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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...
It's an uncommonly personal budget proposal by a single state legislator that affects a lone executive branch employee.
On Monday, preachers in Arkansas, including even the Republichristians and the Southern MAGAbaptists, were publicly expressing deep disapproval of...
On Monday, preachers in Arkansas, including even the Republichristians and the Southern MAGAbaptists, were publicly expressing deep disapproval of...
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...
The big Franklin County prison seems dead, and I probably should take out "seems."
Gov. Sarah Sanders’ State of the State Address last week to the Legislature was a run-of-the-mill presentation of platitudes, as those kinds of...
At least we know now that Arkansas is pure.
I keep thinking about the way the first Trump White House dealt with the challenge of a president who was seemingly mad, by which I don't mean angry,...
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My compliments to the reporter and editor who managed to make reasonably clear the article the other day relating that everybody is suing everybody...
Donald Trump had some of his favorite preachers--meaning preachers who praise him--over to the White House on Wednesday, appropriately April Fool's...
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,...
Gov. Sarah Sanders' new four-member majority on the seven-member state Board of Corrections voted Monday to concede the prison system to her.
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The state Democratic Party announced Thursday morning that Kamala Harris would speak at its Shackelford Fisher Dinner in late April. The dinner was...
Hallie Shoffner, the Democratic candidate against U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, does sassy and effective campaign videos showing her talking directly into the...
A guest piece in the opinion section recently of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette railed disingenuously against a percolating public initiative for a...
Last week, the state Senate took votes on confirmation of interim gubernatorial appointments. Close legislative watchers saw one roll call as a sign...
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"Meet the Press" was a Sunday morning downer. There was great substance, all dreadful.
It's the law, and I'm all for obeying that. But let's not lose sight of the fear factor.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks of Fayetteville is the man you want whenever these legislators of ours try to pull some unconstitutional stunt...
U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks of Fayetteville is the man you want whenever these legislators of ours try to pull some unconstitutional stunt...
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Even as they backtracked, state officials clung to the fiction that they face a fiscal cliff by being like every other state and staying in the Public...
On Wednesday afternoon, the governor of the state issued an official proclamation of the state while standing in the official Governor's Mansion of...
I like it when true conservative Bradley Gitz writes the truth about the personal disgrace that is Donald Trump, standing up for real conservatism...
We don't have much of a two-party system in Arkansas. We've seldom really had one. We went from only nominally Democratic before Barack Obama to...
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In a presidential administration known for megalomania and testosterone, Kristi Noem exceeded the limit. Her heavily cosmeticized Annie Oakley act was...
"If you can't beat the governor in your own district, you shouldn't even be down here."--state Sen. Bryan King, who could.
Meantime, in Arkansas, there was primary voting as well.
With the nation at war, and amid internal Republican hostility in today's Arkansas primaries--not to mention with March Madness looming--only arrows...
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