There is a saying among newspaper folks that we publicize everyone but ourselves.

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Rose Mary Buffalo, longtime editor of the Carlisle Independent, passed away three years ago today.

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I will tell you a true story, but first I will tell you the point, in case you fail to make it to the bottom.

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Get a jumpstart on a healthy new year by taking a stroll through one of Arkansas’ state parks Sunday.

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CRIME STATS: Do they tell the whole story? A New York Times article focuses on a New York city problem that I suspect is replicated many other places. Some question the accuracy of crime data because they think many crimes go unreported. In this account, many go unreported because cops discourage the filing of official reports. Some [...]

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DARRIN WILLIAMS Thanks to Stephens Media for noting Governing magazine’s inclusion of state Rep. Darrin Williams of Little Rock on its list of a dozen state legislators nationwide to watch in 2012. Yes, but he’ll likely fade into irrelevancy with other Democrats if the Republican jihad seizes a House majority. Williams won’t be House speaker. Terry Rice [...]

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ozarkwaterprojects.org CLEAN WATER IN HAITI: A painting tells the story of the Ozark Water Projects in Haiti. A change of pace on a so-far quiet holiday weekend. Roger Armbrust, a former Arkansas Democrat reporter now retired back in Little Rock after a career in New York, contributes columns to Yahoo and today’s is a feel-good story about Arkansans, [...]

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Heartening news from Montana. The state Supreme Court there has upheld the state law that bans direct corporate spending in state and local elections. It’s an affront to the odious Citizens United ruling by which the Republicans on the U.S. Supreme Court gave personhood — and essentially greater power — to corporations than it gives [...]

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The most-read online story we published in 2011 was a report and photos about Fort Smith native Alyse Eady, who was competing at Miss America as Miss Arkansas.

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By Robbie Neiswanger Arkansas News Bureau • rneiswanger@arkansasnews.com FAYETTEVILLE — Grant Cook and Grant Freeman met during the recruiting process, when the Arkansas high school products considered their college choices. Both signed with Arkansas and were roommates their first year on campus in 2007. To no one’s surprise, they became close friends over the next four years. But Freeman [...]

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