Editorials
On Friday nights each fall, I host a high school football scoreboard show that airs on more than 50 radio stations across the state. As I sit in a studio in ...
by Rex Nelson October 23, 2021Denial isn't just a river in Africa.
by CORALIE KOONCE SPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE October 23, 2021I am writing this letter hoping that the news about what is happening to our country can be believed. If so, my question is why. Why would any person, group ...
October 23, 2021I read an article recently that said those of us born between 1925 and 1955 are said in many ways to have grown up in the best years of this planet.
by Mike Masterson October 23, 2021The National Guard can make things better during a man-made disaster, too. Your neighbors in (part-time) uniform aren't limited to patching things up after h...
October 22, 2021For the last year, we've been writing in this column that the Biden administration is making matters worse on the southern border by sending mixed messages t...
October 22, 2021NBC News recently kicked off a story about inflation, the supply chain, and the John Deere strike by visiting an auction house in Iowa. The lede: A slightly ...
October 22, 2021Polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, are a class of man-made chemicals that break down slowly in the environment, can accumulate in the hu...
by The Los Angeles Times October 22, 2021It's time to come clean. I have a record.
by ARTHUR PAUL BOWEN SPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE October 22, 2021Last week, Sen. Tom Cotton used the term "surveillance scheme" to describe the proposed expansion of IRS access to aggregate bank activity over $600. His pol...
by Dana Kelley October 22, 2021A Sept. 9 Democrat-Gazette headline read, "Monument group will name donors." Nothing could be further from the truth.
by TRAVIS STORY, BRIAN KELSEY AND DANIEL SUHR SPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE October 22, 2021Sen. Tom Cotton and his idolized would-be autocrat remind many of us old veterans of the rooster that's sure the sun rises just to hear him crow.
October 22, 2021British 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, 2021