Editorials
The ink wasn't even dry on the page when another mass shooting happened in a neighboring state. Philip Martin says he wrote those lines before the news had pas…
March 30, 2023Historian Arnold Toynbee observed "an autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide."
by Star Parker March 30, 2023SACRAMENTO, Calif.--Gov. Gavin Newsom came close but couldn't quite bring himself to say it: The drought's over.
by George Skelton The Los Angeles Times March 30, 2023In an age where "power to the people" has become a rallying cry for democracy, the ongoing erosion of individual rights and liberties is a pressing concern. Wh…
by Holly Dickson Special to the Democrat-Gazette March 30, 2023It's a legitimately arguable need, meaning Republicans' vast new prison so that we can enforce a new law declaring that a serious felon must serve every day of…
by John Brummett March 30, 2023The recent efforts by Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Senate sponsor Ben Gilmore, and House sponsor Jimmy Gazaway and the attorney general's office led b…
by Christopher S. Dickie Special to the Democrat-Gazette March 30, 2023Where the shame lies
March 30, 2023The Boil, now called The Boil 777, has made a successful transition from a food truck into its storefront operation at 300 River Market Ave., Suite J, Little R…
by Eric E. Harrison March 30, 2023Spend from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday at Hot Springs’ legendary Vapors Live for the BBQ & Blues Brunch, barbecue, blues and booze featuring the music of Greg “Bi…
by Jack W. Hill March 30, 2023Groucho Marx once said that politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it all over, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies. The ma…
March 29, 2023The secular and cynical find it difficult to believe not only that "God governs in the affairs of men," as Benjamin Franklin said, but that He would visit a sm…
by Cal Thomas March 29, 2023I recently adopted a rabbit. Olaf had been passed from shelter to shelter for more than a year. He has holes in his ears and eyelids from a severe mite infesta…
by Donna Albergotti Tribune News Service March 29, 2023Despite living out in the country south of Fort Smith for the first 19 years of my life, I've never had much of a Southern accent. That came in handy for what …
by Brenda Looper March 29, 2023I enjoy driving the rural roads of southeast Arkansas, a historic region that has been losing population for decades. It's quiet here, and I find solace on the…
by Rex Nelson March 29, 2023On Vietnam Veterans
March 29, 2023