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…

Here was the story as the press got it earlier this week:

Heckling 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…

Very soon I'm going to do something so terrifying and life-altering it potentially may alter and/or scar me forever.

Just 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…

For 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…

Be suspicious of tactics advanced in LEARNS

The Food and Drug Administration is considering allowing birth-control pills to be sold without a prescription. Some conservatives are raising predictable obje…

I'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…

It'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…

Last Wednesday, a friend (I call him Snek Man) DM'd me, quite concerned with what he was seeing on the newspaper's website.

It's fitting that Shelley Short, president and CEO of the Arkadelphia Regional Economic Development Alliance, is ordering something sweet with her coffee durin…

A leading anti-Trump Baptist theologian lamented Sunday on "Meet the Press" the absence of morality-based and character-based resistance to Donald Trump among …

We 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…

Wayne 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…