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by Melinda Gassaway, guest column March 15, 2023If most of the world has read George Orwell as a cautionary tale, our woke folk apparently read him as a how-to kit; hence the recent news that Puffin Books, w…
by Bradley Gitz March 13, 2023Looking back on it, March 2004 was a quirky time in Hot Springs.
March 12, 2023As a city director for close to two decades, I tried to make sure that all the people in the city, county and bordering areas knew what we were about to vote o…
by Peggy Maruthur, guest columnist March 12, 2023Address 'real' issues
March 12, 2023One watches the Super Bowl and the Academy Awards presentation without fail for the same reasons, no matter which teams are playing or which films you might no…
by Bob Wisener March 12, 2023According to the latest statistics for the 12 months ending in April 2022, 81,692 people in this country died from opioid drug use. For a man who grew up in a …
by Jim Davidson March 12, 2023Lots of people these days claim to be offended or even "traumatized" by lots of things. The hunch is that the vast majority are lying about it. And lots of the…
by Bradley Gitz March 6, 2023SAN DIEGO -- Even as we make our way through the Era of the Woke, Americans are still asleep at the switch when it comes to combating one of the most insidious…
March 6, 2023Reconsider part of SB81
March 5, 2023Back in late 2022, the Arkansas state House of Representatives put out a report that said there were 300,000 adults in my state who did not have a high school …
by Jim Davidson March 5, 2023You may not realize it, but you're in danger of losing your ability to read not only this newspaper, but many other local newspapers in Arkansas. This time the…
by Arkansas Democrat-Gazette March 5, 2023Military service is a family affair. There is a lot asked of loved ones who serve alongside the men and women who wear our nation's uniform. They move away fro…
by U.S. Sen. John Boozman, guest column March 5, 2023As we all know, time marches on and so we begin this third month of the year with continued best wishes for Hot Springs and Garland residents and, of course, t…
March 1, 2023In some circles, what I am going to say in today's column will be about as popular as a skunk at a family picnic. But first, this brief disclaimer. You know th…
by Jim Davidson February 26, 2023