Opinion

The speed with which college sports has been changing in recent years accelerated with the recent announcement that major programs are ready to pay athletes directly. The NCAA and the five major conferences agreed to pay current and former athletes $2.77 billion in damages over the next 10 years.

Don’t Be Fooled, indeed Editor: We have recently been bombarded by slick fliers from a group opposing the Arkansas Educational Rights Amendment. The headline is “Don’t Be Fooled!” “Don’t Be Fooled!” VERY good advice to keep in mind when reading these fliers.

Five-foot-tall Jordan Summers stepped up to the microphone

If you’ve met me anytime in the last 20 years or so you probably noticed that I walked with a pretty severe limp.

If Walmart can’t make a buck operating a health care clinic, who can?

Can nice guys finish first in politics? Yes, but they should be more than just nice, and Sen. David Pryor was.

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ office might have violated several state laws in the now-infamous purchase of a custom-made lectern at a cost of $19,000.

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I’ll be taking some time off soon, but it won’t be a vacation.