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The long Independence Day weekend gives us time to contemplate the state of our country after 250 years. For those who specialize in writing about...
I have clear memories of July 3, 1976. I was 16 years old and had decided earlier that year to concentrate on getting ready for football season rather...
More of the things that need to happen soon in downtown Little Rock:
Graduation week is nearing as I sit on the porch of the Inn at Carnall Hall, a hotel on the campus of the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. An...
Americans familiar with the Red River think of it as the stream that emerges from two forks in the Texas Panhandle then flows east as it forms the...
The pace of change in downtown Little Rock is picking up. Several recent columns have outlined all that's going on or planned for the neighborhood...
In this week’s episode, Rex Nelson sits down with Doug Schoenrock, director of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, to talk about some of the...
My office is at the intersection of Capitol and Scott in downtown Little Rock. For years, I watched development take place in the nearby River Market...
Back when there were still newsstands that carried Sunday newspapers from across the country, I spent too much money buying papers. Being a newspaper...
My Arkansas road trips generally begin early and end late. For me, it's not a true road trip unless you have three meals in independently owned...
I'm having lunch at 42 Bar & Table inside the Clinton Presidential Center and eavesdropping. I enjoy hearing what visitors have to say about the...
For obvious reasons, the sports focus at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock has been on baseball in recent weeks. But those who follow college...
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...
Back when there were still newsstands that carried Sunday newspapers from across the country, I spent too much money buying papers. Being a newspaper...
I was assistant sports editor of the Arkansas Democrat in the winter of 1986, and University of Arkansas at Little Rock men's basketball was all the...
In this week’s episode, Rex Nelson talks with Dr. Nirvana Manning, head of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UAMS, about maternal health in Arkansas.
The social media feeding frenzy has become a staple of American life. People see misinformation on social media, believe it and then share it. They...
I'm in my room at The Haywood, one of the state's finest hotels, and I have two books to keep me company.
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...
I'm in my room at The Haywood, one of the state's finest hotels, and I have two books to keep me company.
Almost nine years after it was conceived, El Dorado's Murphy Arts District (commonly known as MAD) is still going strong. The idea behind MAD was...
It's early on a spring morning in downtown El Dorado, yet things already are hopping at Off the Rail Cafe. The restaurant is in a rail car that was...
I love baseball, so it's safe to assume that I smile whenever I see a ballpark being built. I'm also an advocate of downtown revitalization, so it's...
It has been more than three years since the Arkansas Legislature approved the LEARNS Act, a bill that contained Gov. Sarah Sanders' voucher scheme. It...
This week’s episode is the second half of a conversation between Rex Nelson and Marion School District Superintendent Glen Fenter about public...
With the Arkansas General Assembly having completed its work for the year (unless Gov. Sarah Sanders finds a reason to call another special session),...
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'm not opposed to Gov. Sarah Sanders' voucher scheme because I dislike the idea of school choice. I've long been supportive of public charter...
Few things annoy me more than a social-media feeding frenzy. It's particularly annoying when I see normally calm, thoughtful people who are caught up...
The Washington Post published a story several months ago with this headline: "There's a reason electricity prices have been rising. And it's not data...
In their early years as a married couple, my parents were "school people." That's what we always called them in our family. The word you hear these...
In Wednesday's column, I wrote about Entergy Corp.'s plans to build a natural gas-fired power plant in Hot Spring County to replace the company's Lake...
This week’s episode is the first of a two part series in which Rex Nelson talks with Marion School District Superintendent Glen Fenter about public...
The Arkansas data-center boom has begun. And despite what alarmists say on social media, energy providers have plans in place to supply the power...
In the race to build data centers across Arkansas, the Google campus at West Memphis has taken the lead. Google is already hiring electrical engineers...
In a series of recent columns about southeast Arkansas, I've stated that the two most significant institutions in the region are the University of...
To use the term that was popular in Arkansas during Reconstruction, John Middleton Clayton was a carpetbagger. Born in October 1840 on a farm near...
During a special meeting last month, the board of the Economic Development Corp. of Clark County voted to sell a 991-acre tract known as the Southwest...
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,...
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,...
In this week’s episode, Rex Nelson talks with Saracen Casino’s Chief Marketing Officer, Carlton Saffa and Red Oak Steakhouse’s Maître D', Ken...
I've written that we're at least several years from even the best Democratic candidate being able to win statewide office in Arkansas. That's how...
More than 200 business and civic leaders from across southeast Arkansas will gather at Grand Prairie Center in Stuttgart Thursday to talk about the...
We live in a small state. Dr. Lowry Barnes, chancellor of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and I have known each other since we were...
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...
John Olin was born into a wealthy family in November 1892 in Alton, Ill. These days, Olin Business School and Olin Library at Washington University in...
Southern food and culture expert John T. Edge recently made his way to the Arkansas Grand Prairie with a team of six people to prepare an episode of...
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 region's...
Many Arkansans are aware of the Blackwell Bottoms even if they don't know what the area is called. It's the flat Arkansas River bottomland that one...
In this week’s episode, Rex Nelson talks with Saracen Casino’s Chief Marketing Officer Carlton Saffa about his journey and how the casino came to be.
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