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Before dinner Saturday night I got a sour stomach, weird for the timing. A couple of hours later my nose began running like crazy. I might’ve guessed allergies for the time of year and the suddenly cooler temps but for the acid-y stomach. It’s time for the fall cold, a couple of really annoying days […]
The GOP has reduced itself from a Big Tent of several degrees of conservatism to a single BAM — By Any Means. Acting as host of the 2026 Labor Day picnic of Local 965 and the NWA Labor Council picnic on Sept. 7 — genially, I hope — I emceed the program that comprised stump […]
State of This Union — President’s Message August and the University of Arkansas 2026-2027 term has begun. How did you spend your summer? I spent bits of mine wondering why I never got more excited about the nation’s 250th Independence Day compared to, say, last year’s 249th. It doesn’t seem to be just me. In […]
State of This Union — President’s Message One advantage leaders can have is anything they do or say seems important. Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders issued a statement and held a press event July 14 announcing that the “First Liberty Institute’s Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy’s Religious Liberty in the States index” found that Arkansas […]
By this time in our three-decade-plus marriage I know too well what my spouse refuses to eat. Well, there’s no disguising okra. But I can expect the classic eggplant-dominating casserole ratatouille will find favor once and sometimes twice a summer. The key is precooking the eggplant separately — food journalist Mark Bittman says, “There are […]
An Editor’s Note “Why should (I) join Local 965/AEA/NEA?” That is one of the two top questions that other 965 leaders and I get when friends and strangers learn of our affiliation. The other question is more of a statement: “I didn’t know the UA had a labor union.” There has been an active workers […]