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OPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Impact of home
Editor's note: Mike Masterson is under the weather. The original version of this column appeared April 8, 2003.
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: About the eclipse
The long-awaited solar eclipse is upon us, beginning in Harrison about 12:35 p.m. Monday, and reaching its peak for several minutes by 1:53. It will be good to…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Immigrant invasion
A conservative original-reporting and breaking news publication founded by Tucker Carlson, a former writer for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette editorial page and…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Dog bites men
I felt like sharing a few paragraphs today on topics that struck me as interesting or relevant.
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: At what cost?
After a legislative audit investigation lasting at least five months, Arkansans may soon learn the story behind that customized, space-aged lectern initially p…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: The story of us
I'm always on the lookout for how our Arkansas stacks up in smaller ways against other states.
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Family threatened
Be careful out there, friends, even with your families.
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: ‘Backover’ deaths
We recently carried a story the about a Springdale toddler who'd wandered behind a departing car and was accidentally killed.
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Hoxie: FOIA ‘poster child’
In what's been called "the poster child" for why voters need to approve a Freedom of Information Act constitutional amendment come November, the city of Hoxie …
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: One of the herd
Editor's note: Mike Masterson is taking the day off from column-writing. The original version of this column was published Nov. 5, 2005.
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: After the cocoon
Editor's note: Mike Masterson is taking the day off. The original version of this column was published April 30, 2012.
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Justice unraveling
Imagine you and hundreds of others were convicted and sentenced to years behind bars for committing serious felonies based largely on questionable forensic fin…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Broader horizons
Editor's note: Mike Masterson is taking the day off from column-writing. The original version of this column was published in January 2003.
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Lessons from Benji
It's been some time since I've written about the exploits of Benji, our little taco terrier who nearly two years ago likely spared a savage pit bull's life by …
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: GodNods get the credit
Peter Hartstein, an 87-year-old Little Rock man, recently wrote to explain how he attributes his survival and place in life today to a series of seven interrel…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: How we vote
With November looming, where would you imagine Arkansas ranks when compared with the way the nation overall votes in national elections?
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: FOIA victory
Score yet another Freedom of Information Act courtroom victory for Fort Smith attorneys Joey McCutchen and Stephen Napurano after the West Memphis School Distr…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: A killing in Lincoln
The news teems with negativity nowadays from the economy to crime, weaponizing our political system and the ongoing dangerous border invasion. But a horror sto…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Ensuring FOI
A revolutionary effort to ensure government transparency is underway by the Arkansas Citizens for Transparency coalition that would establish a commission crea…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Making enemies
It's never wise to make enemies of long-haul truckers. That includes the beleaguered city of New York with its goofball judge and his arbitrary $350 million-pl…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
The closer I get to catching my own train to the Transcendent Beyond the more convinced I am to return to ashes by cremation rather than moldering in an expens…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Quality of life
Since childhood I've intuitively believed in the higher consciousness humans possess which allows us to conceive of an ultimate creative force responsible for …
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Care for elderly
I was a tad ashamed to see a recent national analysis ranking access and quality of care for each state's elderly citizens was missing our Arkansas as one of t…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: To define love
What better subject to explore during Valentine's Day week than the meaning of love in our lives?
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: On human love
I believe I've said this before. I'm not a psychologist, counselor or psychiatrist, simply a 77-year-old Ozarks writer whose done more than his share of living…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Spend and earn
I learned years ago from my financially astute younger brother a wise way to live in today's world was to use a credit card that paid you each time you used it…
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OPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: I’m still here
Note: This overview of my ongoing battle with cancer was written by request of the Support for People with Oral and Head and Neck Cancer organization, whose na…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: The people’s turn
Now that lawyers have had their turn debating the proposed constitutional enshrinement of the state's Freedom of Information Act back and forth for weeks, it's…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Pit bulls again
Multiple pit bulls running loose to terrorize an Indianapolis neighborhood mauled an 85-year-old pastor to death in his yard the other day after he acted to pr…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: A prize worth earning
Each year since 1917, journalists, photographers and authors of literature have competed in various categories for a highly regarded Pulitzer Prize, administer…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Illegal invasion
I seldom offer personal opinions on national politics, leaving that to veteran editorial page pundits far more well-sourced than I once was as a news reporter.…
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OPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: What’s so funny?
I'm more convinced than ever there must be a God of Safe Transit since U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg apparently decided to rid our nation's high…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: A debate over warming
If you're anything like me, you've withheld final judgment on the urgency of the global warming "crisis," especially when the Earth has a long history of clima…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Alone in the floor
In younger years my friends and I would mock the TV commercial depicting an older woman on the floor pleading, "Help! I've fallen and I can't get up!"
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: An innocent freed
Travesties created by prosecutors who convict innocent people of heinous crimes seem never-ending in our nation. One would hope any prosecutor would pursue tru…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: To protect the children
Parents fighting for the traditional family and moral foundation that built American society recently won their war with the Wyoming's Campbell County Public L…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Out of the blue
The older we become, the more we can expect to be blindsided by illness, accidents and other events that appear from out of the blue.
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: History’s mysteries
Archaeologists are continually seeking answers to history's mysteries, including those arising from the Bible.
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: A killing in Harrison
A tragedy unfolded here last month. It was one that sadly can and does occur too often across the country whenever sustained abuse and conflict arise within a …
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Becoming happy
Got enough happiness in your life nowadays? There usually are a slew of articles in the magazines this time of year about the meaning of happiness and how to a…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Lasting difference
Editor's note: Mike Masterson is taking a break from column-writing today. The original version of this column was published Jan. 19, 2010.
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Subscriber ExclusiveMASTERSON ONLINE: Unreported news of our time
The conservative Heritage Foundation emailed stories from its latest Daily Signal "Morning Bell" newsletter the other day. Below are the headlines accompanying…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: A little gratitude
When it comes to the matter of expressing genuine yet fundamental appreciation for everything others do for us, I've an observation to share in the wake of Chr…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Special delivery
There's not a more selfless period in the turning of each year than the Christmas season. For the first time in 11 months, so many thoughts turn to the needs o…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Coldest of colds
As 2023 fades into history, the last gasps of December thankfully have been relatively mild thus far across Arkansas, certainly nowhere near my most frigid win…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Freedom at last
Glynn Simmons at 71 has a special reason to believe 2024 will be his best year ever.
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Holiday films
What Christmas films will you be watching, and which one, according to a story on SciFi Pulse, is the most popular in each state?
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Americana versus urban rot
Since returning to my hometown of Harrison (population 13,069) in 2015 after years spent toiling in major U.S. cities, I've enriched my remaining existence in …
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: The true Santas
Merry Christmas, valued readers. The original version of this column was published in December 2004, but I like to offer it regularly during the Christmas seas…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: Taking a bite
When I led the investigative team at the Arizona Republic decades ago, it was common knowledge that in order to conduct business in Mexico, Americans were requ…