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The notoriously leaking North Arkansas Board of Regional Sanitation (NABORS) landfill, capped by the state nine years ago for serial violations and leaking lea…

Gov. Sarah Sanders' education bill now law set a minimum teacher salary of $50,000 and ordered $2,000 raises for teachers already above $50,000. It vowed to pr…

Once upon a time in Arkansas there lived a political cartoonist named George Fisher. Proposals by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for damming (thereby damning…

"Strangers aren't that strange. Try hosting," says the AirBnB commercial as it seeks out homeowners willing to turn their properties into tourist lodging.

At the heart of democratic theory is the idea that the people rule; that in the end, their wishes become codified in law and public policies. Put somewhat less…

I was on the back deck at home enjoying one of those rare warm afternoons in early March, listening to birds visiting and chimes dancing in the breeze.

Check it out: Librarians aren't enemies of the people.

We've allowed ourselves to become so divided as a nation that we can't even agree on how much sunlight at what hour to allow into our days as the seasons chang…

With his announcement that the Justice Department will seek to tighten up the definitions of who counts as a gun dealer and must then conduct mandated backgrou…

Several years back, in Sherwood, Ark., a large Walmart was being built next door to a smaller “neighborhood” Walmart on JFK/107. We were in the smaller store a…

Once upon a time, children, the United States was caught red-handed (and red-faced) when its president denied an international incident. His name was Eisenhowe…

I watched the Oscars the other night.

This week is recognized across the country as Sunshine Week, an annual observance by advocates of open government that recognizes the importance of keeping pub…

It's Thursday and another chance to fire off a few up or down thumbs about some of news developments in our neck of the woods and elsewhere:

From its inception, Fox News has done untold damage to the American body politic, not because it espouses conservative principles and beliefs but because of th…