Opinion
Agriculture has long been the backbone of our state's economy.
by By Cecillea Pond-Mayo, Arkansas House of Representatives, chief information officer June 7, 2023As 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…
by Maylon Rice June 7, 2023When 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…
by Doug Chastain June 7, 2023A 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.
by By Sam Pizzigati, columnist June 7, 2023As 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…
by Greg Harton May 31, 2023It is time for a break from the "politics" of the day and focus on some summertime reads.
by Maylon Rice May 31, 2023Lest we forget
May 31, 2023When 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…
by Maylon Rice May 24, 2023Somehow, 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 …
by Maylon Rice May 17, 2023It'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 …
by David Cater May 17, 2023A 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 …
by By Svante Myrick May 10, 2023ER LOVE OF NATIONAL PRESS,
by Maylon Rice May 10, 2023Without winter, spring would be less pleasant
May 10, 2023Mother's Day is this weekend
by Lynn Kutter May 10, 2023As 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…
by David Cater May 10, 2023