
OPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Similar signs
Some readers may recall previous columns where I described inexplicable GodNod experiences linked to my wife Jeanetta.
Some readers may recall previous columns where I described inexplicable GodNod experiences linked to my wife Jeanetta.
Jeanetta came in the other day fuming about the same thing I've noticed lately: The number of angry and hateful people appears to be rapidly expanding.
With Thanksgiving 2023 behind us, our thoughts are focused on the weeks remaining until Christmas. Our home is already fully (and I do mean fully) decked out i…
Editor's note: The original version of this column was published in April 2002.
Roger Nelson of the random-number generator EGG Project at Princeton has had years to collect evidence of a global consciousness that connects us all as indivi…
"It is better 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer."--Benjamin Franklin
Philosopher Joseph Campbell advised those of us seeking fulfillment to seek our bliss. I can testify that his advice also applies to dogs.
In a few days, as we do each November, Americans will join in offering gratitude for things often taken for granted that have made their lives better.
My late friend Sheridan Garrison of Harrison suffered from Parkinson's disease in the final period of his life, as have other friends over the years. It was sa…
"In order to see birds it is necessary to become part of the silence."
At least four preschool or elementary-aged children have been killed of late by pit bulls or pit mixes, including 4-year-old Colton Kline, who was mauled by th…
I bring further word from the Internet this morning, valued readers. I should say it's yet another warning. The scammers are as active as ever and constantly c…
Years ago I wrote about watching the last remaining leaf break free from the top of its towering tree. This is an edited version of that column which, while or…
While some unexplained events in our lives are major physical events I know as GodNods, for others they are deeply personal spiritual experiences, yet just as …
An Arkansas LLC's exploratory idea to change the designation of our half-century-old Buffalo National River into a national park and preserve to promote "the b…
If there is a home anywhere in Arkansas (maybe the country) with more Halloween decorations than ours, I'd be, well let's just say beyond flabbergasted.
Unlike some Ivy League Schools such as Harvard and Columbia, Chancellor Ray Rodrigues of Florida's 12-university system wants the Florida chapters of Students …
I realize I occasionally rant about how many motorists I see who somehow can't manage to keep their driver's side wheels on the right side of the highway's cen…
As our years of sharing life with Benji, the 12-pound taco terrier pound pup, have ticked away, I've found taking the time to study his behavior has actually b…
The school board in West Memphis could have used several classes in understanding and following our state's Freedom of Information Act. That might have saved i…
We have a neighbor with a windowless panel van equipped with a wall of cages she says she uses each week to travel to northern and eastern states where she del…
Editor's note: Mike Masterson is taking the day off. The original version of this column was published Dec. 18, 2010.
A coalition of Arkansas transparency advocates from different political affiliations have been working to strengthen, clarify and protect the Arkansas Freedom …
The first thing all of us who survived boot camp endured with each dawn was making our bunks to rigid specifications. The sheets had to be folded just right, b…
I was at my laptop writing a response to a reader the other day when I looked over at our Alexa and couldn't recall her name I'd called more times than I can …
It's difficult for me to believe the president would keep two German shepherds in our White House that enjoyed biting those employed there.
It's difficult to believe those tiny Lone Star ticks we've regularly picked off ourselves after spending time in the grass and weeds can be as dangerous in the…
The people of Arkansas have been forced by their state government's repeated attempts to disassemble our state's 1967 Freedom of Information Act to try to stre…
I reassure readers that I'll not be dissuaded from continuing to write about people and their gentle pets being maimed and killed by dangerous unrestrained lar…
About 24 years ago, an idea began to percolate in Bob Barringer's brain. Isn't that how all great visions begin?
I awoke the other day thinking of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's decree last week that senators could dress on the Senate floor like garage mechanics,…
I’ve given up hoping to compete with Jeanetta for our taco terrier Benji’s adoration. I’ll forever just be his best buddy who pets and showers him with “good b…
A Jonesboro couple who accused conservative local public school teachers Nancy Best and Cindi Talbot of treasonous and criminal behavior (along with much more)…
After public outrage following a series of savage and sometimes fatal attacks, American XL bully dogs bred from pit bulls soon will be banned in the United Kin…
The rushed "emergency" attempt by members of our Republican-led Legislature last week to demolish much of the state's venerable Freedom of Information Act of 1…
It doesn't take many stories like this to make me wonder about studies that flow from so-called experts. And that's a shame.
Mary Barren, who lives in the Hillsborough area of west Little Rock, decided to take a walk through her neighborhood one pleasant evening a while back, somethi…
I'll begin this morning by emphasizing that I'm a strong supporter of police and the men and women who put their lives on the line every day to enforce our law…
Editor's note: Mike Masterson is taking the day off. The original version of this column was published Nov. 01, 2014.
My favorite FOIA attorney "bulldog" Joey McCutchen of Fort Smith recently penned an opinion piece for Talk Business and Politics. With their permission, I'm sh…
Daughter Anna turned 46 last week after a difficult and troublesome life during her high-hormone teenage years. After dropping out of high school and having a …
There's a chance in the not-too-distant future, if you're hanging around a major Southern city or on the open highway one evening, you'll happen across a mile-…
Jeane Bennett of Blytheville went into her backyard on June 3 about 6:15 p.m., just as she had done countless times over the decades.
After watching a story last week about the mysterious crash of Trans World Airlines Flight 800 27 years ago and recalling my brother's strange and detailed dre…
I heard from a slew of voices statewide about my recent column about a Pulaski County court awarding Marcus and Jo Ann Higgins of Maumelle $1.2 million after h…
A First Amendment dispute between the Marion County Record weekly newspaper in the small community of Marion, Kan., and its police chief who raided the paper's…
A Maumelle man learned how expensive it can be to set his pit bull mixes free to maim a neighbor and kill the family's beloved Jack Russell terrier mix.
Mayors and city councils alike across our state should take heed of a First Amendment lawsuit resolved in Paragould recently. It's illegal for city government …
Editor's note: Mike Masterson is taking the day off. The original version of this column was published Nov. 23, 1014.
Some of my favorite restaurant chains have either cut back or shuttered many of their locations over the past three years thanks to the covid pandemic and bad …