Opinion

Agriculture has long been the backbone of our state's economy.

As you age, these once relished holiday weekends usually bring about that all-encompassing sad announcement of a friend's death. The announcement just as the M…

When he was in elementary school, my dad attended a one-room school house in the Fairmount community, about three miles southeast of Gentry, Arkansas. As I und…

A campaign to curb greed was key to the first fight against child labor. With GOP states putting young kids to work, we need that battle again.

As a teenager, I and my fellow students at Little Rock's Mills High School took the ASVAB test. It was, and still is, the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Ba…

It is time for a break from the "politics" of the day and focus on some summertime reads.

Lest we forget

When the public announcement was made by the well liked Speaker of the Arkansas House that it was "time to move back" into the seats found in the lower Chamber…

Somehow, I do not have the same self-assurance of our youthful governor when it comes to knowing that the Arkansas Legislature did not make a mistake on these …

It's galaxy season again! As Earth swings around its orbit in the spring, it faces off the plain of the Milky Way and at night it faces a part of the sky that …

A teenage boy rings the wrong doorbell and is shot in the face. A 20-year-old woman is fatally shot when she and her friends pull into the wrong driveway. Two …

ER LOVE OF NATIONAL PRESS,

Without winter, spring would be less pleasant

Mother's Day is this weekend

As an amateur astronomer, it is easy for me to neglect the Moon. Over the last 50+ years I have been observing phenomena in the night sky, I have seen the Moon…