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I was wondering if the state's Republican congressmen, who helped give us the big, ugly bill that made steep cuts in the state's health-care...
In south Arkansas, the timber industry remains king, though that sector of the economy has fallen on hard times in recent years. During the next...
Sept. 25, 2001: We flew into New York City on an American Airlines flight from Little Rock. I felt better about my flight when I noticed an iron bar...
Yes, it's almost "hold your breath time" again as the Ledge prepares some 1,200-plus bills to drop in the hopper for next year's...
The state Constitution vests the ultimate power in the people. The state's motto is that the people rule. That loftiness of principle sounds...
An interesting article in The New York Times the other day reported that the Democratic National Committee was in arrears from anemic donations to the...
In Arkansas, when national rankings arrive, we traditionally console ourselves by saying, "Thank God for Mississippi." It isn't...
Well, I've resisted writing about the price of crude oil as long as I can. So, here is another of my two cents' worth -- and that may be...
When I think of tennis, one name usually pops up, and folks my age in south Arkansas will recognize it immediately: It's Myron Schofner. As I...
Despite recent indications of erosion in the congressional Republican obeisance to President Donald Trump, we cannot yet say for sure that the...
A guest column in this paper the other day under the byline of assorted serious Arkansas people--including a former state Supreme Court justice and a...
Well, let's just say it's a little warmer than usual, but this is Arkansas, and it is summer. I'm a little concerned about what August...
Historian Ben Johnson of El Dorado has given far more thought than most Arkansans to where this state has been in the past 100 years and where...
Republicans grow more deeply concerned about a blue wave in November as Democrats struggle to ride that wave. One of their leading surfers just wiped...
Yes, this oilman is throwing in the oil towel ... at least temporarily. From college, where I more or less stumbled into majoring in geology, I credit...
They had a governor's debate Friday at the Arkansas Press Association convention in Eureka Springs. I didn't attend. The following critique...
In times of uncommon recklessness in presidential leadership with narrow congressional division in a major election year--by which I mean enduring a...
"Moments to Remember." If you grew up in the '50s or '60s, I'm sure you remember the words to that hit song, "We will...
Back when there were still newsstands that carried Sunday newspapers from across the country, I spent too much money buying papers. Being a newspaper...
Donald Trump was done with his failed war on Iran and ready to move oil through the Strait of Hormuz.
I declared last week the existence of a Donald Trump dictatorship because the Republicans in Congress wouldn't stand up to him.
I have written about the incident that gives this column its name before, but it was several years ago. This is an updated version, which doesn't...
In December 1843, a 160-acre tract in the pine woods of south Arkansas was named El Dorado. Matthew Rainey had set up a retail store there, and area...
Ernie Dumas, a venerated Arkansas political journalist, has an opinion essay and historical essay -- that's the same piece -- in the latest...
I'm in my room at The Haywood, one of the state's finest hotels, and I have two books to keep me company.
Well, in case you haven't noticed, June 1 kicked off hurricane season. Of course, if you have never lived on the Gulf Coast, that's a...
As the years slowly slip by, it is easy to ignore the gradual climate changes as they occur and consider that these are just the extreme fluctuations...
The Texas Republican runoff for the U.S. Senate was won handily Tuesday by the Trump-endorsed and ethically challenged MAGA firebrand.
A Republican state legislator has asked Gov. Sarah Sanders to call a special session--which we just had, with that session coming immediately after...
Few things annoy me more than a social-media feeding frenzy. It's particularly annoying when I see normally calm, thoughtful people who are...
I had to throw away the first column I had written about how bad doing away with the U of A tennis program was and how it accomplished nothing....
Reporters' questions at news conferences have irked me all my newspaper life.
I remember after getting the logging equipment set up how it crossed my mind: "Thirteen days to go." We had a schedule that called for a...
In the next 20 years, it is very likely that today's routine lifestyles will change dramatically whether we like it or not. It will be a result...
Supporters of saving PBS programming on state public television in Arkansas should beware.
With the agricultural sector in crisis, Hallie Shoffner picked a good year to run for the U.S. Senate. Of course, Shoffner is running as a Democrat,...
This is not a very important column. But it's fun for me and it might be for you.
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...
A massive poll for NBC taken over the first couple of weeks of the month showed Donald Trump's approval rating at an all-time low. But other...
Several of my readers have asked me about the Greek and Roman ruins in Libya, and while I'm not an Anthropologist or an Archeologist, I've...
On Monday, preachers in Arkansas, including even the Republichristians and the Southern MAGAbaptists, were publicly expressing deep disapproval of...
When I lived in Washington, D.C., in the 1980s, my favorite way to start each morning was with a cup of coffee and a copy of The Washington Post. If...
At least we know now that Arkansas is pure.
Because of the quality of public duck hunting it offers, Arkansas' George H. Dunklin Jr. Bayou Meto Wildlife Management Area might be the most...
I think one of the prime reasons Vertis and I decided to move back to Arkansas from South Texas was the climate. It was a difficult decision because...
If you haven't been in a conversation lately with people agreeing that the whole cast of Washington politicians ought to be run out of office,...
This week, when I was walking my usual route from my house on Calion Road in El Dorado and, as I turned down Long's Blow Pipe Road (North Smith...
A guest piece in the opinion section recently of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette railed disingenuously against a percolating public initiative for a...
U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks of Fayetteville is the man you want whenever these legislators of ours try to pull some unconstitutional stunt...
As we are now in the season of Lent, which is a foreshadow of the death of Jesus Christ. It all adds up to Easter. During the Lent season, we sing...
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