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History Minute: Venezuela

Venezuela is a land of 28 million people, rich in resources but deep in poverty. It has a long history but faces many challenges. The country has...

11.01.2026 2

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Bradly Gill

Letter to the Editor for Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026

11.01.2026 3

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Kate Flynn

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Questions for Hester on prison, kowtowing to Sarah

This will be about Gov. Sarah Sanders' hyperpartisan style, which is not news. It also will be about the prison debate in Arkansas, which is mainly...

11.01.2026 1

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John Brummett

Column: Living The Best life Possible -- Part Two

In my last column I touched on walking as part of your physical and mental fitness, and how important fitness is to live Your Best Life Possible....

03.01.2026 1

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Richard Mason

Column: New year means higher health-insurance rates

Happy New Year. Shoot a firecracker. Eat some black-eyed peas. Gird your loins for more expensive health insurance. In this case, the latter is not...

03.01.2026 1

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John Brummett

Column: Trumpian outrage overload must be managed for sanity's sake

28.12.2025 1

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John Brummett

Column: New Year's Resolutions

Well, do you make New Year's Resolutions? I think we all do, but most of the time we don't write them down. You get winded climbing a single flight...

28.12.2025 1

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Richard Mason

Letter to the Editor for Dec. 25, 2025

This Christmas As we are in the Yuletide season, of the year, we must remember to keep Christ in Christmas. This is a Holy holiday and many...

27.12.2025 1

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Kate Flynn

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

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Richard Mason

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 1

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John Brummett

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 1

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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 2

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Richard Mason

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