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After years of teaching high school, serving as counselor, then in administration, I learned that the students who leave the greatest impression...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Anyone walking along the boulevards of Paris on Sunday afternoon will have sensed the "shame and anger" described by President Emmanuel Macron after a...
Here in Arkansas, fall means football, community gatherings, and looking ahead to the holidays. Many families are considering what they can do to stay...
With a month to go until midterm elections, Democrats find themselves in better shape than expected. Odds are, they'll win the House and perhaps a...
Bret Stephens: Americans are growing hostile to artificial intelligence. I've warned that letting AI write for you can be brain-eating,...
In March of last year, a beacon of democracy for much of the world for the last 83 years, the storied Voice of America radio network, went dark. It...
Friends outside Arkansas often take pity on me for feeling the way I do about President Donald Trump and living here. I appreciate it. I've lost track...
Nearly two years into his role as secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth has yet to leave his old job as a Fox News host behind. His recent "State of the...
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I know what you may be thinking: This guy is about to rave and bluster about what an injustice it is that the Hogs do not play a few of their games at...
When an Arkansan hears the words, "You have cancer," the last thing that patient wants to hear next is, "You need to leave the state for care."
In Act I, Scene V of "Hamlet," the ghost of Prince Hamlet's father informs him that Claudius, Hamlet's uncle and his father's brother, murdered...
Will Americans survive the feverish doomsaying that is getting louder each day?
October is National Energy Awareness Month, and according to WalletHub, 58 percent of Americans are saying "Protecting the Environment" should be...
In health care, distance is measured in more than miles. It can be measured in the months someone waits to see a specialist, or in the manageable...
Last week, President Donald Trump shocked the world by easing sanctions on Russia to allow the sale of Russian diesel fuel to the United States and...
Dear Mahatma: On Interstate 40 from Little Rock to West Memphis, all the rest area facilities are closed. For those of us who have to go on the go,...
After a five-and-a-half-year absence, Tom Cotton has recently discovered a state called Arkansas. Pretending that he cares about Arkansas and the...
If the forecast is right, it's a lot cooler today than it was earlier in the week.
In a podcast interview dated Sept. 29 of this year, Vice President JD Vance offered the following argument to justify mass deportations:
Football fans at all levels are familiar with the term "bulletin board material," which are words or actions that can get an opponent riled up before...
Number 19 on the American Film Institute's (AFI) 2005 list of the 100 greatest American movie quotes is, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take...
An embattled President Donald Trump is undertaking a risky gambit raiding the home of controversial Squad member Rep. Ilhan Omar just seven weeks...
For at least the second time this year, Marco Rubio delivered a stirring speech championing the virtues of Western civilization--"a civilization," he...
One night in 2005, I sat in a church in Texas listening to a lecture by Helen Prejean, the prominent opponent of capital punishment. Her book about...
As the federal government entered fiscal year 2027 on Oct. 1, we marked the 50th anniversary of the Hyde Amendment's application to federal...
The swamp may not be drained, but it's shrinking.
"Nobody knows anything," the screenwriter William Goldman famously said of the movie business. Much the same can be said today for artificial...
Each October, it is encouraging to see so many organizations, communities, and Arkansans find ways to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month. From...
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