by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 22, 2021 | Opinion
I am a lifelong foodie, though not in the snobby gourmet sense. I just love to eat, especially when the food is tasty, and I’m not picky about where it is served. A recent week in Arkansas offered a study in contrasts. It began with a delicious dinner of hot chicken...
by Monty Self | Apr 5, 2021 | Opinion
Arkansas has become the first state to propose a bill that would prohibit health care providers from assisting minors who are seeking gender transitioning treatments. House Bill 1570, dubbed the “Arkansas Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act,” was first...
by Kevin Heifner | Feb 26, 2021 | Opinion
Arkansas, long known as “the Natural State,” is on the cusp of replacing its unofficial state nickname with a new one: “Harder to vote; easier to kill.” I’ve adapted this new moniker from a Feb. 24 tweet by Senator Jim Hendren (Arkansas – District 2), regarding...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Oct 21, 2020 | News
It is time to break silence on systemic racism, said Preston Clegg, pastor of Second Baptist Church of Little Rock, Arkansas. Referencing Martin Luther King Jr.’s April 4, 1967, speech delivered at New York City’s Riverside Church, Clegg declared, “This is a time to...
by Wendell Griffen | Jul 29, 2020 | Opinion
Slavery “was the necessary evil upon which the union was built,” U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton said in a recent interview. The July 26, 2020, issue of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette newspaper contains an article based on that interview written by that paper’s Washington, DC,...