NWAonline FRAN ALEXANDER: Not out of the blue Saving of Buffalo River — again — took committed advocates by Fran Alexander “I could not not do something.” — Ginny Masullo, Buffalo River activist Over years of observing the process of participation in our political system by citizens wanting either to change […]
Democrat Gazette Media groups back suit challenging ‘Ag-Gag’ law by Linda Satter | August 14, 2019 The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and seven other media organizations have filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of a federal lawsuit challenging what animal-welfare groups call the “Arkansas Ag-Gag” law. The lawsuit was […]
MASTERSON ONLINE: Saving our Buffalo Many Arkansas rightfully wondered a year ago if the hog factory our state wrongheadedly permitted into the fragile Buffalo National River watershed in 2012 would forever be spraying millions of gallons of raw waste onto fields along a major tributary of the river flowing six […]
Listen to a 1992 interview with Dr. Neil Compton on KUAF Radio Celebrating the Man Who Helped Save the Buffalo By KYLE KELLAMS • AUG 9, 2019 Tomorrow is Dr. Compton Day in Bentonville, honoring the man who played a central role in saving the Buffalo River. In 1992, Neil Compton talked to us […]
Nwaonline NWA EDITORIAL: A dramatic pausePanel surprises with hesitance to protect Buffaloby NWA Democrat-Gazette Gov. Asa Hutchinson took a strong lead in protecting the Buffalo National River when he worked out a deal that would shutter C&H Hog Farm, that large-scale operation near a tributary to the state’s most important […]