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...

Not coming back

Editor, We ended our three-day visit to your city on Monday, Memorial Day. It will be our third and last visit to Eureka Springs. The...

Wolftoon

Memorial Day

Independent Editorial – Let’s get down to it

 Sex is assigned at birth when the doctor or midwife checks a box identifying a baby’s exterior anatomy. Gender is what society does to the...

Alternative to pollution

Editor, The April 2016 Newsweek story on the Georgia-Pacific paper mill and the Ouachita River, with people dying from cancer, includes a statement from GP: “The...

Hog farm must go, and can

Editor, It has been three years now since AEP/SWEPCO sent our small town into a tizzy with their injudicious proposal to run a humongous power...

Solar power – problem or solution?

Editor, Last week’s article on climate change made it clear that business-as-usual is not an option. However, a number of people were especially disturbed by...