Greg Harton
Recent Stories
COMMENTARY: School Field Trips Are Worth It
Not long ago, my son Jett became one of the thousands of area school children who took a field trip to see the collection at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Continue reading...
Developer’s Story One Of Excess
Northwest Arkansas is getting a real “how the mighty have fallen” story in the federal case against former Fayetteville developer Brandon Barber. Continue reading...
COMMENTARY: The Oscar Goes To … Everyone
Every year around this time, I hear something about how a growing number of high schools don’t name valedictorians anymore. Continue reading...
COMMENTARY: Mike Ross Gets Familiar With Area
Many in Northwest Arkansas, like myself, are only slightly aware of who Mike Ross is. He served 10 years in the Arkansas Legislature, creating a little name recognition across the state. His 12 years as a a congressman representing the state’s 4th Congressional District bolstered his statewide presence, but it’s sometimes hard enough to find people who know who represents our Third Congressional District here in the northwest corner. Continue reading...
COMMENTARY: Lindh Wants More Freedom
Sulayman al-Faris wants to pray five times a day with his Muslim brothers. You may remember him, although not by his preferred name. He was originally known as John Walker Lindh, the American man who traveled to Afghanistan to help the al-Qaeda-backed Taliban fight against the Afghan Northern Alliance. He was captured during the U.S. invasion in 2001 and took part in a violent Taliban prisoner revolt in which several hundred other prisoners died and an American CIA officer was killed. Lindh has proven over and over that he’s a traitor to his country. Continue reading...
COMMENTARY: Can Internet, Privacy Coexist?
Is the concept of privacy fading? We live in a world, still relatively new and evolving more rapidly than other transformational periods of the past, in which people check in to show others which donut shop they’re at; in which people express every thought to the watching world; in which we display personal photos to people we’d never have shown a family photo album to years ago. Continue reading...
COMMENTARY: Protection Shouldn’t Be Dismissed
Asa Hutchinson and the National Rifle Association have done more to advance the cause of school security than anyone devoted to the tiresome refrain of gun restrictions. Continue reading...
COMMENTARY: What Do You Want To Know?
Imagine, for a second, that I stand in front of your house and take a photo of what I see, then I devote time to jotting down some notes. Continue reading...
COMMENTARY: Any Hope In The Squabbling?
When I was a kid in junior high and high school, I didn’t care much for history. Like a lot of kids, I suppose, my concept of important events began with anything significant since my birth. That was the most important date in history, wasn’t it? Continue reading...
COMMENTARY: Yoo-Hoo, Yahoo! How About NWA?
It probably says something about the situation at Yahoo, the U.S.-based Internet company, that new CEO Marissa Mayer is bringing her employees back to the office. Continue reading...
Latest photos
Springdale police and firefighters work the scene of a three-vehicle accident Tuesday at Don Tyson Parkway and Thompson Street in ...
Caroline Solloway, 10, right, of Little Rock, explains Thursday the inspiration behind her artwork that won a Keep Fayetteville Be...
Hunter Rogers, right, with the Jones Center, loads bags Thursday filled with backpacks and school supplies from Gordan and Linda S...
The Cosmopolitan Hotel
Construction workers demolish the McDonalds restaurant at 1641 N. College Avenue Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011, to make way for constru...
