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‘Fool’proof system IDs next Hogs coach

Updated: Nov 29, 2012 12:41pm

I think I’m starting to get a handle on this search for the next University of Arkansas Razorbacks head football coach.

I’ll acknowledge that it took a while. I spent way too much time...

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Nation needs elder Bush’s moderation

Nov 01, 2012 12:00am

Our nation needs another mission. I have one. Direct all our resources into one fountain-of-youth opportunity. Then, take 25 years off George H.W. Bush and install him as president until he...

Racial disagreements continue

Oct 25, 2012 1:00am

On the Oct. 12 episode of Arkansas Educational Television Network’s “Arkansas Week,” Jeff Hankins and I had a little spat.

Jeff is outgoing publisher of Arkansas Business. He gave me my...

Put on the brakes for these dining hot spots

Oct 18, 2012 1:00am

For work or play, I spend a lot of time wearing out tires and keeping the oil markets buoyed by spending way too much time on highways and roads across the state, but that doesn’t mean I go hungry...

‘System’ needs a technological upgrade

Oct 11, 2012 1:00am

There’s this man I know. He’s in his mid-60s. He doesn’t get around quite as spryly as he used to, but he’s not an old man by any stretch of the imagination. He doesn’t have as much gray in his...

‘Independent’ journalists enjoy freedom

Oct 04, 2012 1:00am

I remember the day like it was yesterday. Anyone who knows me knows how crazy that is.

Saturday afternoon. I was in the newsroom for some reason. I might have been putting together pages. I...

An ‘expert’s’ hunting tips

Sep 27, 2012 1:00am

Feels like deer season, doesn’t it?

Well, it is. For some reason, the Game and Fish Commission opened bow season two weeks earlier than normal. Guess someone wants to study more West Nile...

Enemy forcing U.S. hand toward war

Sep 20, 2012 1:00am

I’ve not been paying a ton of attention to the news the past few days — something almost as important has kicked off, deer bow-hunting season — but I have been checking in a few times a day.

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State loses when hogs do

Sep 13, 2012 1:00am

I haven’t indulged in my goofiest guilty pleasure in a year or so. Yes, I like to play two video games. One is “Tiger Woods Golf” for whatever year. The other is the really sad one. It’s “NCAA...

Truth about the media

Sep 06, 2012 1:00am

I was on the way to town Sunday (“town” being Hampton) to pick up some charcoal lighter fluid and ice (throw in a dog bone for Mencken), when the program started on the radio. The conservative...

Extremism guides too much policy

Aug 30, 2012 1:00am

Two potentially deadly mixes, both government-sanctioned, have resulted in harm or potential harm recently.

Will either policy change in the near future? Probably not.

First, the state...