Editorials
British statesman George Savile once said that men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen. That is, in a law and order society...
October 21, 2021Some weeks ago, dozens of families in southern Arkansas were given the happy news: They could transfer their kids out of failing school districts into other ...
October 21, 2021The CDC reports that 35 percent of adult Arkansans--one out of three--live with developmental disabilities, which is nearly 10 percent higher than the nation...
by JON TAYLOR SPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE October 21, 2021Every good or arguable reason for Little Rock's historically progressive public school supporters to oppose a school debt millage extension--not a debt milla...
by John Brummett October 21, 2021The news of Colin Powell's death had hardly been announced before the foil-hatted anti-vaxxers started pointing to his passing as "proof" that vaccines are u...
October 21, 2021There was a time, back in the 1980s, when young officers in the United States military cheered as one of their own made the big time. Colin Powell had been n...
October 20, 2021If it's October, that must mean it's time for me to talk about fear again. Not goblins and ghouls or other Halloween-y things, but about those things so many...
by Brenda Looper October 20, 2021The annual awards ceremony for the Arkansas Press Association was a virtual affair this year due to the pandemic, but I couldn't say "no" to APA executive di...
by Rex Nelson October 20, 2021The governor has been considering a special legislative session to reduce the personal income tax rate from 5.9 percent to 5.5 percent, or more.
October 20, 2021The Biden administration proposes to raise money to pay for its big "social infrastructure" bill in part by requiring banks to send the Internal Revenue Serv...
by John Brummett October 20, 2021Gov. Asa Hutchinson will come out for his regular covid briefing this afternoon and likely say the numbers are a little better but we all really need to get ...
by John Brummett October 19, 2021I feel certain most of those reading have observed the unmistakable evaporation of common sense across the fruited plain.
by Mike Masterson October 19, 2021That was one of the many ways this administration managed to open the flood gates to illegal immigrants since January. Not every message was Come To America,...
October 19, 2021For well over a decade the issue of prescription drug costs in the USA has been a major issue for retirees and the public at large.
October 19, 2021Some random observations on our continuing theater of the absurd:
by Bradley Gitz October 18, 2021