OPINION | GREG HARTON: Gov. Hutchinson sits down for an interview as he approaches end of final term
Term limits are a double-edge sword.
Term limits are a double-edge sword.
Leslie Rutledge continues her practice of globbing onto distant litigation as long as it provides a partisan opportunity for state-paid promotion of, well, Les…
It seems easy for some folks, but I've always had a hard time classifying people as either entirely upright, good and moral or entirely evil and lacking in hum…
Arkansas would be an even more wonderful place if it didn't need new jail or prison space.
Civic involvement doesn't have to mean running for mayor or serving on a city council.
Our neck of the woods is home today to a lot of people who could declare "I wasn't born in Northwest Arkansas, but I got here as fast as I could."
Judging based on recent vacation trip, if I were to slip a particular curse word beginning with "F" into this opening paragraph and sprinkle it liberally throu…
I'm still not sure whether Bikes, Blues & BBQ, the massive motorcycle rally hosted in Fayetteville since 2000, is permanently departing for Rogers or making a …
"Half of official Washington is here to see democracy's finest show: the filibuster. The right to talk your head off. The American privilege of free speech in …
Christmas always brings back memories, a gift that can't be packaged but can deliver heartwarming smiles more meaningful than anything purchased at the store o…
We're smack in the middle of the season of good tidings of joy.
Last week at Fayetteville City Hall, the majority yielded, unexpectedly and likely temporarily, to the minority.
In the category of "you don't know what you've got until it's gone," the human body has probably thousands of functions we all take for granted every day.
If anyone ever doubted the United States is the gun capital of the universe, the last few weeks has delivered plenty of sworn testimony to that status.
It's an indication that we live in astonishing political times when Arkansas' two GOP senators and four Republican House members oppose an infrastructure bill …
I'd always heard, although not from any sources directly experienced on the matter, that one aspect people admired about the United States is that anyone can g…
I ended up in an unexpected place Thursday night.
"Defund the police" is perhaps one of the worst slogans of any campaign for change I've ever heard.
For public figures, one of the least pleasant and difficult things to do is to walk into a room full of people when you know the audience is largely at odds wi…
Gauging by a Benton County Quorum Court vote last week, vaccination mandates aren't the only pandemic idea some politicians want to stop. Just trying to persua…
A newspaper has only one front page.
Twenty years isn't just the measure of how long the United States has been in Afghanistan.
You know something interesting has happened when a lot of people start to care about what happens to jail inmates.
As a child, I would from time to time hear someone make a comment to the effect that "You could grow up to be president of the United States."
Publishing stories in a newspaper 365 days a year, reporters sooner or later will make a mistake. Hopefully it will be a small one, although to people striving…
Can you ever imagine yourself catching a ride on a bus when you've got a perfectly functional car sitting in your driveway?
Thirty years ago, director James Cameron and lead actor Arnold Schwarzenegger thrilled movie-going audiences with the second installment of a hit franchise wit…
Perhaps it's inevitable headlines, in Arkansas or any other state, are mostly occupied by movers and shakers like governors and senators. And sometimes by loud…
For me, YouTube is the Internet equivalent of quicksand.
My sons and I were headed to Lake Ouachita, near Hot Springs, for some boating, swimming and tent camping. Summer trips to the Brady Mountain campground were a…
It was tempting to skip watching the College World Series entirely this year after Arkansas' premature departure from the field in the Fayetteville super regio…
When the city of Fayetteville announced the other day its cultural arts corridor under development downtown will be branded as "The Ramble," I wasn't sure whet…
Student debt in the United States totals more than $1.6 trillion.
Our alarm clock went off way too early on July 13, 2018. On a long-dreamed-of family trip to Europe, we'd already packed in as much sightseeing as we could, bu…
The government wants you to do it. It's spending millions of dollars trying to entice you. Just about everywhere you turn, there are radio, TV and newspaper ad…
As I watched Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee answer questions from reporters, I thought back to lessons every reporter has to learn.
Last Thursday afternoon, I watched my son and his fellow students in the class of 2021 walk across the stage at Bud Walton Arena. The investment he and his tea…
Mother's Day feels a little bit different this year.
The Arkansas Legislature has completed its work for the year.
Last week, Tim Scott, the only Black Republican U.S. senator, provided his party's response to President Joe Biden's address to a joint session of Congress.
Whether you're a conservative who believes the reach of government ought to be limited or a liberal who views government as the most direct mechanism for good,…
A few years ago, Time Magazine reported gardening as the most popular hobby in the United States. Behind it at No. 2 was genealogy, the in-depth exploration of…
Let's say Jack Daniel's makes some whiskey, as I've heard they've done from time to time, and I drink some of it exactly as it's designed to be consumed. It's …
Working from home has given me a bit more of an opportunity to listen in on the Minneapolis, Minn., trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin.
It's certainly not a lock that legal reforms in California will make their way eastward, spreading to the rest of the country.
The Arkansas Legislature is in session, so that means there must be a discussion of the state's official flag and what it means.
History can disappear. It happens all the time.