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"The pioneer baby might from time to time be weighed on the family steelyards, and he might not be. He would by the time he could talk have heard all manner of…
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Subscriber ExclusiveBooing from the cheap seats
I live here because Arkansas is my choice, not because I can't live anywhere else.
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Mom’s gold ring
Roger Nelson of the random-number generator EGG Project at Princeton has had years to collect evidence of a global consciousness that connects us all as indivi…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: And the band plays on
Joe Biden is another year older, and Donald Trump is as transparently ridiculous as ever.
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ON BOOKS: Warren Zevon’s ‘Philosophy’ full of essays by fans
I was staying at the Westin
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STAR PARKER: Don’t blame political operatives for candidates’ mistakes
Moderator Lester Holt kicked off the last Republican debate by asking Vivek Ramaswamy, "Why should you be the nominee and not the former president?"
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Subscriber ExclusiveGood china
I should be on the road to the Bradbury Christmas Tree Farm this morning. That's a family tradition we've been foisting upon the kids since they were born. The…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | REX NELSON: Alligators in Arkansas
Earlier this year, I wrote a column about a duck hunting trip to Grassy Lake in southwest Arkansas. I ended it by saying that "I would love to come back this s…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: $17. 5 million miscarriage of justice
"It is better 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer."--Benjamin Franklin
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: FOIA: Friend or foe?
After repeated efforts to weaken the Freedom of Information Act by specific legislators decrying, by their own admission, the "inefficiency" of recognizing cit…
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New bill needed
Farming is an inherently risky venture. Those willing to take it on find themselves borrowing enormous sums of money to operate in a wildly fluctuating economy…
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OPINION | DANA KELLEY: Education disconnect
Education can be both a deliverable (a body of knowledge and learning acquired by a student) and a system (the school facilities, bureaucracy, administration, …
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OPINION | DONALD B. NORWOOD: Breathe easier
Lung cancer can be sneaky. Individuals may write off symptoms commonly associated with other illnesses like coughing, shortness of breath or wheezing, especial…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Not in reasonable times
Amendment 33 to the state Constitution was ratified by the voters in 1942 for the surely naïve aim of keeping politics out of higher-education and prison matte…
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COLUMNIST: Give thanks, feel better
As people across the country prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, a Doris Day quote comes to mind: "Gratitude is riches and complaint is poverty."
