President Joe Biden comes into office with a razor-thin, 10-seat majority in the House of Representatives and an even 50-50 tie in the Senate. Many of his allies in the Democratic Party are encouraging him to implement sweeping policy initiatives that will push our country further to the lef…

On Feb. 6, 1911, Dutch was born in an apartment above a bank in Tampico, Illinois.

A presidential election has come and almost gone, and the two major party candidates have not campaigned in Arkansas or given the state much thought. President Trump is assured of winning here, so both candidates placed it in his column and forgot about it.

With so many Arkansans already voting, is it too late for a column about the three proposed constitutional amendments that were submitted by legislators? For those who haven’t voted, here’s a fair and balanced review, with a bone to pick at the end.

Let’s look at the bright side in this year filled with hardship, sorrow and acrimony. People are voting peacefully in high numbers, while two candidates in Utah are showing it’s still possible to treat an opponent – and the process – with respect.

The votes have yet to be counted in the 2020 elections, but in Arkansas, the 2022 campaign has already started.

Arkansas state legislators are proposing a constitutional amendment that would make it harder for citizens to pass constitutional amendments in the future. And yes, the process is broken. The question is, will this fix it?

Gov. Asa Hutchinson has shared a lot of numbers with the state since the beginning of March – many of them grim ones. I’m sure he much preferred sharing these Wednesday: 69 percent and 18 percent.

Things don’t ever stay the same. The world is always changing, and most of the time it is for the better.

Arkansas Sens. John Boozman and Tom Cotton and other Republicans probably should have said something like the following in 2016:

An interesting thing happened to Sen. Tom Cotton on his way to the 2024 presidential campaign: President Trump included him Wednesday on his not-very-short lis

Just as important as Election Day is what almost always happens on Election Night: The loser bravely congratulates the winner and accepts the people’s will, the winner congratulates the loser on a hard-fought campaign, and the rest of us turn off the TV, go to bed and continue going about ou…

The Arkansas Constitution says that “the people reserve to themselves the power to propose legislative measures, laws and amendments.” That may be so, but the people had better dot every “i” to satisfy the Arkansas Supreme Court, even if those “i’s” can’t be dotted.

Take all the popular items you like in the VW Atlas, shave off third row seating and you have the new VW Atlas Cross Sport, an SUV with loads of cargo space and geared for light off-roading too.

The whole country is anxiously awaiting a coronavirus vaccination. Once it arrives, our nation faces a challenge – how to make sure everyone gets inoculated. Although many people do not realize it, most vaccinations are not 100 percent effective. A vaccination may only protect 97 out of 100 …

Gov. Asa Hutchinson decided he wasn’t busy enough dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, so he’s added to his plate a hate crimes law he’s trying to pass in his last regular legislative session next year.

James Nichols walked into Nashville School District Superintendent Doug Graham’s office wearing a cloth mask and then kept it on, despite everyone in the room except me having already been sick and recovered, mostly, from COVID-19.

At about 9:30 p.m. July 27, 1975, 33-year-old bank teller Mennie Person was walking by a car dealership called Madison Cadillac when she spotted a unique, custom-made, Cadillac parked on the lot. She and her husband, Troy, were Cadillac fans. They owned a 1974 model and were familiar with th…

Republicans versus Democrats. Conservatives versus liberals. Red states versus blue states. The chasms separating us are vast. We can’t agree on anything.

When will this covid-19 pandemic end? No one can know for certain, but one public health expert, Dr. David Katz, said last week that we’ll enter a new phase with far fewer cases in “something like another four to eight weeks.” Meanwhile, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has be…

Kevin Hunt and Ryan Norris come from two very different places, but their partnership could lead to important police and criminal justice reforms when the Arkansas Legislature meets next year.

While many Arkansas school districts are asking families to decide between bringing their children to school or keeping them home to start the school year, Hot Springs Lakeside is taking a different approach: maximum flexibility.

Public figures including the governor and the University of Arkansas athletic director must be careful about the words they say. But you can still learn a lot by listening to them.

One of the most important potential reforms in Arkansas politics could have been stopped dead in its tracks Monday because a truck driver had to attend a class.

Gov. Asa Hutchinson started his Wednesday press conference with a football in one hand and a mask in the other. His message was clear. You want the first? Wear the second.

Doctors are getting better at treating the coronavirus. For instance, they found that a generic steroid can save some people on ventilators and that a drug originally developed to treat Hepatitis C can speed up recovery times. While doctors have had some success, they have only been able to …

An Arkansas poll’s results weren’t quite jaw-dropping but at least were eyebrow-raising because they showed, first, the presidential race is virtually tied here, and second, that Sen. Tom Cotton is not as popular as everyone, including Democrats, thought he would be.

Should the president “send in the troops” to quell the civil unrest occurring in parts of the nation? That’s what Sen. Tom Cotton says should happen. The secretary of defense, assuming he still has his job when you read this, says no. And Gov. Asa Hutchinson says not in Arkansas, which is hi…

U.S. Rep. French Hill is part of the five-member Congressional Oversight Commission overseeing $500 billion in taxpayer-financed coronavirus-related loans, but a chairman hasn’t been appointed yet. That means it has no budget or staff, so when a legally required first report was due, Hill en…

Remember the unofficial, private motto of then-Gov. Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign: “It’s the economy, stupid”? That’s the obvious reason Gov. Asa Hutchinson and others are reopening the state and the nation.

How much does it cost to send a child to public school in Arkansas each year? According to the U.S. Census Bureau, an average of $10,139.

Even with all that’s going on, let’s not ignore the news that on Monday, the U.S. Treasury Department announced that the government will borrow $3 trillion from April to June to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s equal to more than $9,000 for every American.

Gov. Asa Hutchinson is an analytical thinker who in another life might have been an engineer using data, numbers and science to build a bridge across a divide.

Arkansas public schools have been “flying the plane while we were building it” as Elkins Superintendent Jeremy Mangrum described it.

I am not an expert in food production and distribution, so if I write, “The food supply chain is breaking,” you should not take that too seriously.