
OPINION | REX NELSON: Christmas at Des Arc
The crowd stretches more than 100 yards outside what once was a shirt factory on the edge of my mother's hometown of Des Arc. The sun is just beginning to set …
The crowd stretches more than 100 yards outside what once was a shirt factory on the edge of my mother's hometown of Des Arc. The sun is just beginning to set …
It was Arbor Day, and a ceremony was taking place on the University of Arkansas at Monticello campus. Students planted a bur oak as dozens of people watched.
I'm standing at the front door of the Trotter House in Monticello, wishing I had spent the night at this bed-and-breakfast inn rather than at a chain motel. Op…
Earlier this year, I wrote a column about a duck hunting trip to Grassy Lake in southwest Arkansas. I ended it by saying that "I would love to come back this s…
Thanksgiving has long been my favorite holiday. It's a day to eat too much, watch football games and exchange stories with family members. It's also a day to r…
Sam Pittman is back for at least another season. It means that the athletic department at the University of Arkansas will save a lot of money. It also means th…
We've talked all year about the Big Four in Class 7A -- Fayetteville, Bryant, Conway and Bentonville.
It's a sunny Wednesday in October, the leaves are changing color, the square at Jasper is crowded with visitors, and I'm eating one of the best pizzas I've had…
Back in the summer of 2019, before the word "pandemic" was one we thought about on a daily basis, I wrote a column about a young couple trying to revitalize do…
On this week's episode, Rex sits down with Reed Green and Norm Berner of the Friends of Fourche Creek, a group dedicated to conservation and wetlands protectio…
The room was filled on a Wednesday morning last month at downtown Little Rock's Museum of Discovery. The occasion was a board meeting of the Downtown Little Ro…
I look back now and realize how silly I was to have picked Arkansas to beat Auburn. I wrote last week: "Is that win at Florida making us too confident?" The an…
It gets serious this week in high school football.
Neil Compton hailed from Bentonville, making him an outsider to the folks in Searcy and Newton counties.
At least for a few months, Bob Fisher is home.
They'll play another Battle of the Ravine in Arkadelphia on Saturday afternoon. In my family, the annual football game between Henderson State University and O…
We have a Razorback football victory to talk about for the first time in two months. Last Saturday's 39-36 win over Florida in The Swamp was a relief for Ar…
The regular season ended last Friday with several huge games across the state.
History is repeating itself in the Arkansas Ozarks. When a brave band of environmentalists began the fight decades ago to have the Buffalo River designated as …
Economic development officials in Mississippi County use the slogan "Cotton to Steel" when talking about the transformation of this northeast Arkansas county f…
This week, Rex chats with Victoria DeFrancesco Soto, dean of the Clinton School of Public Service at the University of Arkansas, about the institution's accomp…
In 1974, Mississippi County residents voted for a tax increase to pay for construction of Mississippi County Community College. The county still had a populati…
On a glorious Saturday in October, Razorback fans were able to forget all of their football woes. They could instead concentrate on basketball, treating a prac…
With just one week left in the regular season, the chalk continues to hold in high school football.
The sign on the door of the Hog Pen, which sits along the famous Blues Highway in Mississippi County, gets right to the point. "Wipe your feet please," it read…
I'm in a meeting room at the Nucor Arkansas (known locally as Nucor Hickman) steel plant in north Mississippi County. The Nucor employees gathered around the t…
I recently wrote about the Arkansas paradox: the fact that the economy seems poised to enter a golden era at the same time our politics has become poisoned wit…
Braver Angels of Arkansas isn't a large organization, but it might be the most important in a state where a new governor has imported the angry, divisive polit…
Mississippi State's 7-3 victory was the lowest-scoring conference game for any Arkansas team since a 7-0 loss to Baylor in 1966. The Hogs, now 2-6 overall and …
Once again in our high school football rankings, the overall Top 10 remains the same. The top teams in each of the six classifications are also still the same.
I often become angry when driving in the state's largest city. It's not just due to the drivers who run stoplights and speed because they know they can get awa…
In Wednesday's column, I wrote about Lake Village's Rhoda Adams, the Arkansas tamale queen who died in August at age 85. The first three restaurants inducted i…
On this week's episode, Rex sits down with Shanna Richardson, CEO of the Little Rock-based Quapaw Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America. The two discuss Sh…
The recent death of Rhoda Adams at age 85 brought back warm memories of Arkansas' tamale queen. I remember that stormy Tuesday night in the spring of 2017 when…
We wrote last week that we believed "the Hogs will find a way yet again to stay within striking distance on the road." The three-point loss at Alabama was even…
Eight weeks of the high school football season have been completed, and only three weeks remain in the regular season.
As our canoes pull away from the launch ramp at Little Rock's Interstate Park, traffic on nearby Interstate 30 can be heard. We paddle upstream on Fourche Cree…
The heart of any city is its downtown. And the heart of Arkansas is its capital city. That's what I say to anyone who asks why I often write about downtown Lit…
They call it Life Works Here. It's the branding initiative developed by the Northwest Arkansas Council to raise awareness of the region and attract talent. By …
Last week, we said this: "Things get a lot harder this week with a number of games that could be close." That turned out to be the case. But everything even…
There were no major upsets in high school football on Friday night. That means that our overall Top 10 remains the same. Things should get interesting for the …
I call it the Arkansas paradox. At a time when the state has its worst governor since Orval Faubus and an ineffective Legislature, the Arkansas economy seems p…
Michael Spivey, a Rogers native, spent almost eight years in South Africa as general counsel for Massmart, a firm that owns a number of major brands in Africa.…
Peter MacKeith, dean of the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, and Michael Blazier, the dean of the Col…
I'm in my hotel room in northwest Arkansas, reading several publications I picked up. Two things further impress on me something I already know: This region is…
It was, as the headline in this newspaper proclaimed on Sunday morning, "pretty frustrating." Texas A&M 34, Arkansas 22 in Arlington, Texas.
The game of the week last week in high school football was Fayetteville's 47-42 victory over Rogers. The win kept the Purple Dogs ranked second overall in the …
If you're a student of Arkansas political history, mark down the dates of Sept. 11-13. They might represent the first time Arkansas legislators realized that t…
Headed west out of Eureka Springs on U.S. 62, the large tower crane can be seen rising above the trees. It's the kind of crane one would expect to see in Bento…