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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 …

[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…

Estimating 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…

It'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…

In 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…

Asa Hutchinson hasn't lost the sense of humor I never really knew he had.

I  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,…

The Washington Post came out Sunday with a headline essentially saying it didn't believe its own poll that was conducted in partnership with ABC.

"... 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…

The 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 …

The Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) is a Little Rock jewel. Libraries can easily become passive repositories of books, places that just wait for residen…

Arkansas politics has always been about rural working-class distrust and resistance of government that seemed tone-deaf and full of itself.

OK, 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…

If skepticism could be used as fuel, Americans would already have ended their reliance on the internal combustion engine.

A Jonesboro couple who accused conservative local public school teachers Nancy Best and Cindi Talbot of treasonous and criminal behavior (along with much more)…