My mom often bought house-label food items to keep on budget, as the quality was close enough. One item she wouldn’t skimp on was Kraft Philadelphia Cream Cheese, explaining other brands were “waxy.” I never understood that, different ones had about the same mouth feel to me, once I started buying my own groceries after […]
An Editor’s Note It’s obvious that I’m a news hound, and there’s certainly no shortage of news in FaySpRogVille (a portmanteau of Northwest Arkansas’s four main cities). Throughout the areas news media, coverage of the University of Arkansas naturally stays prominent, not only because it’s one of the largest employers of the Ozarks but simply […]
An Editor’s Note For all my love of words, I’m lousy at protest signs. Six maybe eight words is perfect. Pickets are a lot like billboards. You’re driving by, so highway ads need to be sparse for comprehension. That’s the same with demonstrations, where picketers stand on a sidewalk as cars whiz by. The No […]
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 […]
For a year, most Ivy League schools plus a few public universities like Virginia have been pressured directly by the Trump administration. For the University of Arkansas, Trump’s impact has been serious but less direct – mainly threats of federal budget cuts to research, scholarship and other grants, and also re-imagining civil rights legislation to […]
Holidays and Holy Days I’d like to thank the governor, the honorable Sarah Huckabee Sanders, for giving my colleagues in Arkansas state government and me Friday off, well, outside of first-responders and the like. Holiday? Actually, that was Thursday, Christmas, making this 26th of December similar to the day after Thanksgiving. That’s Black Friday, not […]