Editorials
The present covid-19 situation in Arkansas is an accelerating crisis. Our state is in the top three in covid case increases. We are the third lowest in the n...
by HARMON R. SEAWEL SPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE - July 29, 2021I just read Sarah Huckabee Sanders' guest column in the Sunday Democrat-Gazette, in which Ms. Sanders gives credit for the available vaccines against covid-1...
July 29, 2021They don't speak, or at least they don't speak loudly. They might only whisper. Which is why so many of us only get word of the PRO Act in Congress after it ...
July 28, 2021Can conservatives be flexible? Of course. They just need a little time to stretch and limber up. It might take a few years, but eventually a graceful conserv...
July 28, 2021Summertime, and the livin' is . . . steamy. Sweltering temperatures have many of us retreating to air-conditioned comfort, changing our clothes and sipping c...
by LINDSAY POLLARD-POST Tribune news service - July 28, 2021It's been a long while since I've watched the Olympics.
by Brenda Looper - July 28, 2021Doug White, president and general manager of the Arkansas Livestock Show Association, shakes his head as he describes his decision to cancel that great tradi...
by Rex Nelson - July 28, 2021Imagine if you were a fully clothed adult, sitting in a field with several naked infants sitting to your left and right.
July 28, 2021Gov. Asa Hutchinson and the state's epidemiologist got shouted at Monday at a covid town-hall meeting in Mountain Home.
by John Brummett - July 28, 2021Surely by now, everyone has noticed those in today's America who seek to further divide us to enhance their own political power and erase our constitutional ...
by Mike Masterson - July 27, 2021Sarah Huckabee Sanders explained to Fox News the other day that more people would get vaccinated against covid if the Democrats would kneel before her cult l...
by John Brummett - July 27, 2021Sen. Trent Garner, R-El Dorado, was the principal sponsor of Senate Bill 590, which is now Act 1002 of 2021 and is scheduled to take effect Wednesday, passed...
July 27, 2021NPR had a story last week on folks who grow crops under the cover of forests in Missouri. (Right now our cantelopes wish they had tree cover.) And the story ...
July 27, 2021Confession: I'm in favor of "voter suppression." Not by the government, but by the weather.
by Bradley Gitz - July 26, 2021Tuesday marks the 68th anniversary of the armistice that ended major hostilities on the Korean peninsula. The Korean War isn't technically over. Some 30,000 ...
by PRESTON JONES SPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE - July 26, 2021