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During a pregame ceremony at Dickey-Stephens Park in North Little Rock on Saturday, the Arkansas Travelers will retire jersey No. 6 in honor of...
I enjoy attending Arkansas Travelers baseball games in these waning days of summer. I realize I'm one of the few.
In October 2024, the University of Arkansas System Board of Trustees approved the University of Arkansas at Monticello's first doctoral offering. It's...
I'm having lunch at the Arkansas classic known as Ray's in Monticello with Hud Jackson, former head football coach at the University of Arkansas at...
Peggy Doss is the first graduate of the University of Arkansas at Monticello to serve as the school's chancellor. Not only a UAM graduate, she's a...
Like so many small communities across rural Arkansas, Wilmar in Drew County is dying. In 1920, however, it was thriving with a population of 1,034...
In this week’s episode, Rex Nelson talks with the President of Hendrix College in Conway, Dr. Karen Petersen, about the shift in higher education...
Monticello long has been a center of education for the southeast quadrant of the state. Some past residents even promoted it as the Athens of...
In south Arkansas, the timber industry remains king, though that sector of the economy has fallen on hard times in recent years. During the next...
Monticello was known as a center for education in south Arkansas long before what's now the University of Arkansas at Monticello held its first...
From the 1880s through the 1920s, there was a period of Arkansas history known as the Big Cut. Out-of-state investors came to Arkansas to harvest the...
In south Arkansas, the timber industry remains king, though that sector of the economy has fallen on hard times in recent years. During the next...
By the 1830s, American settlers had established a community deep in the pine woods of south Arkansas known as Rough and Ready. That community was near...
I'm in Monticello for a conference when I decide to make the short drive south through the pine forests to Crossett. That's because Crossett is home...
In this week’s episode, Rex Nelson talks with Luminark Global’s co-founder, Mike Steely, about the rapidly evolving landscape of AI and how it...
Yale University seems like an unlikely place for one of the nation's top forestry schools. But the congressman for Arkansas' 4th District, U.S. Rep....
In a 1987 issue of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Ellen Compton wrote about the Bradley County seat of Warren.
What's now Ashley County was formed from parts of Chicot, Drew and Union counties in November 1848. It was Arkansas' 53rd county and is the...
Edward Savage Crossett became known as one of the top Southern lumbermen, but he wasn't raised in the South. He was born in February 1828 in West...
I slow down during the short drive from Monticello to Warren in order to watch construction taking place on Weyerhaeuser Co.'s new facility. The...
From the 1880s through the 1920s, Arkansans experienced an era known as the Big Cut. That's when the state's virgin timber was harvested from the...
Gov. Jim Guy Tucker's first letter on July 15, 1996, was on governor's office stationery. The letter said that Tucker was breaking his promise to...
In this week's episode, Rex Nelson sits down with the Chancellor of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Dr. Lowry Barnes.
On May 28, 1996, following his felony conviction in federal court, Gov. Jim Guy Tucker announced that he would resign as governor by July 15. That...
This month marks 30 years since Mike Huckabee became governor on what the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette described as "the most chaotic day in Arkansas'...
"He's not quitting."
It's difficult to comprehend the fact that it has been 30 years. July 15, 1996, was one of the most memorable days of my life. I remember it as if it...
Historian Ben Johnson of El Dorado has given far more thought than most Arkansans to where this state has been in the past 100 years and where...
Only about 180 miles of the 1,290-mile Red River touches or passes through Arkansas. The river, however, has had a huge impact on the southwest part...
Historian Ben Johnson of El Dorado has given far more thought than most Arkansans to where this state has been in the past 100 years and where it's...
In this week’s episode, Rex Nelson talks with the President and CEO of Arkansas Community Foundation, Jessica Hughes Ford about the foundation and...
Nothing has summed up the Donald Trump era of American politics as well as the recent Ultimate Fighting Championship spectacle at the White House....
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.
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