ESI Staff
Vaccines arrive as new cases soar
Arkansas started out the new year with a record-breaking 4,304 new cases of Covid-19, nearly double the recent daily average, and accompanied by record...
QC shuffles meeting schedule
State law requires quorum courts to meet at the start of the year to set meeting time and dates for the coming year. That...
Antibody treatment can reduce severity for some
Coming down with Covid-19 can be frightening, but there is monoclonal antibody treatment now available that, when administered within 10 days of becoming ill,...
TheCoffeeTable
Predictions and other guesses
It’s stupid to think opening a new calendar will magically create change in our world. Likewise, no one should expect that...
ISawArkansas
Newspapers got smacked right in the kisser during 2020. Due to submicroscopic infectors that took up residence in human cells all over the world,...
The road to 2030
Corruption, pollution, and crimes against nature
At the worst time in history, diverse interests are increasing the climate emergency by prematurely shutting down the remaining...
Wilson gets out of going to court
For the past 22 years as circuit clerk, Ramona Wilson has worked from an office measuring 6x11 ft., and from that cramped closet she...
Constables on Patrols
Dec. 28
10:48 a.m. – Officer went to a residence to take a theft report.
2:40 p.m. – A suspicious male on Spring St. was contacted...
The Nature of Eureka
From Holly to Hollywood
One of my favorite Arkansas native plants, yaupon holly, which occurs in all counties in southwest Arkansas, evolved in the Ouachita...
Protest draws ABC scrutiny
Ann Kavanagh, owner of T&A Legends Saloon on US 62, said an event at the bar that started at 11:01 p.m. New Year’s Eve...