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Of Four Minds on Resistance

Last week a dozen or so members of area union locals gathered for the November meeting of the Northwest Arkansas Labor Council. The discussion was about a 2025 we can barely predict, one led by a Republican ticket dedicated in public remarks to a melding of dictatorship and anarchy that appeals this month to 49.83 […]

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Obituary for Jan Soderstrom

Jan Carol Altman Soderstrom, of Winston-Salem, N.C., died April 7, 2021, at the age of 71, of cancer. She was born May 22, 1949, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to the late Howard Altman and Joanne M. Pollock. She was an educator. Jan was raised from early childhood in Fort Smith, Arkansas, by Joanne and Ben S. […]

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Décolletage but Above the Neck

Week before last I was in an office for an appointment. We each observed physical distancing and wore cloth face coverings. We had an animated discussion. As the young professional talked her mask tended to slip down along her nose, caused by her jaw moving no doubt. In larger enclosed spaces, stores to be clear, […]

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No Scents, Nonsense

Coronavirus Disease 2019? We Don’t Have Much Time So Call Me Covid-19 for Short News from a few days ago alarmed me until I thought it through. In June 2017 at the Fayetteville Farmers Market, I brushed against a rosemary bush for sale and found I couldn’t smell that strong scent. I checked myself for […]

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Resilient Hombre

“Nine percent. He shouldn’t even be here, sniffing my hand and looking around, at 9 percent. He’s clinically dead.” Our vet knows that my wife and I want her to be candid. She is. At this point in the clinic visit, we’re learning that the lymphoma has progressed to where Mani the Tibetan terrier has […]

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2020 Vision in 2018

Remember Conner Eldridge? He was the Democratic opponent to Republican Sen. John Boozman in the 2016 general election. Because Republicans are hot stuff these days and it’s tough to tackle an incumbent he lost. He’s back to lawyering. There’s any number of good people like Eldridge who at least for the moment end their political […]