Daily Archives: March 19, 2019


Greed over ecology – Letter to the Editor

Greed over ecology Good gobbledygook! They walk among us and sit in the state Legislature. Just when we feel that the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality has gotten the message about hog waste, porous limestone and the resulting harm to the our nationally treasured Buffalo River, the self-servers that walk […]


MIKE MASTERSON: A real stinker

MIKE MASTERSON: A real stinkerby Mike Masterson | Today at 2:15 a.m. Senate Bill 550, sponsored by state Sen. Gary Stubblefield, a former dairy farmer from Branch, aims to replace the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality’s permitting system for hog factories with a far less demanding “certification” process by the Natural Resources […]


JOHN BRUMMETT: Listen to the experts

JOHN BRUMMETT: Listen to the experts, Gusby John Brummett | Today at 4:30 a.m. Lonesome Dove is an epic novel and a masterpiece in the television miniseries genre. Augustus McCrae leaps from the pages and screen to charm and inspire with his cad’s exterior and hero’s heart. But those were the 1870s. The […]