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Opinion: Arkansas Ledge's new aim -- taking power from the people

Opinion: Arkansas Ledge's new aim -- taking power from the people
20.12.2025 1

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John Brummett

Column: Christmases Remembered

Of course, sometimes the Christmases you remember are sad, like being separated from your family, and I have had several of those related to my...

20.12.2025 1

El Dorado News Times

Richard Mason

Column: Republicans set board for health-insurance chess game

Column: Republicans set board for health-insurance chess game

Here we are, three weeks from the end of the year when, absent action, the bottom will fall out on American health insurance. Republicans, who gave...

14.12.2025 2

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John Brummett

Column: Hot Checks

Column: Hot Checks

Article 5, § 9 of the Arkansas Constitution states: "No person hereafter convicted of embezzlement of public money, bribery, forgery or other...

14.12.2025 2

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Robert Steinbuch

Column: My Collections

First off, I'm a collector of a lot of different items, but historic maps, I consider my primary obsession. I got my start at the University of...

14.12.2025 1

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Richard Mason

Column: History Minute — Judge Andrew Scott

Column: History Minute — Judge Andrew Scott

Reputations are built over years of work. But one act can destroy that reputation forever. Judge Andrew Scott, an early territorial judge, saw a...

14.12.2025 1

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Ken Bridges

Column: It's all about the play-pretties

Column: It's all about the play-pretties
06.12.2025 1

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John Brummett

Column: 'Richard hasn't come back from the Creek'

My mother said that to the search teams when I didn't show back up after going fishing down Goodwin Creek just below my house. OK, maybe I was gone...

06.12.2025 1

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Richard Mason

Column: It's all politics | The socialist and the fascist

29.11.2025 2

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John Brummett

Column: El Dorado's Christmas, holiday lights

In 1975, the first Christmas after we had moved back to South Arkansas from Corpus Christi, Texas, there may have been a few tacky Christmas Lights...

29.11.2025 1

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Richard Mason

Column: Lessons for Democrats from New York City's election

The most consequential election last week occurred in New York City. A competent and talented Democratic Socialist, a fresh face, won the mayor's...

26.11.2025 1

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John Brummett

Opinion: GOP health-care plan -- junk policies -- coming into focus

It is beginning to appear that Republicans in Washington are designing a plan to achieve their objective on health insurance. That aim is to serve...

26.11.2025 1

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John Brummett

Column: So, what was the shutdown about anyway?

Now that this strange government shutdown is strangely at a strange ending, some might be wondering what it was all about. So, let's avail...

26.11.2025 1

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John Brummett

Column: I am a Free-Range Southern Boy

On numerous occasions General Lee called the Army of Northern Virginia "His Boys". Now I'm not trying to glamorize the Confederacy or even General...

26.11.2025 1

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Richard Mason

Column: Teaching climate change in Arkansas schools

First, before we even consider teaching a subject such as Climate Change, we must accept that the subject is not a theory anymore. It is proven...

26.11.2025 1

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Richard Mason

Column: A to-do list for the ledge

The Legislature doesn't meet until January, but I want to give them plenty of time to draft some needed bills. Now is the time to draft the 2026...

26.11.2025 1

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Richard Mason