Opinion
For weeks, we'd been half-heartedly shopping animal shelter and rescue websites and quietly putting the word out. It was a little discouraging--we had specific…
by Karen Martin March 26, 2023I am writing this on my phone from a jungle on the beach in Costa Rica. My hammock is slung between a palm tree full of coconuts and an almond tree whose fruit…
March 26, 2023Humans like to live on slightly elevated sites with a view of water. Flat farmland nearby is desirable as well. If you like to see human affinities explained a…
by BROOKE GREENBERG March 26, 2023Since 2005, more than 2,500 local newspapers have closed, with more on the way.
by THOMAS E. PATTERSON The Conversation March 26, 2023March 12 marked the 50th anniversary of the death of one of the most influential county sheriffs in Arkansas history, Robert Moore Sr. of Desha County. He had …
by Rex Nelson March 26, 2023The ongoing revision of Rep. Mary Bentley's once-defeated House Bill 1610, which caters to protecting special interests over the people's right to fully unders…
by Mike Masterson March 26, 2023Bubba McCoy said my call had caught him on spring break, and asked, "Did we have spring break back in our day?"
by John Brummett March 26, 2023Making up enemies
March 26, 2023As opposing sides in the debate over jail expansions in Northwest Arkansas continue to spar, it seems one particular point inspires some agreement: The best re…
by NWA Democrat-Gazette March 26, 2023From the mad, mad world of "woo pig, sooiee!" and the men's NCAA Basketball Tournament came Thursday's disappointing loss to an unstoppable University of Conne…
by NWA Democrat-Gazette March 26, 2023"You simply melt right in,
by Greg Harton March 26, 2023Experience keeps a dear school, it's said, but some will learn in no other. Americans learned that lesson again this past week.
March 25, 2023The new UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report makes very clear what we stand to lose in the next decade without a significant course correction: …
by THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS March 25, 2023March is Women's History Month in the U.S., and on most college campuses there is celebration of at least one week as Women's Week.
by DINA NASH Special to the Democrat-Gazette March 25, 2023As an Arkansas history aficionado, I love Fort Smith. I can spend a full day downtown, hanging out at Fort Smith National Historic Site and the adjacent Fort S…
by Rex Nelson March 25, 2023