OTHERS SAY: Still too many questions
Thomas Matthew Crooks should never have been able to get on a roof fewer than 150 yards from former President Donald Trump, let alone take several shots at him…
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Subscriber ExclusiveYouth challenged
One would think that, given what's in the newspapers every day, the state could use more Youth Challenge opportunities, not fewer.
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OTHERS SAY: Collective security works, and NATO at 75 has been a success
Overshadowed by the wonderings about President Joe Biden's vigor was the actual purpose of the NATO alliance's 75th anniversary summit in Washington, D.C., las…
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Subscriber ExclusiveEDITORIAL: Old Milwaukee
Like a Grateful Dead show or Razorback game, only half the reason to go to the Republican convention is to see what's going on inside the arena. A lot of the a…
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OTHERS SAY: Assassination attempt roils a divided nation
The nation remains in shock as law enforcement officials unravel the mystery of what drove 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks to carry out an assassination atte…
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Subscriber ExclusiveEDITORIAL: First drafts
If journalism is the first draft of history, the first drafts of those first drafts might never make it to the history books--deservedly so. Because first draf…
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Subscriber ExclusiveEDITORIAL: Letter from the editors
Oh, the letters section. That's where the fun is. That's also where the critics are. As you'll note nearby, where a friend from Searcy gives us heck for not us…
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Subscriber ExclusiveEDITORIAL: Cut rate deal?
We've heard it before, but it's possible that we could finally be seeing an interest rate cut at the Fed.
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Subscriber ExclusiveEDITORIAL: Matter of inches
Only a matter of inches, and this would be a very different day, a very different America. Donald Trump swatted at his ear like a mosquito had bitten him, havi…
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Subscriber ExclusiveEDITORIAL: In the line of fire
The day after John Lennon was killed in New York, the press caught the president-elect within camera shot, and asked him--as reporters are wont to do--if the k…
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Subscriber ExclusiveEDITORIAL: Get this party started
It was disappointing that the transparency law/constitutional amendment effort didn't make it to the November ballot. As Yogi Berra once noted, even Napoleon h…
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Subscriber ExclusiveEDITORIAL: Speaking of outdoor recreation …
Arkansas is not normally thought of as a state that can pride itself on health and fitness. Maybe the state's natural assets can help in that regard.
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Subscriber ExclusiveEDITORIAL: Three Mile Island
To folks of a certain age--and that age gets older every year--saying the words "Three Mile Island" still stirs feelings of anxiety and trepidation. Gather 'ro…
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Landslides can start small
The Labour Party's demolition of the chaotic Conservative Party in Britain's July 4 general election is another marker of the re-assertion of sensible, fiscall…
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Subscriber ExclusiveEDITORIAL: Untenable
"I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president did I think she was not qualified to be president."