Opinion

A New Year rings in and the COVID pandemic is still with us. Pandemic fatigue is understandable at this point.  But the loss of more than 824,000 Americans to date and the arrival of a new, more transmissible variant, should…

Two careers ago, shortly after I began my time in newspapers, fresh-faced and blissfully unaware of the industry’s encroaching doom, I learned about the most dreaded day in the sports calendar.  It’s the day after the MLB All-Star game, when…

I don’t know if y’all have run across this, but there’s a bit of self-help wisdom often passed around on the internet asserting that happiness grows in direct proportion to acceptance and inverse to expectations.  In other words, when expectations…

The year 2021 will not go down as the greatest season in Arkansas football history. But, by golly, it will be remembered as one of the most impressive. Arkansas capped an improbable regular season with a 34-17 win over Missouri…

The idiom, “full circle,” the internet says, probably originated with Shakespeare, which might help explain why I had to wonder about its origin. (In high school, I tended to zone out when we got around to Shakespeare, relying on my…

I was in fourth grade when I had my heart broken for the first time.  The little girl I had a crush on returned the very cool, multi-colored watch I had given her as a token of our partnership and…

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, medical providers are discovering new tools to battle the deadly virus. One of these tools is monoclonal antibodies, also known as mAbs. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted emergency use authorization (EUA) of two monoclonal antibody treatments…

Saturday, Nov. 27 is Small Business Saturday – a day to celebrate and support small businesses and all they do for their communities. This year, we know that small businesses need our support now more than ever as they navigate, retool and…

More shoppers turn to online retail to fulfill Christmas wish lists and fill stockings. As we search for gifts to give loved ones this holiday season it’s important to safeguard our information so we can protect our personal data from…

‘Tis the season for gratitude, so let’s enumerate some of Arkansas fans’ reasons to be thankful. Sam Pittman. What else can I say? They don’t come much better than this one. Sometimes you just get lucky. Sometimes the right person…