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I met Lisa when she emailed me a few years ago out of the blue. She introduced herself as a friend of Bill Bowden, the Democrat-Gazette writer I...
So, on Monday morning, they had a "60 Minutes" staff meeting with bagels for the newly hired leader--a technology columnist and documentary filmmaker...
T he recent closing of Primm, Nev.'s casino hotels should not be dismissed as just another Las Vegas-adjacent story. It should be studied by every...
From Indiana to Texas, President Donald Trump has been throwing his political weight around, using his clout to end the careers of Republicans who...
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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 been a while since I've been truly nerdy on this page. OK, gleefully word-nerdy; I have been civics-nerdy recently, such as my column on...
Last year, a report compiled at one of California's most prestigious public universities revealed that a significant percentage of incoming freshmen...
Coincident with the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the American Declaration of Independence is the 250th anniversary of the...
It's time to end the American dictatorship the direct and correct way. There are other ways, but they entail processes and take time. They must await...
As America approaches its 250th birthday next month, the country seems gripped by a familiar form of existential anxiety.
Democrats should come up with better cultural icons than washed-up and aging multimillionaire former talk show hosts.
It's a Roman holiday for Mayor Brandon Johnson and a cross section of Chicago's new elite.
Politics is the only profession of which I am aware in which competence doesn't seem to matter. One can fail miserably; one can be corrupt, and one...
From Roger Kahn and Roger Angell to Jim Bouton, Bill James and Philip Roth, the best baseball books are rarely just about the game. They are about...
Our republic rests on a clear premise: No branch of government possesses absolute authority, and no individual is above the law. In a single stroke,...
A libertarian sensibility begins with the assumption that people have different values that produce different preferences ("different strokes for...
Last Saturday morning, a member of my running group wanted to swing by the Pike-Fletcher-Terry House on Seventh Street. A front-page article in this...
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...
So now Carlton Wing is agreeable to Arkansas TV staying with PBS programming and says he has a good if not certain feeling about Thursday's meeting of...
"The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start."
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...
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I suffer from an affliction: being a teacher. Accuracy has always mattered to me. In my history and religion classes, I expected students to identify...
As the years slip by, it is easy to ignore climate changes and consider that they are simply fluctuations of a normal environment. You might think we...
Thirteen months ago, with little notice, we were asked to approve plans for a data center in Little Rock. The Little Rock Chamber of Commerce and...
The next time you want a pizza or a sausage biscuit or a bagel, or get hungry for what we like to call Mexican food, just know that there was a time...
It takes time to form an agreeable relationship with a new car. Vestiges of a former vehicle don't disappear willingly. Technology is far more...
More than any other sport, baseball is a game that's been analyzed to death, as though studying nine grown men playing a kids' game is somehow going...
Maybe you don't know anything about guitars. You might still recognize a Fender Stratocaster. It's an iconic design.
One day earlier this month, Katherine Blake was shopping at Cripple Creek Flea Market in Jacksonville when something caught her eye.
Every generation eventually rewrites George Washington, which tells you less about Washington than about the country doing the rewriting.
By the Reagan era, Hollywood had decided that upper-middle-class life was just what America looked like on a Tuesday. The illusion stuck around longer...
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...
As a proud former Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, I have always believed in limited government, free markets, and the rule...
Memorial Day marks the official start to summer blockbuster season, and while a $100 million opening weekend would be a success for just about any...
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Given that I attended five colleges, it's not that surprising that I switched phone services four times in four years.
Dear Mahatma: When traveling from a city and the sign says 86 miles to Little Rock, where is the spot that's measured to? Is it the center of the city...
This week’s episode is the second half of a conversation between Rex Nelson and Marion School District Superintendent Glen Fenter about public...
Donald Trump ballyhooed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act at every opportunity. He and most other Republicans think voters will be pleasantly surprised...
The paradigm-shifting reforms of the LEARNS Act, and its predictable oppositions, inspired me to update a column I wrote 25 years ago, called "10...
America will spend years unraveling the opioid crisis--how it began, who was responsible, and how addiction to these drugs devastated communities...
Supporters of Washington state's impending 9.9 percent millionaire tax celebrated the state Supreme Court's unanimous ruling blocking a voter...
Even as the U.S. and Iran wrestle over an agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, surging gas prices have turned the government's attention to a...
Government agencies in Arkansas too often continue to stumble over one of the simplest obligations in the Freedom of Information Act: the duty to...
Recently David Letterman was talking with Bill Simmons about television and landed on a surprisingly emotional subject: ESPN's "Pardon the...
Criterion’s superb new 4K release of Lawrence Kasdan’s neo-noir revives one of the last genuinely adult Hollywood thrillers — a movie about...
It isn't hard to see the case for striking a deal with Iran, one that will turn the current shaky ceasefire into a long-term truce.
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