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Ranging from near-memoir to considerations of local news.

NAN Better

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

One more “A” and NAN would be tasty flatbread. As it is, it’s Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC, and the acronym was created, logo’d up, and announced by the new company. One suspects that was to delay unhappy people creating a snide abbreviation or nickname, as happened when the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette was formed in 1991 (my [...]

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Why Not Give at the P.O.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

(Yes, Eudora, there is a great short story titled “Why I Live at the P.O.”) During the boom economy, canned food drives always seemed odd to me. When a supermarket had a barrel near the door for customers to place an extra food staple for the poor, I would not comply. It was so blatant [...]

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Dog Dunning Deal

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Can’t blame the dog. I refuse to blame myself. If it weren’t for bashful kidneys I’d start whizzing on their yards myself. It’s this letter we received last week. Here is the letter. The main thing that gripes me is that this constitutes the first notice. There was neither a knock on the door by [...]

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Row Cover Not (Fight) Cover

Friday, May 29, 2009

Is this week’s garden visitor malicious or just curious? The greensward of our manse, Shady Hill, is pleased to house four, no, five beds this spring. The back yard has two for vegetables and one for herbs. The herb bed has one thriving, 6-foot tall asparagus, and we hope she’s pregnant. Next year I’ll move [...]

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Introducing Mani

Friday, April 17, 2009

This is dogging me. Now that we have a pup (14 months, actually) joining our two cats, our role in the world is changing fast. My Beloved and I are seen differently. We now number in the society of dog owners, as collegial and helpful, nipping and hypocritical, a group as humanity as a whole. [...]

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Charette Baby

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

This email is being distributed, chain-mail like, to every civic group and church group (it even was sent to my synagogue, probably the latter category for them).

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I’m just saying, I’m just saying

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Copyright 2008 Ben S. Pollock An evaluation of the run-off candidates for mayor of Fayetteville, Arkansas. The election is Tuesday the 25th, and early voting is under way. Though not today: The courthouse is closed. Brick never makes endorsements. Still, comments I’ve avoided should be made. The incumbent Dan Coody wants a third four-year term [...]

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Not in my Frontyard, Either

Friday, August 22, 2008

My Beloved and I celebrated the first cool weekend in months with a brief, tame adventure: to see the progress of the Fayetteville trails by bicycle. Lengths are now connected that weren’t before. We hit only a few incomplete patches along the Scull Creek and Gordon Long paths. Makes you wonder about Springdale. Maybe others [...]

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Mallets Reforethought

Thursday, July 31, 2008

The story of the June 14, 1986, croquet match played by former Arkansas Attorney General Steve Clark was so memorable to me I did not bother to check the facts when I summarized it last week. I had documents, I kept them in a file — a real manila paper folder, not an icon on [...]

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Mallets Aforethought

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Copyright 2008 Ben S. Pollock The race for mayor of Fayetteville seems to have a full roster although the filing period is Aug. 6-26. A surprise candidate or two would be welcome, especially if they’re capable sorts. All of the announced candidates could be competent. While this is no endorsement — though a pooh-bah I [...]

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