Mike Masterson
Recent Stories
Clamping Jaws on hit season
Most Arkansas wouldn’t know 81-year-old John Williams if they saw him strolling Fayetteville’s Dickson Street. Yet they really do know him very well in their hearts and minds through his gifts of enduring and endearing music that virtually everyone across the planet recognizes. Continue reading...
More on permit
Grounds to revoke?
I was waiting at week’s end to hear what Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality Director Teresa Marks will do with that ball bouncing in her court. Continue reading...
Agog over farmer’s essay
I’m still aghast and agog at the eloquent guest-writer essay by Newton County hog CAFO co-owner Jason Henson published on last Saturday’s Voices page. Continue reading...
Subject of concern
While the Farm Service Agency was guaranteeing the federal loan to C&H Hog Farms and concluding the farm posed no significant environmental impact to the Buffalo National River, the state’s Department of Health was expressing concerns over polluting the river with dangerous pathogens from swine waste, according to a letter dated March 21, 2013. Continue reading...
Love of a lifetime
Value of our moms
The record-setting snow and cold winds are long gone and Mother’s Day has arrived. Continue reading...
Court battle looms over hogs
It was inevitable that forces intent on preserving the ecology of the pristine Buffalo River would challenge the government’s approval of that industrial hog farm at Mount Judea. Continue reading...
Reflective reunion
There was no way to know our annual May reunion would be a weekend assailed by three cold days of wind, rain and snow. Continue reading...
Abuses continue
Our veterans suffer
Merciful father, will the rain of patient abuse and neglect at the veterans home in Fayetteville never end? Continue reading...
CAFO crowd overflows
The vast meeting room inside Fayetteville’s Public Library was overflowing at the dinner hour Wednesday. Each seat was occupied. Continue reading...
Not so different
If we somehow could meld creative Fayetteville and artistic Eureka Springs into a single vibrant community, this new “Fayettesprings” has a kindred city only a day’s drive west along Interstate 40. Continue reading...
