Independent Editorial: It isn’t that taxing
It has been an interesting couple of months if you’ve been following the multiple councils/commissions of Eureka Springs. This week a local businessman, Ken...
Council decision regrettable
Editor,
Concerning the Independent’s article, “New B&Bs on suspension” (June 29), I lament the Eureka Springs City Council’s lack of basic fairness in banning future...
Environmental Justice and Public Health
“It seems reasonable to believe that the more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe around us,...
Independent Guestatorial: It makes a village
The Good Shepherd Humane Society (GSHS) is a non-profit corporation in Eureka Springs that’s more than 40 years old. During that time there have...
Times, they are a changin’
Editor,
I wish to correct this gentleman.
He refers to the outdated, homophobic classification of homosexuality by the American Psychiatric Association as “a mental disorder.”...
Politics should be unusual
Editor,
I wrote this for the Independent back in 2012 right after the Sandy Hook massacre. Four years and countless mass shootings later, it does...
Switchback rumble
Editor,
We know the switchback curves of 62 West of town are deadly – recently there were two killed when a truck crossed the center...
Wolftoon
Brother can you spare a dime
Independent Guestatorial: Fluff silence
“I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.” ― Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope
“Once upon a time, there...
Few blues at the Blues
Editor,
I hope everyone who loves the Blues, our beloved town of Eureka Springs, and the Arts had as good a weekend as Celest &...