OPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Write on
Imagine your assignment is to produce three opinion columns each week on issues of your choice. Just lay your message out there under your name for the world to evaluate.
There's no limit on subject ...
October 20, 2020
OPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Mapping it out
What if we could pinpoint three weeks in advance which regions can expect covid-19 outbreaks? We can.
You, too, probably never heard of Kinsa, founded in 2012 by public health specialist Inder Singh....
October 18, 2020
OPINION | MASTERSON ONLINE: What lies ahead
I've compiled a list of assorted predictions of what we can expect to experience across society in the relatively near future. I likely won't be around to see just how many I've nailed, but at that po...
October 17, 2020
OPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Words for life
With the births of my second granddaughter and first grandson years ago, I realized more than ever that this period of awareness we share is fleeting, uncertain and fragile.
In 2007 I offered persona...
October 13, 2020
OPINION | MASTERSON ONLINE: When God nods
Valued readers know of my proclivity for the inexplicable aspects of this brief lifetime we share. I've come to refer to these remarkable events as GodNods, which have struck me as divine intervention...
October 11, 2020
OPINION | MASTERSON ONLINE: Flowers following her faith
The Rev. Joanne Flowers, a devoted Black minister intent on carrying out the Lord's work in God's country, put faith first in moving to Harrison where her heart and prayers have assured her she's need...
October 10, 2020
OPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Elves to eternity
I've always appreciated homegrown Arkansas authors who use their available time and considerable energy to create entertaining books on many topics.
Of five I've read lately, one examines love, compa...
October 6, 2020
OPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Political football
File the following under "who knows what's true" in the grossly politicized information being spread about effectively treating covid-19.
Yet some recent findings certainly seem to me not only releva...
October 4, 2020
OPINION | MASTERSON ONLINE: Cruising to caravanning
In a nation awash in the turbulence of continual change, some things simply reshape themselves rather than changing. For instance, what Little Rock police today call caravanning we knew as cruising ba...
October 3, 2020
OPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: At crisis level
I recently read an admonition that financial illiteracy is the paramount economic crisis today. I never had a class about managing finances or understanding the intricacies of how our economy function...
September 29, 2020
OPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Free to speak?
Many respectable Americans sadly are allowing fear of ridicule and bullying to silence their voices in this land of the free and home of the brave. Visualize Third World nations.
The right of free sp...
September 27, 2020
OPINION | MASTERSON ONLINE: Guns on airplanes
I read the other day that Transportation Security Administration agents last year discovered a record number of firearms in airline carry-on luggage.
The TSA reported collecting 4,432 such weapons fr...
September 26, 2020
OPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Wise to wait
Since being diagnosed with Gleason 6 prostate cancer in 2019, I've chosen to practice watchful waiting to see just how fast, or if, the disease will spread to a dangerous level before my time here end...
September 22, 2020
OPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Furry Svengali
In the continuing saga of Benji, the feisty eight-pound Taco Terrier courtesy of the Boone County Humane Society Shelter, there's more to share.
The little fella has been with us about six months. An...
September 20, 2020
OPINION | MASTERSON ONLINE: Why not discussion?
I've written a lot over the decades about genuine "racists" versus the millions who are wrongly accused of being such.
And I've seen that today's criminal rioting, looting and related violence is the...
September 19, 2020