Thanking veterans

Editor, Reflecting back on this past Memorial Day, I found it’s become very trendy and popular these days for people to walk up to a...

Test it. Stop it.

Editor, It’s crappy that a mass-feeding confinement factory like C&H Farms is operating on the Buffalo River National Park watershed. C&H is part of a larger international...

Just shut it down

Editor, I tried to call Governor Asa Hutchinson’s office and was shuffled off to the voicemail of the person in charge of veteran’s affairs, who...

Sidewalks a hazard

Editor, Within the last few weeks just driving through town I have witnessed 4 (yes 4) people, mostly older, who have fallen on sidewalks downtown. Am...

Preserving Butler Hollow

“The forest calls the rain, here it comes again putting out the flames, soothing all this burning” – S. Porter Many people in the Ozarks...

Independent Guestatorial: Ridding Northwest Arkansas of rats

We feel sympathy for Gov. Asa Hutchinson whose private office next to the Governor’s Mansion has suffered a rat infestation so bad the governor...

What you can do to prepare

Editor, I thank the Independent and Dr. John House for the recent 4-part series on the State of the World and the threats we face...

Accepting differences

Editor, OMG! I can’t believe that the great bathroom controversy is once again at center stage. In my lifetime, whenever there is a point-of-law dialogue...

Public right to know

Editor, Thank you for exposing Marti Suchsland as the dangerous, gunweilding, extremist willing to kill any trans person she comes in contact with in a...

Random act of kindness

Editor, After visiting your fine village, I was on my way home and had a flat tire. My roadside assistance wouldn’t help me and I couldn’t...