Saving a bridge that needs saving

Editor, With the building of a new, wider bridge now underway in a different location, the plans call for removing the old span. Anyone whose heart...

Doing more with less

Editor, Thanks for your mention about the Cheryl Maples Plaque.  We have decided that the $6200 requested by the artist is too much for volunteers to...

Looking for a lost word

There used to be another word in the dictionary between the words direful and direwolf. (I am using American Heritage College Dictionary 4th ed.). It was a perfectly...

Wolftoon

Wolftoon

War on Americans

If you pluck a chicken one feather at a time nobody notices. Benito Mussolini Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in her 2019 book Fascism:...

Let it snow. Please. Thank you

Last week’s crazy storm got me thinking about snow. This is the fourth winter in a row ­– so far – that we have...

Stand by our name

Editor, I have been hearing about the “branding” of Eureka Springs. As I understand it, money is being spent to arrive at a word or phrase...

Wouldn’t it be nice to be nice?

An Internet meme making the rounds is Woody Guthrie’s 1943 “New Years Rulins.” Some are specific to Woody –write a song a day,” “play...

Avoiding war and warming beyond 2°C

Thinking about climate from a different point of view The climate story has evolved from a clear warning more than 30 years ago to a...

Swamp draining uncovers stuff

Editor, Promise made, promise kept: Trump promised to drain the swamp. He did. Replacing it with the open sewer that the Republican Party is willing...