American Insights

James Otis’s Fight In February 1761, almost four months after George III’s ascension, the first major controversy surrounding imperial policy gripped Boston politics. That month,...

Shattering a mosaic

A couple years back, I met someone who told me if I ever had a good idea, to please reach out. So, at the...

American Insights

The Purpose of Government  On Tuesday, March 4, 1913, Woodrow Wilson delivered his first inaugural address. The day “dawned cloudy,” Irwin Hoover recalled, “but the...

This’ll warm you right up

On the frigid morning of Tuesday, January 16 at 9 a.m. while the temperature was in the single digits and the windchill was subzero,...

Blowin’ in the wind

Scout Clean Energy’s –Nimbus LLC facility proposed for Carroll County has advertised, as I have read online, that at “peak” the project will produce...

Thoughts on the proposed wind farm

Members of the Carroll County, Arkansas, Quorum Court Re: Proposed Ordinances/January 16, 2024, QC Meeting Dear Members: We have been provided copies of two proposed ordinances to...

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Joseph Warren’s Last Stand He could hear the cannons roar in Boston as he lay in bed, frozen by a headache. He hadn’t slept in...

Great pair of knees? No. Great Pyrenees

Editor, A note to the gentleman who helped me Saturday morning at Sun Fest Grocery by volunteering to remove some dried leaves about to go...

Then was Then

Eureka Springs Brotherhood Co-op The Eureka Springs Co-op was in the old Cook and Border building, previously an auto repair shop on First Street, owned by...

American Insights

The Radical Faith   Lee’s surrender to Grant at Appomattox on April 9, 1865, they knew, was not the end but the beginning of a new...