GREG HARTON: School, city leaders have a reunion
Have you ever been to a reunion of your senior class from high school?
Reunions always remind me why I built friendships with some fellow students or even teachers, but they've also over the years pr...
January 10, 2021
Has president earned our admiration?
Last week, I wondered what it means to admire someone.
Early last week, news arrived the Razorback legend Loyd Phillips had died at 75 from complications related to a stroke. He was part of the 1964 ...
January 3, 2021
GREG HARTON: Christmas with covid is disruptive
The weekly video "meetings" with my parents and brothers started months ago.
My not-always-technical family figured out the online video conferencing service Zoom as a substitute for the in-person vi...
December 20, 2020
GREG HARTON: Clark knew how to be a leader
I can't say I knew former Washington County Justice of the Peace Candy Clark well personally.
Clark served county residents through the Quorum Court from 2009 through 2014. She also contributed a gre...
December 13, 2020
GREG HARTON: Individual behaviors matter most
Over the course of the last two days of the work week, Benton and Washington counties contributed more than 1,000 positive covid-19 test results to the astonishing numbers the entire state posted.
On...
December 6, 2020
GREG HARTON: Will a shot get us back to freedom?
Apparent successes in the search for a covid-19 vaccine has people in Northwest Arkansas and across our country dreaming of carefree days, when visiting favorite establishments on Fayetteville's Dicks...
November 29, 2020
GREG HARTON: A good time to celebrate, separately
My folks are living their retirement years down in Sherwood, a town of about 32,000 people that blends pretty seamlessly into the Little Rock/North Little Rock metropolitan area.
The only thing I kne...
November 22, 2020
GREG HARTON: Response to Trump must be "prove it"
Donald Trump's allegations of rampant corruption and cheating in the election systems around the nation has the look and feel of a youngster who flips over a game board when he realizes he's going to ...
November 8, 2020
GREG HARTON: How, and how not, to judge
As I listened and watched the confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, it seemed to me that there was a lot to find objectionable.
About the ...
November 1, 2020
GREG HARTON: The president deserves our prayers
I don't care how much one disagrees or dislikes the sitting president of the United States, hearing that he's contracted a disease that's proven harmful or even deadly to people his age is unnerving a...
October 4, 2020
GREG HARTON: Covering news not really easy
It was a mostly peaceful parade until the convoy of cars passed the Texas Schoolbook Depository.
The massive dirigible had a mostly pleasant journey across the Atlantic before it descended for landin...
September 27, 2020
GREG HARTON: Trust great in government, but scrutiny is necessary
As Ronald Reagan suggested, "trust but verify" is a vital approach in governmental relations.
For every situation in which people are bilked, trust precedes deception.
One of my first big federal in...
September 20, 2020
GREG HARTON: Who's going to tend the fire?
Whether you're a young Boy Scout or a contestant on "Survivor," sooner or later you're going to have to learn how to make a fire.
You've got to figure out any chance for fire relies on the availabili...
September 6, 2020
GREG HARTON: A busy night for president, his challenger
On one hand, it's tempting to ignore the ramblings of the man who spoke Thursday night as Democrats wrapped up their national convention, attempting to draw the attention of Americans at a critical mo...
August 23, 2020
GREG HARTON: Absentee or not, voting a necessity
I haven't yet decided whether I'm going to apply to receive an absentee ballot for the Nov. 3 election.
According to the Arkansas Secretary of State's office, requesting the ballot by mail or electro...
August 16, 2020