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Supreme Court rules on health care
Columns Comments Updated: Jul 04, 2012 4:47pmIn a historic decision anticipated for months and impacting hundreds of millions of Americans, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday, June 28, that the individual mandate – the cornerstone of the...
Thinking of health care
Columns Comments Updated: Jul 04, 2012 4:35pmThe Supreme Court has ruled the Affordable Care Act is the law of the land, and of course everybody knows if that’s good or bad.
I wish I had that kind of certainty about how to rearrange...
Why I’m pro-nun in this conflict
Columns Comments Updated: Jul 05, 2012 2:00pmWhy I’m pro-nun in this conflict
Sister Louise Kearns joined the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in 1959. In 1969, she and her fellow sisters ditched the convent and moved into the D Street...
Hogs want more meat
Columns Comments Jul 04, 2012 3:48pmFAYETTEVILLE — Dave Van Horn likes a good steak.
The Arkansas baseball coach said as much in the hallway underneath TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha last Friday. His team’s season had just ended...
Some old wildlife disappears but new variteties arrive
Columns Comments Updated: Jul 04, 2012 3:38pmArkansas has wildlife varieties — animals, birds and fish — today that weren’t around a hundred years ago. And we are missing some species today that were here in 1912.
Nature is full of...
Lessons to be learned from living alone
Columns Comments Updated: Jul 04, 2012 2:44pmFor the past week my roommate has been abroad visiting her sister. During this seven-day span, which is the first time I’ve ever lived alone, I have learned a lot — the most important of which is...
Ten killers manage to delay justice again
Columns Comments Updated: Jul 04, 2012 2:31pmArkansas can continue to sentence killers to death, but can’t execute them, thanks to a 5-2 state Supreme Court ruling Friday that declared the Arkansas Method of Execution Act was...
Baptists vote shows break from the past
Columns Comments Updated: Jul 04, 2012 2:23pmTwo men made the news this week, both of whom said the right thing when it mattered most: one after being in the wrong place at the wrong time, one while being in the right place at the right time...
A lot of talk to fill radio air
Columns Comments Updated: Jul 04, 2012 1:16pmLITTLE ROCK — The summer lull in Arkansas sports is in full bloom. The next Razorback football coach has been done to death. It will be more than a month before some anticipated freshman football...
Color can be key to crappie jig success
Columns Comments Updated: Jul 04, 2012 12:54pmHang around a crappie fisherman or two for just a little while and the subject of jig colors will arise.
What is the best crappie jig color? What color catches the biggest crappie? What...
