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Note to readers: The Howard County Elberta peaches showed up on the porch a little early this year. But it's never too early to rerun this ode to them...
The column Sunday came off harsher toward the late Gov.
In media and entertainment, nothing once big is big anymore.
The voters get to decide what to teach kids in school, and they do that through the kinds of politicians they elect.That's
Let me take a shot at a candid, paraphrased summation of the welcomed announcement Tuesday in a YouTube video by 37-year-old farmer advocate Hallie...
Democrat-Gazette onlineArkansas health care in poor rural areas, which account for the preponderance of acreage in the state, is reported to be...
The Arkansas Constitution is a jumbled mess.
Bubba McCoy answered the phone, and I asked whether he'd had a good July 4 holiday.
It's not as simple as right versus left.
All the big shots--the governor and leading legislators--profess a terse confidence.
It's the press' job to irritate.
A columnist is blessed if even one bright and serious reader takes time to analyze and critique his work in a careful, detailed, informed and...
Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" to run up the deficit and debt by trillions and kick millions off Medicaid and food stamps passed in the Senate...
Democrat-Gazette onlineThe U.S. Senate meets all night and through the next day and does nothing except argue and preen amid Democratic procedural...
Let us not lose sight of the issue.
I sent a text to Chris Jones, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee in 2022, saying I hoped we could talk about my hearing of his possibly running...
First, let's talk a little about the "f-bomb," which isn't what it used to be.
Democrat-Gazette onlineIs Donald Trump megalomaniacally mad, or does he pretend to be that on television and thereby apply tactical madness as his...
The national political condition is such that Democrats could be rendered incapable of winning the presidency or the U.S.
Readers still say they like the arrows.
I'd like to say that the letter to the editor was the best thing on the Voices page Sunday except for my column.
In American politics as currently diseased, cold-blooded murder can be less a cause for human grieving than a cause for partisan blame games.In
Seventeen years ago, I fell into--or perhaps I started--a public dust-up with a young woman reporter for a Little Rock television station.She
Sarah Sanders went on Fox News on Tuesday and did her thing for Donald Trump. She's no Karoline Leavitt, but she still has skills. Sanders'...
Everything is totally different about federalized troops activated in Los Angeles without a governor's request in 2025 and federalized troops...
The credibility of media reporting on politics plummets hourly.
Let us use as a guide The New York Times' piece over the weekend describing the anatomy of the burst of outsized infantility in Donald Trump and Elon...
An intellectual, atheist, neuroscientist and meditation advocate--that's all one person--was speaking on his podcast last week with a 37-year-old...
At the behest or command of Gov. Sarah Sanders, the Arkansas Board of Corrections is making final preparations to hire an architectural engineering...
Tim Walz was all over the political news last weekend.
A fellow from out in the country who drank a bit applied without invitation many years ago to be the editorial cartoonist for the old Arkansas...
Two fine conservative fellows forwarded me copies of President Donald Trump's pardon of former state Sen.
We need to stay up to date on the death spiral of the Democratic Party in presidential politics lest we wind up like students sleeping in algebra...
We must stop treating political issues and legal issues the same.
House Republicans in Washington were hugging and otherwise celebrating early Thursday morning.
"Thank goodness you called," Bubba McCoy said. "Otherwise, I wouldn't have any Memorial Day tradition left.
A coalition of direct-democracy advocates filed a proposed constitutional amendment Monday that would remove the Legislature's intentionally...
Democrat-Gazette onlineThe wise and venerable Democrat spoke with careful deliberation to younger admirers gathered around him at lunch.
The rock singer is a serious person. The president of the United States isn't.
It was great news for Arkansas and all other places where working poor people live.
Let's get right to the arrows. You know the drill.
One time, in an indoor pickleball contest, an opponent overhit the pickleball, similar to a wiffle ball, so badly that it came like a missile directly...
I recall the last time I wrote favorably in this space about a culturally connected and genuinely rural Arkansas woman with an interesting history...
There will be other commentaries this weekend on the pope, but those probably will be about the real one, the new one--Robert Prevost out of the north...
Joe Biden did an interview with the BBC on Tuesday.
Democrat-Gazette onlineAll hail the journalists working on "60 Minutes."
What we have for certain is a wildly reckless, say-anything president.
The legislative session will be formally adjourned Monday after a mid-April recess to await the governor's vetoes and the discovery of any technical...
Mainstream-media newsroom people with whom I've happily spent much of my life always struck me--generally speaking, of course--as impractical and kind...
Democrat-Gazette onlineThere apparently is not a catastrophic poll plummet for Donald Trump that Democrats can't manage to limbo under.