ESI Staff
Bruce Lee Spillman Oct. 10, 1046 – July 5, 2025
On July 5, 2025, Bruce Lee Spillman left his earthly abode and entered into eternity. He was born on October 10, 1946, in Joplin,...
Land in our Hands
Architecture speaks of a time and place. Preservation maintains it.
“I spent thirty years in construction, I’m not a politician.” Eureka Springs Building Inspector Paul...
The Coffee Table
The Art of Buying Wine
My daughter and I were in Michigan last week. While there, we went to Walmart. It just called to us. You...
Hall Closets
Lofty Expectations and Dreams of Conference Dubs
Now that college baseball is finally in the rearview mirror, it is time to fully turn our attention...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
Water. We’re soothed by it even knowing it’s wild and unpredictable. We corral it with dams and plastic bottles, but it still wiggles and...
American Insights
Words Worth Remembering: Woodhull’s Stand
Ready to make history, Victoria Woodhull strode confidently into the Capitol on Wednesday, January 11, 1871, leading what the New...
The Dirt on Nicky
July says
It’s the middle of July (how’d that happen?) so we climb out of bed, scratch where the chiggers were and plan the day....
The Reel News
Pictured (l-r) are local guides Robert Kennedy, Xieng Chanthavong and Austin Kennedy with some Beaver Lake walleye.
Beaver Tailwaters report:
If you’re looking for a place...
Esoteric Astrology as news for week July 16 – 22, 2025
Saturn & Mercury Retrograde –
All things in the heavens are, like an inverted mirror, reflected on Earth. This is the meaning of the...
Is there life after TV news?
Yes, as it turns out. And it can be a happily productive one. Just ask former ABC television journalist and correspondent, Erin Hayes, now...