Editorial columns

Little Beale Street. That's the name used by Jamie McAfee, the well-known chef at Pine Bluff Country Club and one of the dreamers behind the idea of turning ...

It is telling and concerning that some faculty members with the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill wou...

The Local Journalism Sustainability Act (LJSA) was recently introduced in the U.S. House and has now been introduced in the Senate -- and will benefit every ...

Eric Adams arrives for lunch alone, no entourage or media handler. He shows me his new earring--"the first thing," he says, that Joe Biden asked to see when ...

RIP, Trade Promotion Authority. The law that allowed Congress to fast-track consideration of trade agreements expired on July 1. Trade agreements will now be...

The Legislature continues to be unhappy with the governor's office.

July 16 is an American anniversary paradox. Its event escaped popular memory long ago, and yet its subject is fodder for popular debate with each ensuing gen...

Since the new wave of race consciousness that has been sweeping our country, precipitated by the graphic video of the killing of George Floyd by police offic...

As U.S. and coalition forces withdraw from Afghanistan and the Taliban militia gains more territory, women and girls who resisted gender-based violence and f...

I am saddened by the headlines Arkansas has made nationally related to our poor rates of covid-19 vaccination and surging case numbers from the Delta variant...

Are you ready for some football? So, get vaccinated, then.

With fellow logophile Bernadette Kinlaw now gone from this newspaper's pages, it seems it falls to me to fly the Word Nerd banner alone. (By the way, best of...

I was having lunch with a Pine Bluff business leader one day when he told me that the two most important people in town were the head football coach at Pine ...

This week's trio of recipes would make an excellent summer supper served together.

There is an ol' boy I follow on Facebook. He's a man of faith.