Local Opinion

Data say vaccines, masks

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

No shot? No hospital

A new Treasury Department report finds that the United States is losing $163 billion per year because of tax evasion by the top 1% of earners. The story is m...

It was just a game. But, oh, what a game it was.

I was in the car with Graham Cobb, who heads the Greater Bentonville Area Chamber of Commerce, on a May afternoon when it hit me just how explosive the city'...

I came up in the Church of Christ in the '60s, so I know about religious exemptions. We were against just about everything.

Human freedom has many threats.

President Joe Biden's latest initiatives against covid-19, including more vaccination mandates, were certain to trigger pushback.

Sarah Sanders has dipped into her Trump-network campaign millions for an opening television spot.

Score another significant victory for our Freedom of Information Act thanks to a ruling from Washington County Circuit Judge Mark Lindsay.

The morning after the 9/11 attacks, I was driving to work and listening to the radio. The commentator was talking about how everything had changed in America...

The central problem of international affairs is war between nation-states. The central cause of war between nation-states is weakness.

Despite county's woes,

The late Indian Hindu leader and political figure Mahatma Gandhi, assassinated by a religious zealot during a prayer meeting in 1948, speaks to our nation to...