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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 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 […]
An Awkward Salute to Black History Month My late Uncle George was a funny guy. That’s how he thought of himself and how his friends and community saw him, too. He was quick with a quip, usually smutty. He kept these jokes out of my earshot until I reached high school. I was crazy about […]
It wasn’t work-of-genius good. In fact La La Land shouldn’t be rated on a four-star system because three and a half stars is ambiguous, but the movie was definitely four stars out of five ****o. Other write-ups say, often flatteringly, that the stars’ dancing was good, very good even, but not great. That’s the wrong angle. Leads Ryan Gosling […]
As a volunteer with the refugee resettlement group Canopy Northwest Arkansas, I made a family’s first meal in their new home. The mom and dad, ages 30 and 28, have been living in camps since fleeing Democratic Republic of Congo in 2003. Their son just turned 6. Who knows what they’ve been eating all this time. A recipe, […]