ESI Staff
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...
ISawArkansas
Early July birthdays include the United States, Eureka Springs and us, the Eureka Springs Independent and Ozark Mountains Fun Guide. We’re not as old...
The Reel News
Pictured is Mr. Jim, son and grandkids, three generations on that trip
Beaver Tailwaters report:
This week the rainbows have been hitting the pink Fire worm...
Berryville HS grad lands security job underwater
KINGS BAY, Ga. – Petty Officer 2nd Class Andre Peden, a native of Berryville, Arkansas, serves the U.S. Navy assigned to USS West Virginia,...
Land in our Hands
King speaks out on mega prison, wind farm, and Buffalo River
“I love my rural district,” Bryan King said while taking a break from working...