Arkansas Republican Rep. Nate Bell on Friday morning posted on Twitter: “I wonder how many Boston liberals spent the night cowering in their homes wishing they had an AR-15 with a hi-capacity magazine?” Dear Mr. Bell, I am writing in response to your “ill-timed” tweet regarding “Boston liberals.” Like many other millions around Boston, Arkansas,…
By Luke Simons Head over to the Fayetteville Public Library this Sunday for a great opportunity to find out where the frontlines are in battles to bring the fossil fuels industry to justice. That’s right — there actually are front-lines… And there is plenty to share, some of it very good news. Granted, not all…
Dear Editor: In 2012 I traveled to Pakistan to investigate how drone strikes were impacting Pakistani citizens. Upon my arrival, it became clear that President Obama’s drone strike policy is gravely impacting our national security because innocent civilians witness the unprovoked killing of brothers, sisters, wives, husbands, sons and daughters. Furthermore, the Obama administration has…
Dear Editor: Springtime is here and Feed Fayetteville is so excited to see our gardens growing! We have eight new straw bale gardens located at the Fayetteville Community Food Hub. These raised beds are designated SNAP Gardens. Since 1973, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has provided participants the ability to purchase plants and seeds…
Dear Editor: The editorial by Donna Shade and Claudia Reynolds-LeBlanc [The New Rights War On Women, published March 7] was certainly passionate, but I never understood what their point was. Most people recognize the legal necessity of abortion. (Citing a poll by Planned Parenthood on abortion is like a poll by Walmart on unions.) The…
Dear Editor: Friday afternoon, March 29, Pegasus pipeline, an Exxon Mobil pipeline carrying Canadian crude oil, ruptured and sent thousands of barrels of oil, a yet “officially” undetermined amount, into the streets and onto the property of residents of Mayflower. The rupture also occurred dangerously close to Lake Conway, within 2 miles of the Arkansas…
Dear Editor: I am dedicating a large sculpture to the beloved Lonesome George, who passed away June 2012. He was more than 100 years old. He was discovered in the 1970s on Pinta Island of the Galapagos Islands. He was the only surviving species of his type. He was relocated to the Charles Darwin research…
Severe winter weather has been sweeping the country. New England was recently buried under one of the worst blizzards in recorded history.
Dear Editor: In November 2011, I published a children’s book called “The Journey to Stone Village.” I wrote the book several years earlier and had tried to find an illustrator and publishing company for a long, long time. Once I figured out the system on how to publish, I knew that I had to share…
Dear Editor: During the Vietnam War, I was a professor in UAF’s English Department. Even as the years of the war mounted (two years, eight years, 10 years!) the university failed to respond to the killing — and devastation — of millions of people subjected to bombs, napalm and agent orange, their villages burned and…