Local Opinion
Over the past few months, many people have asked my thoughts on why the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and the IDEALS Institute at the University …
by Rickey Booker Jr. September 28, 2023[THUMBS UP] It was great to see the secretary for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs show up in Bentonville on Tuesday to talk about the prevention of sui…
by NWA Democrat-Gazette September 28, 2023Estimating how much work and money it will take to clean up a problematic, 75-year-old lake is a complex task. You've got to wade into it without knowing wheth…
by NWA Democrat-Gazette September 27, 2023It's hard sometimes to understand the people who are perpetually ticked off by ... well, let's be honest ... anything that doesn't fit their worldview and/or m…
by Brenda Looper September 27, 2023In last Wednesday's column about the 1973 Ozark Mountain Folk Fair, which was held just north of Eureka Springs and called by some the Southern Woodstock, I me…
by Rex Nelson September 27, 2023Asa Hutchinson hasn't lost the sense of humor I never really knew he had.
by John Brummett September 27, 2023I awoke the other day thinking of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's decree last week that senators could dress on the Senate floor like garage mechanics,…
by Mike Masterson September 26, 2023The Washington Post came out Sunday with a headline essentially saying it didn't believe its own poll that was conducted in partnership with ABC.
by John Brummett September 26, 2023"... European newcomers saw the land as an enemy to be vanquished. The Indians saw the prairie and forests as a benefactor, and they practiced a benign tenancy…
by Fran Alexander September 26, 2023The questions linger because they haven't been fully answered even after 35 years: Who thought it was a good idea to put Michael Dukakis in that tank? And why …
by Bradley Gitz September 25, 2023The Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) is a Little Rock jewel. Libraries can easily become passive repositories of books, places that just wait for residen…
by Steve Straessle September 25, 2023Arkansas politics has always been about rural working-class distrust and resistance of government that seemed tone-deaf and full of itself.
by John Brummett September 24, 2023OK, we get it: People pay attention to what most directly effects them. Everything else out there can, to use contemporary terminology, fall outside their band…
by NWA Democrat-Gazette September 24, 2023If skepticism could be used as fuel, Americans would already have ended their reliance on the internal combustion engine.
by Greg Harton September 24, 2023A Jonesboro couple who accused conservative local public school teachers Nancy Best and Cindi Talbot of treasonous and criminal behavior (along with much more)…
by Mike Masterson September 23, 2023