ESI Staff
This Week’s Independent Thinker
American farmers are caught in awkward and challenging disruptions: labor shortages; higher operating costs that require additional loans; tariffs; erratic and extreme weather; cuts...
CAPC accounts for 2025
The final 2025 meeting for the CAPC on Dec. 18 mostly concerned reports from Finance Director Ty Reed and Tourism Director Mike Maloney.
Reed reported...
County bestows praises and raises
The final quorum court meeting of 2025, held on Dec. 16, featured a series of resolutions and some year-end ordinances. The meeting ended with...
The past is a present Part 1
Since 2015, fans of the Ozark Mountains Fun Guide have enjoyed the fruits of Rebecca Becker’s research into the remarkable lives of the young...
From the Back Porch
I’ve heard that timing is everything and sometimes I know exactly what that means.
In this morning’s mail a package that could only have been...
The Coffee Table
Give Snow a Chance
When I left Arkansas for the west coast of Michigan, where the snows are deep and winter storms are plentiful, some...
Hall Closets
The 2025 version of the Gregorian Calendar turned and burned its 12th and final page of daze last week under an eerily-warm-weathered sky in...
The Reel News
Pictured is Mary from Texarkana with this very nice rainbow trout, caught with Busch Mountain Fishing Guide Service.
Beaver Tailwaters:
Welcome to 2026! I hope you...
The Dirt on Nicky
How to plan
I threw away the old calendar. Good riddance! Time to plan the best garden year ever in the history of ever, so...
Esoteric Astrology as news for week January 7 – 13, 2026
Interior Moment in Time for Humanity
Winter and the New Year of 2026. It is a deep interior moment for humanity at this time....