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Gracious in defeat
I was at my grandparents' home in Des Arc on June 11, 1972, when the much-anticipated debate between U.S. Sen. John L. McClellan and U.S. Rep. David Pryor took…
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MASTERSON ONLINE: Relief and dignity in leaving?
Given the choice of suffering in bed with an incurable fatal ailment and enduring more weeks, months or years without hope for improvement, what would you choo…
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OPINION | DRIVETIME MAHATMA: Folks, leave those road gators to the professionals
Dear Interstate Oracle: Road gators are pieces of tire retreads that fall off big trucks and litter the highways. I became way too familiar with them when I ra…
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OPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Learning from history
State senator from Craighead County Dan Sullivan recently penned in the Jonesboro Sun his reaction to viewing the unfiltered video of the horrific acts of mons…
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OPINION | PRESTON JONES: Ball of confusion
By coincidence, the same day in February the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette published an article about the military's recruitment crisis, my family arrived at a Mil…
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OPINION | DANA KELLEY: Prosecutorial malice
Presidential candidates and campaigns come and go. Some are better and some are worse, but every quadrennial the nation's citizens get to have their own say. A…
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OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Curiouser and curiouser
It already was a strange story, a tragedy, a matter of investigation and a wrongful-death lawsuit likely in the making.
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OPINION | BLAKE RUTHERFORD: Age of civility
I was 17 years old, dressed in creased navy blue slacks, a white shirt, a navy-blue necktie. In the most exclusive area of the United States Senate, off-limits…
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OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: The few, the timid, the Democrats
"Russellville may be small, but they're slow."--longtime Conway radio sportscaster Bill Johnson calling play-by-play for a high school basketball game in the m…
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OPINION | BRENDA LOOPER: A good man gone
Saturdays, as many people know, are a social-media-free (and often all media-free) day for me, and this one was all media since I was spending time sitting fur…
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OPINION | REX NELSON: Arkansas came first
My best days on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., in the 1980s were the slow days.
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OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Bold, brave, unfailingly nice
David Pryor stood as a paragon of Arkansas politics in his era, circa 1966 to 1996.
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OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: Baseball tonight
Want your faith in American restored? Go to a minor league baseball game.