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It's prime season for weddings, graduations, showers and family reunions. But some of these memory-making moments include staged "send-offs" that come...
How can anyone escape the irony that in this year, as we celebrate 250 years since the signing of the American Declaration of Independence, the...
Golden anniversaries used to be special celebrations in the days when people got married and stayed married.
Last year, mine was one of many farming operations to close in the state of Arkansas. I made the heartbreaking decision to close to protect my...
The surprise defeat of a far-left fringe Democrat in Wisconsin could signal that socialists have finally jumped the shark, paving the way for more...
President Donald Trump's chief negotiating strategy consists of keeping the other party guessing about what he might do next. As this pertains to...
To you your father should be as a god
It was 1966 and already hot in Little Rock in early May about the time Arthur Stanley Deras of Hamtramck, Mich., pulled into the parking lot at...
A job is about more than a paycheck. Work gives people the ability to provide for their families, contribute to their communities, and build a future...
I'm fortunate to be included in electronic distribution lists with thoughtful individuals from every corner of this country and beyond our shores....
Paul Simon's 1986 album "Graceland" is approaching its 40th anniversary. It stands today as the magnum opus of an artist whose work appears many times...
Years ago while trying to figure out what to do with my next century, I tried to help a budding tech company get off the ground. In a nutshell, they...
Two key questions are shaping up in Michigan's U.S. Senate race, and both center on Abdul El-Sayed's embrace of accused antisemitic Internet...
Faced with soaring deficits, an aging population, a teetering pension system, unsustainable health-care obligations, $1 trillion in annual interest...
Because this is a family newspaper, I cannot quote the piquant term that Brandon Herrera, a Republican House candidate in Texas, used to refer to...
Dear Mahatma: The rest stop on U.S. 67 north of Corning near the Missouri state line has recently closed. This seems unreasonable. The new highway...
There is an issue that deeply concerns me which is at the forefront of many discussions in America today.
Jonesboro was Capital City for the Day on Tuesday. It's a neat deal, where the governor brings her entire cabinet to town for various events like...
Who knew motherhood would require so much standing in line?
Movies are back!
I've been watching the coverage of the Lindsay Clancy trial like a lot of you probably have, and I won't pretend I haven't been feeling the weight of...
If you aren't among the millions of pickleball players, the fastest growing sport in America, watch "The Dink" on Apple TV to get a glimpse of what...
Sen. Rand Paul is a medical doctor, an ophthalmologist, but he has an unhealthy obsession with Dr. Anthony Fauci. He now has rigged a ridiculous...
President Donald Trump's proposed sweeping changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, whether ever implemented or not, are yet another affront to...
These days, returning to the classroom seems to involve more homework for parents than for students.
On Wednesday, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker wrote to the U.S. CEOs of seven major oil companies, accusing them of "profiteering" from the war in Iran and...
When I was younger, so much younger than today (credit: The Beatles), television networks would rerun programs that had originally been broadcast the...
Arkansas duck hunters may be hundreds of miles from the Prairie Pothole Region, but what happens to those northern wetlands directly affects what we...
The narrower than expected victory by the far left Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, could backfire on the party in November.
At the end of July, Emerson College released a poll of likely Democratic primary voters in Michigan that had progressive firebrand Abdul El-Sayed...
In October 2008, just before the financial markets cratered, I started as a co-op student with the Memphis District of the Army Corps of Engineers. I...
Years ago I went to the Pulaski County Courthouse and tried my best to get out of jury duty. I failed.
It's almost hold-your-breath-time again as the Arkansas Legislature prepares some 1,200 bills to drop in the hopper for next year's legislative...
Suzanne Morphew--cancer survivor, wife of 27 years, and mother of two daughters--went missing in Colorado on Mother's Day 2020. Her husband, Barry...
As former first ladies of the state, our job has always been to listen to Arkansas citizens and lend our visibility to whatever usefulness it might...
The Trump administration recently issued a 123-page report heralding a "new golden age" for U.S. science.
There are more than 100 types of cancer, each recognized by the organs or tissues they affect with unique characteristics, behaviors, and treatments....
Francesca Hong, the Democratic Socialist who's leading in the polls to be the Democratic Party nominee for Wisconsin governor, is now best known...
Dear Guru of 1B: For two years the right-lane shoulder (about 10 feet long) of Interstate 30, eastbound about 200 yards prior to exit 117, appears to...
This is a good news-bad news story.
When we unveiled the 30 Crossing Park Master Plan at the Downtown Food Truck Festival last year, the overwhelming response was, "This is amazing! How...
Some luminaries are way ahead of their time. Economist Milton Friedman, who died 20 years ago and was a Nobel laureate 50 years ago, was not only...
Over the past year, actions on the part of the president and his administration run the gambit from unconstitutional to illegal (as determined in...
As data centers face rising costs, strained resources and growing political opposition, a number of entrepreneurs--Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Eric...
Ronald Reagan promoted his philosophy of "trust but verify" in negotiations with the Soviets. President Donald Trump would be wise to apply the same...
This column isn't so much an argument as it is a plea: Don't use artificial intelligence to help you write. Never let AI do your writing for you.
The market, as I have noted before, is a small miracle. All these people come together--sellers, buyers, go-betweens--with different preferences,...
It is rare for me to support anything inserting more government into our lives. I'm now looking at one of these exceptions: The AM Radio in Every...
Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" is the blockbuster that launched a million takes. The interpretations crowd my social media feed like Agamemnon's...
President Trump and members of his administration are (pick your metaphor) whistling past the graveyard, engaging in wishful thinking, and/or deluding...