Opinion

CAPITOL DISCUSSION

There’s an event in our nation’s past that, though catastrophic and heartbreaking, hasn’t ever received the attention it truly deserves. For Arkansans, it should be something we learn about thoroughly and feel connected to perhaps more than most of the other dates and milestones we read in textbooks and hear about from educators.
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FIRST DISTRICT

America is exceptional, and that’s something we must never forget. But for the past two years, the Biden Administration and a Democrat-led Congress have failed to keep their promises about uniting the American people and bringing in an era of quiet and competent leadership.
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People are Dying to Get in There

October was a lot of skeletons and zombies and ghosts, and it made me realize that Halloween omits an important step before the afterlife. The transition. All of these spirits were once living but now they’re dead. Fine, technically a zombie is undead. Which is a confusing. The prefix “un” means the absence of something.
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GROWING UP FLIPPIN

Last weekend I enjoyed breakfast at one of the long-time restaurants in Bull Shoals. It was a beautiful autumn day so, before going home, I drove around the town a bit and thought about visits there when I was a kid.
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October Memories

Ain’t October wonderful! It’s the best month of the year for fishing and hunting, except maybe for November and April, and possibly May and December. I once spent most of October in Canada, fishing for walleye, crappie and smallmouth, and hunting ruffed grouse and ducks and geese. We would start on the Lake of the Woods in northwest Ontario and then move over into Manitoba’s prairie pothole country where ducks and geese numbered in the millions. One October evening I caught a ten-pound walleye in Manitoba’s Red River after hunting geese all morning.
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