Local Opinion

This time Bubba McCoy called me, rather than the usual other way around.

As most of us recognize should we spend enough years on this planet, there are events in our lives that can't be explained, even by medical professionals.

Last Thursday afternoon, I watched my son and his fellow students in the class of 2021 walk across the stage at Bud Walton Arena. The investment he and his t...

Everyone appreciates a successful rescue.

I've been spending considerable time lately on padded treatment recliners in dentist and dermatology clinics. It's all part of my war on the inevitable physi...

A couple of weeks ago, a short item in the newspaper recognized a milestone for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. The state's medical school s...

District needs board leaders who care for all its students

End CIA, U.S. drug war; border crisis will cease

Last week's U.S. jobs report, which saw far fewer hires than expected, reignited an old, long-simmering debate about whether the social safety net creates a ...

Fellow House Republicans have booted Liz Cheney from GOP leadership, punishment for her having the stones to challenge Donald Trump's poisonous and anti-demo...

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:

Some weeks ago I found myself in Belk's Department Store in Rogers when Mother's Day merchandising and signage were in full array.

Is the best way to change the world to work within the system or outside it?

On Monday, the Food and Drug Administration granted authorization of Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds. An application for children ages 2 to...

I know a little bit about academia. My son is working on a doctorate in government along with a law degree at the University of Texas. He likely will spend a...