Journalism matters
I am a journalism student at Kansas State University. A couple weeks ago over spring break, my family visited Eureka Springs, and I was able to pick up the March 12 copy of your...
Solutions requested
Yesterday I was filled with righteous indignation over my injury caused by the Forest Service, but overnight I realized just the opposite, they need their budget doubled. Last week there were over one hundred fires...
Controlled burn too close to home
Last Friday we were under a Red Flag-No Burn Ban, but on the way out of County Road 231, I noticed some burns with two large smoking hot spots. The Beaver bridge was...
And thanks for printing this after deadline
Editor,
I was arrested on Thursday, March 14 by the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office.
I would like to thank several people who work at the jail
First, Deputy Combs – the officer who took me to the...
American Insights
Words Worth Remembering: Frederick Douglass’s Rebuke
“The fact is, ladies and gentlemen, the distance between this platform and the slave plantation, from which I escaped, is considerable,” Frederick Douglass told a Rochester, New York, crowd...
American Insights
Marching On
Before they marched, they kneeled and prayed at Browns Chapel Methodist. “And then we set out, nearly six hundred of us,” John Lewis recalled. “We walked two abreast, in a pair of lines...
What’s wrong with what’s right?
Just read in our paper that Mike Welch cannot serve on our city council because of a 50-year-old conviction for pot.
Come on, Eureka council, this is obsolete and petty to do such a ridiculous...
Aldous Huxley called it
The outrage is coming so fast that yesterday’s outrage is supplanted by today’s. Our government is being dismantled so quickly that it’s hard to know how long it can last.
I was in my early...
American Insights
Words Worth Remembering: Reagan and the Cold War
He was not a man to mince words. Standing in the Royal Gallery at the Palace of Westminster in London on Tuesday, June 8, 1982, and speaking...
