Local Opinion
"If it shall be necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety that a measure shall become effective without delay, such necessity shall…
by NWA Democrat-Gazette May 20, 2023Here was the story as the press got it earlier this week:
by Arkansas Democrat-Gazette May 20, 2023Heckling mobs, determined to shout down speech they disagree with, are not unique to our time. Frederick Douglass’ encounter with one in 1845 can teach us much…
by GianCarlo Canaparo Tribune News Service May 20, 2023Very soon I'm going to do something so terrifying and life-altering it potentially may alter and/or scar me forever.
by Gary Smith May 19, 2023Just when you started thinking about the amount of land it would take to light up a city using solar power (you were thinking that, right?) here comes “floatin…
by Arkansas Democrat-Gazette May 19, 2023For more than 200 years, through the U.S. General Land Office and U.S. Grazing Service, the federal government has generated revenue by leasing federal land fo…
by Arkansas Democrat-Gazette May 19, 2023Be suspicious of tactics advanced in LEARNS
May 18, 2023The Food and Drug Administration is considering allowing birth-control pills to be sold without a prescription. Some conservatives are raising predictable obje…
by St. Louis Post-Dispatch (TNS) May 18, 2023I've never owned a gun and probably never will. But that doesn't mean I'm against law-abiding American citizens owning guns and using them for appropriate purp…
by Woody Bassett May 18, 2023It's Thursday and time for our semi-weekly offering of mini-editorials on topics near and far, but before we get into our Thursday thumbs, a word about graduat…
by NWA Democrat-Gazette May 18, 2023Last Wednesday, a friend (I call him Snek Man) DM'd me, quite concerned with what he was seeing on the newspaper's website.
by Brenda Looper May 17, 2023It's fitting that Shelley Short, president and CEO of the Arkadelphia Regional Economic Development Alliance, is ordering something sweet with her coffee durin…
by Rex Nelson May 17, 2023A leading anti-Trump Baptist theologian lamented Sunday on "Meet the Press" the absence of morality-based and character-based resistance to Donald Trump among …
by John Brummett May 17, 2023We suppose protecting one's flanks is a desirable thing to do when you're in a position of power that requires, by design, exposure to vulnerability every four…
by NWA Democrat-Gazette May 17, 2023Wayne Mays, a former colleague at the Hot Springs Sentinel-Record and the president of Arkansas Right to Life, recently sent a copy of my feature story about a…
by Mike Masterson May 16, 2023