COMMENTARY: Reading For Pleasure Important
The counselor and I were chatting about favorite books as her young charges at the Rogers Activity Center’s Summer Day Camp checked out the volumes they could …
The counselor and I were chatting about favorite books as her young charges at the Rogers Activity Center’s Summer Day Camp checked out the volumes they could …
News last week that Ryan’s Clothing Store in downtown Springdale is closing made me sad.
If I had money, I would bet that in a dark, smoky room in Bentonville, there has been discussion of moving the Confederate soldier statue from the square.
Ahhhh, Food Network. A bastion of morality on television, which could use a bastion or two.
“Hey you! “Yeah, you in the Pig Trail T-shirt. “Sit down!”
It’s not “BoliVAR”! “It’s Boliverr,” I wanted to say, but I bit my tongue and the meeting went on.
Woo hoo! It looks like the Arkansas Music Pavilion is moving to Rogers. Woo hoo! It’s about time we get a “cultural” venue.
Well, well, well. It’s going to be up to Mayor Greg Hines and Lesli Ossenfort, director of the Adult Wellness Center, to decide what the new membership fees f…
“Do they know,” the boss asked me, “what a wet willy is?” All I could do was shrug my shoulders, shake my head and reply something like, “Surely they do. Sure…
A horned toad and a grasshopper. I think it is just great these fun metal creatures popped up in Centennial Park on South First Street.
You know how they say bad times bring out the best in people? We certainly saw that in Boston, where unspeakable violence occurred last week.
I like Norman Rockwell’s art.
All of this discussion of economic development at Rogers Municipal Airport reminds me of beer cheese soup.
By the time you read this, the temperature will be inching upward and thunderstorms are predicted to be on the horizon.
I am aggravated at our state Legislature. Really aggravated.
Dolly Parton was there — or at least Dolly’s doppelganger, Sherrill Douglas, was.
Four people escaped injury Sunday when the single-engine aircraft they were in crashed at Rogers Municipal Airport-Carter Field after 8 p.m., authorities said.
If most of us announced we were having visions, it is likely we would be sent for psychiatric treatment, at the very least. We could even be committed to the S…
Poor Lowell. I mean, what can you say about their woes but just that? Poor Lowell. Here they are squeezed between Rogers and Springdale, trying to make somet…
We awoke Monday morning to news that Pope Benedict XVI will resign at the end of the month.
The Rogers School District is in a hot water with some patrons. District officials finally revealed proposed boundary changes this week. They are likely to be…
Honestly, I didn’t think I would live long enough to see a eastern corridor linking the region’s cities.
We’ve have had a lot of stories about good deeds and volunteers recently. It is kind of a holiday thing. Thankfully, bad news often slacks off during that tim…
Should the New York newspaper that printed the names and address of pistol permit holders have done so? No one has asked my opinion, but it has been a topic of…
Since the Mayans were wrong, I guess we had better start thinking about 2013. Actually, I understand the Mayans never predicted the end of the world, their ca…
I had planned a light-hearted Christmas column, but the events of recent days seem to call for something more serious.
Here it is, the end of 2012, and what can you say? There was a presidential election, a superstorm named Sandy and a royal pregnancy.
You’ve heard of urban deer hunts, right?
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
Election Day — I can do without it.
I hope, hope, hope, hope that Cory Booker is the standup guy he appears to be. Why? Because I could vote for him.
There we sat, westbound on Arkansas 340, not moving. I had an epiphany. Yes, two blown-out knees did stop me from going to arts and crafts shows for the last …
Well, it happened. A tornado hit Rogers on Saturday night. Guess that old tale about the American Indian chief blessing the city so it would never have a torn…
Sign dancers. We’ve got them in Rogers, but maybe not for long.
Have you heard about the new game show? It’s called “Are You Smarter than the Lieutenant Governor?”
Some people in Springdale just don’t feel the Love’s. Travel Center that is.
Is there anything more comforting than the new edition of The Old Farmer’s Almanac?
We get into all sorts of discussions in the newsroom.
I remember it from childhood. I know Dad had it on a 78 — that would be a vinyl album to those who don’t remember anything before cassette tapes came on the sc…
You know you have watched too much Olympic competition when? Well, in my case, it was when I decided that images in a track photo finish looked like Claymatio…
“Can I read my book?” How often do you hear that question? I heard it July 19 while volunteering at Pages & Pictures Literacy Fair held in conjunction with t…
Numbers can say whatever you want them to say. This is one of the very first things you are taught in journalism school.
We’ve gotta get us one — or more — of these. That was my first reaction to an NBC Nightly News report about adult playgrounds.
I get a lot of telephone calls during the course of a day.
Richard Feast had the heart of a true public servant.
There’s this little state law we reporters sometimes refer to called the Freedom of Information Act. FOI or FOIA for short. Here’s the thing about this little…
WHAAAAT? That was the general reaction in the newsroom upon learning the Times-Picayune, the venerable daily newspaper in New Orleans, will soon print a paper…
As dusk fell, the hummingbirds flitted around the feeders and zipped from tree to tree. Next, the fireflies — lightning bugs to many of us — arrived as dark f…
The high schoolers are headed off to college or the military or, gasp, to a job.
For a split second, the video took my breath away.