OPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: The master of her fate
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 …
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 …
Editor's note: Mike Masterson is taking the day off. The original version of this column was published Dec. 28, 2013.
I liked Lou Ann Moles from the day I met her as a sophomore at Harrison High School.
It took 66 years, but I've lived long enough to have my mid-1950s experience validated, and under oath.
This was bound to happen when children and young people are either subject to the misguided decisions of their parents or are too young to understand the possi…
If you're anything like us, you enjoy binge-watching an entertaining television series through a streaming service. I'm sure our age has a lot to do with our p…
Most of us know we can suffer for a lifetime with Lyme Disease after being bitten once by an infected tick.
An insistent reader is $5 poorer today after betting me our founding documents made no reference to faith or God.
Ever wonder how we separate truth from untruth in this troubled society? How do we know the sky is blue and clouds are white without looking? But what if every…
A 6-year-old Florida boy died earlier this month after being mauled by his family's pit bull mix; doctors at two hospitals had labored in vain to save him.
We packed our bags and left the Ozarks bound for UAMS in Little Rock last week where I experienced three sessions of swallow therapy with Dr. James Suen, the s…
Some readers may recall my previous column about the investigative series we published at the Arizona Republic in 1988 about how many sane elderly residents of…
It took two days, but we finally were able to purchase a couple of seats against the rear wall of the sold-out Golden Ticket theater in Harrison.
I appreciate readers who recognize the value to public transparency of our Freedom of Information Act. One recent transplant to Fayetteville from Texarkana, wh…
Attorney General Tim Griffin is bound to be be one happy fella when he learns of changes to our state's Freedom of Information Act last session. Last month Gri…
How can 47 years possibly have passed since I bid the newsroom staff at the Hot Springs Sentinel-Record farewell in the parking lot, climbed behind the wheel o…
A crisis in values and morality occurs when the practices of a society depart from long-cherished values. When there is a general acceptance of lies, rudeness,…
Editor's note: A version of this column was originally published July 28, 2013.
In following up on Attorney General Tim Griffin's recent announcement that he's appointed an informal "advisory group" to meet secretly before offering suggest…
Editor's note: The original version of this column was published Sept. 28, 2013.
The upside to having a dog is they become part of your family. In some ways, the love we experience for them as we nurture their lives is akin to what we feel …
Attorney General Tim Griffin's recent announcement that he's creating an advisory "bipartisan working group" to make suggestions to him for modernizing, updati…
There are likely none alive today with the incredible history of 93-year-old Barbara "Basia" Berner of Bella Vista, who was born in Poland and living with her …
That time of the year has rolled around again. Storms blow through on short notice, triggering erratic weather and tornado warnings, grass seems to grow two in…
News of thieves openly ransacking retail clothing stores and larger drug stores in America's big cities without being stopped or arrested in today's chaotic so…
I was able to learn many life lessons between the late teen years and becoming a good-timing grandpa.
It's May 25, 2003. Eighty-one-year-old World War II veteran Joseph Plachy straps on a backpack, grabs his walking cane and gently latches his front door for hi…
A few months back, a 71-year-old Michigan man was released from a life sentence without parole after serving decades in prison for a 1990 double murder he didn…
I unleashed torrents of feelings a while back by asking readers to share their pet peeves. It began by listing a several of my own and asking who else had some…
On Memorial Day weekend I wrote about honoring family members and veterans laid to rest in the scenic and historic Maplewood Cemetery above Harrison.
Members of the Harrison Planning Commission tossed the hot potato that was Green Digital's application for a crypto-mining conditional use permit to the City C…
Editor's note: The original version of this column was published Dec. 28, 2013.
It may sound odd to those who haven't experienced the scenic tranquility of Harrison's historic Maplewood Cemetery that its annual fall review of flaming red a…
A study of emergency department records at two Level 1 trauma medical institutions in Arkansas during 2018 found frequent dog bite injuries inflicted on childr…
If "Project X" between the city of Fort Smith and an unnamed retailer goes through, I expect taxpayers there to file a lawsuit based on violating the state's c…
The years I spent between 1980 and 1995 producing investigative stories for the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Asbury Park Press and the Arizona…
The following email arrived the other day from Wisconsin physician Dr. Laura E. Marusinec that I find definitely worth sharing with valued readers. (Bet you ne…
Wayne Mays, a former colleague at the Hot Springs Sentinel-Record and the president of Arkansas Right to Life, recently sent a copy of my feature story about a…
It sounds ghastly enough on its face, peddling human body parts from a crematorium for thousands of dollars to a collector of strange things in Pennsylvania.
"Better that 10 guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."--The Blackstone Formula
My recent column about ongoing cattle mutilations under investigation in Texas struck a chord with a number of readers. Here are a couple, slightly edited, I f…