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The Christmas fruitcake

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West Memphis businesses making a charitable impact

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OPINION | REX NELSON: Osi Imomoh’s journey from Nigeria to Southland Casino Hotel

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A capital enterprise

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Little Rock’s Capital Hotel a Christmas destination

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The Southern Fried Podcast: Looking to the future of higher education with ASU Chancellor Todd Shields

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Arkansas political hangouts from Coachmen’s to Capital

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Crittenden County rising

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Arkansas location flagship for hospitality empire

06.12.2025 6

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West Memphis’ journey to become a music hub

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A wide-open city

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OPINION | REX NELSON: Art, food and drink in downtown Hot Springs

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The Southern Fried Podcast: 'South, Towards Home' with author Porter Briggs

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Investing in West Memphis

Until recently, three major events in this century defined the West Memphis area economy: a vote by the Arkansas Legislature in 2005, a flood along...

26.11.2025 10

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Thankful to live, work in place like Arkansas

At a time when our state and federal governments are headed by agents of dysfunction and disunity, one is wise not to look toward the political sector...

26.11.2025 10

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From baths to slots

The peak of bathing in Hot Springs was 1946. More than a million baths were taken by visitors from across the country that year. In 1947, a steady...

03.11.2025 5

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The heyday of the Spa City’s godfathers

Mayor Leo McLaughlin was firmly in control of Hot Springs by the time gangster Owney Madden arrived in the 1930s."McLaughlin

02.11.2025 4

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The Southern Fried Podcast: Arkansas bike trails and cycling events with Michael Spivey

On this week’s episode, Rex Nelson sits down with the president and CEO of the Ozark Foundation, Michael Spivey, to talk about the non-profit’s...

01.11.2025 9

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Leo and the Killer

The meeting room at the Arlington Hotel is packed as Robert Raines, founder of the Gangster Museum of America, and I begin a talk about the history of...

30.10.2025 5

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Kevin Costner and Spa City

Five years ago, actor Kevin Costner told a satellite radio interviewer that he had chosen Hot Springs as the site for a museum showcasing his movie...

27.10.2025 3

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The place for players

Some of the best 14-year-old baseball players in the world visited Hot Springs in August for the Babe Ruth World Series. It seemed appropriate that...

27.10.2025 4

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A bathhouse reborn

There's a lot happening in downtown Hot Springs these days.

26.10.2025 4

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OPINION | REX NELSON: Hot Springs’ Little Poison

Of all the great athletes who have come from Arkansas, Paul Runyan is one of the most accomplished, yet least known.

23.10.2025 3

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A baseball city

I go to Hot Springs each August to interview some of the greatest players in baseball history.

20.10.2025 40

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Hot Springs and golf

Earlier this month, more than 100 amateur golfers from around the world gathered at Hot Springs Country Club for the 18th annual U.S.

19.10.2025 4

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Keeping Little Rock beautiful with Capi Peck and Norm Berner

In this week’s episode, Rex talks with Little Rock City Director Capi Peck and Friends of Fourche Creek board member Norm Berner about Little...

18.10.2025 3

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Hope for Army-Navy

I began a column last year on the former Army-Navy Hospital this way: "It looms over historic downtown Hot Springs like a ghost.

16.10.2025 30

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The four lakes

Hot Springs became a health resort because of its mineral water. That was long before what I call the "lake era." These days, people more often think...

13.10.2025 50

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70 years at the lake

It's hard to concentrate when visiting with Bill Barnes inside his office at Mountain Harbor Resort & Spa on Lake Ouachita.

12.10.2025 10

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The Spa City’s evolution

I often refer to Steve Arrison as the P.T.

09.10.2025 9

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Holiday Inn to Hot Springs

In the summer of 1998, Steve Arrison left his job as head of the Pine Bluff Convention Center and Pine Bluff Convention and Visitors Bureau to move to...

06.10.2025 4

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Napa Valley of sake

Arkansas is the U.S. rice capital, growing almost 50 percent of the nation's rice.

05.10.2025 4

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The Southern Fried Podcast: Science and STEM with Bentonville Amazeum CEO Sam Dean

In this week’s episode, Rex talks with Sam Dean, Executive Director and CEO of the Scott Family Amazeum in Bentonville, about the hands-on approach...

04.10.2025 10

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The Mountain Valley story

Lockett's Spring Water was once sold from a spring near Hot Springs.

02.10.2025 4

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A new Mr. Hot Springs

For many years, Bob Wheeler was known as Mr. Hot Springs. Wheeler, who died in April 2009 following a lengthy battle with Alzheimer's disease, served...

29.09.2025 5

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Water, water Everywhere

Water brought people to Hot Springs thousands of years ago. Native Americans agreed to make what became known as the Valley of the Vapors a spot for...

29.09.2025 10

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The road to respectability

Kevin Smith and I became friends in the 1980s.

28.09.2025 3

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Rise and fall of KIPP

During the years I worked in the governor's office and then as a presidential appointee to the Delta Regional Authority (1996-2009), I often took...

25.09.2025 5

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Uniting a divided state

A friend in northwest Arkansas sent me a message after going to the fitness center on Walmart's new corporate campus in Bentonville.

22.09.2025 5

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Jewish decline in the Delta

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Jews were an accepted part of life in the Mississippi River port city of Helena, which was thriving at the...

21.09.2025 4

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The Southern Fried Podcast: Architecture history, innovations and technology in Arkansas with Dean Peter MacKeith

In this week's episode, Rex talks with Peter MacKeith, Dean of the Fay Jones School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas' Fayetteville...

20.09.2025 4

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Helena’s Jewish heritage

The high spot along the Mississippi River where Crowley's Ridge ends was attractive to settlers as early as 1820.

18.09.2025 5

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Marianna’s barbecue kings

James Beard Awards are to the food industry what Pulitzer Prizes are to journalism, Academy Awards are to movies, Tony Awards are to theater, Grammy...

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With all due respect to my friends in Texas, I believe the best barbecue in the world can be found in an area around Memphis that includes parts of...

14.09.2025 7

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I make sure to leave Little Rock no later than 8 a.m.

11.09.2025 10

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