How fake news manipulates us all

Facebook is in everyone’s life. We keep up with friends and family and explore our world through this medium. Personality tests appear all through...

War, pipelines, and climate withdrawal

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t....

Ignoring Lyme disease won’t make it go away

The Arkansas Department of Health had to be dragged kicking and screaming to reluctantly acknowledge there is Lyme disease in the state. Arkansas was...

Arkansas Senators really don’t care about people of Arkansas

Editor, I don’t even know where to start. I cannot believe that in 2017 we as a country are actually looking at a bill that...

Picking Cotton

Editor, Mr. Cotton, I watched you make a mockery of the Senate Intelligence Committee on June 13, 2017 when you pretended to interrogate Jeff Sessions....

Boozman sold us out, too

Editor, To Sen. Boozman, my sincere thanks to your webslave staffer, who sent me a prompt, although quite deceptive, form letter reply to my email...

Congressional Christianity an oxymoron?

Editor,               I do not want to sound like I am whining or ungrateful for the wonderful opportunity to live in Eureka Springs. I...

Independent Guestatorial: Survival on the Line

I am the fountain from which no one can drink. For many, I am considered a necessary link. Like gold to all I am sought for,...

Asking the right questions helps to stop Lyme in time

As I read an become aware of everyone stories about Lyme disease or tick-borne diseases (TBD) I am thankful that these people have been...

Dan the Man fan

Editor, A quick thanks to the Independent for publishing Pursuit of Happiness each week and an open love letter to Dan Krotz for writing it....