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Some can’t tell the difference
Columns Comments Nov 21, 2012 6:01amRarely does U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., offer a political opinion with which I agree, but in a Nov. 5 interview with Politico, he couldn’t have been more on target.
“If I hear...
Remembering veterans
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Remembering veterans
Diane Hall, a member of the Clinton chapter of the Maria Van Buren Daughters of the American Revolution, places flowers and flags at the Courthouse...
Scientifically measuring criminal man
Columns Comments Oct 23, 2012 10:44pmPBS recently broadcast a superlative episode of the series, NOVA Science Now. The title of the episode was “Can Science Stop Crimes?” Host David Pogue, took viewers through the work of leading...
Commonsense Commentary — Time to exercise your birthright — vote
Columns Comments Oct 23, 2012 8:58pm“Going to the polls and voting is one of the most important birth rights we have as citizens of this country.” Mike Roark, Russellville Courier editor, Oct. 7, 2012
The year was 1781....
Shale a divisive issue for Arkansans
Columns Comments Aug 06, 2012 8:31pmIf you live in a part of the state not affected by the Fayetteville Shale Play, be thankful — not because of the issues surrounding the process of extracting natural gas from underground, but...
Sobol offered refuge for ‘nerds’
Columns Comments Aug 06, 2012 8:29pmA few days ago I had the pleasure of speaking to a group of local prison inmates. The men were recent graduates of a program designed to help them make better and more informed life choices. This...
Ballot proposals may be fatally flawed
Columns Comments Aug 06, 2012 8:27pmLooks like some blowhard pundit completely misread the situation when it came to voter-initiated ballot proposals for casinos, medical marijuana and raising the severance tax – the blowhard pundit...
Politicians love to bash but need media
Columns Comments Aug 03, 2012 10:22pmThe worst-kept secret in our nation’s capital leaked out this week, albeit in a roundabout way.
The anecdotal proof came when several political reporters acknowledged that they let sources...
Finding a flaw is hard to do
Columns Comments Aug 03, 2012 10:17pmDr. Mark Miller has not fixed the country’s health care system from his solo family practice in Fayetteville. But he may have come up with part of the solution.
For the past 18 months, he’s...
Defending stones
Columns Comments Jul 17, 2012 6:48pmBefore heeding the call of criminal justice, I was a landscape architect. While in architecture school, I learned there is little (from an aesthetic point of view) worse than a design that almost...