennington, a friend who volunteered to...
If politics was logical, Republicans should be leading in the polls and looking forward to maintaining, even expanding, their congressional...
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