OPINION | BRENDA LOOPER: Still grateful
It's been a rough few years for me, with the deaths of loved ones, huge unexpected expenses that sapped my savings, and creeping depression and anxiety. Still,…
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OPINION | BRENDA LOOPER: AI’ll be back
Every so often, I feel like I'm living in the "Terminator" universe. Not so much because life is grim (and no, I don't believe unstoppable cyborgs are after me…
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OPINION | BRENDA LOOPER: Losing Corey
Two years ago Sunday, I lost my first best friend. My brother Corey was the closest to my age, and I spent probably the first two years of my life being his sh…
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OPINION | BRENDA LOOPER: Threads of hope
After last week's column about jerks, I feel the need to talk about something good on social media. Mark Zuckerberg/Meta actually did something I like.
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OPINION | BRENDA LOOPER: Don’t be a jerk
It used to be a safe assumption that pretty much everyone's default setting was "kind" and "polite," except for those people who had hatred and malice seeping …
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OPINION | BRENDA LOOPER: Word to the nerd
With an actual chill in the air, I can finally say it's autumn, which is one of my favorite times of year, and not just because of the leaves turning and it be…
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OPINION | BRENDA LOOPER: Engineered to fail
There are people who will never be happy with anything this or any other responsible newspaper does, and a comment on last week's column was indicative of why.
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OPINION | BRENDA LOOPER: We need news
When I was growing up about 20 miles south of Fort Smith, I had multiple newspapers to choose from: the daily Southwest Times Record, plus the weekly Mansfield…
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OPINION | BRENDA LOOPER: Role of the troll
It's hard sometimes to understand the people who are perpetually ticked off by ... well, let's be honest ... anything that doesn't fit their worldview and/or m…
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OPINION | BRENDA LOOPER: A better world
Sometimes you just need a reminder of what life is, or should be, about.
