By Rick Fahr Log Cabin staff writer Not that anyone asked, but a frank commencement address:“Good afternoon graduates, faculty and staff, distinguished guests — no, not you politicians; sit down — I refer to the parents and grandparents who raised these young people. “In thousands of graduat...

I don't watch much professional basketball anymore.

(Author’s note: This is the final in a series of commentaries on an illness that affects thousands of veterans, many of whom are not receiving the mental health care they need and deserve.) For a long time, I didn’t know what was wrong. I just knew something wasn’t right. I finally found out, ...

Because the profession is so routinely denigrated by critics or those with political agendas, it is easy to forget that journalism is an often thankless, endlessly difficult and, at times, life-threatening occupation. Marie Colvin reminded the world of that. The 56-year-old foreign correspondent was...

Three Republican presidential candidates are shamelessly criticizing President Barack Obama for apologizing to the government of Afghanistan for the incineration of Qurans at a U.S. military base in that country. Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum should be praising the president instead, ...

Planning for a coming expense now rather than later seems to make sense, but that is apparently not the way the Arkansas Legislature views the looming Medicaid shortfall. The latest estimate from the state Department of Human Services is that the state’s Medicaid deficit will reach $400 million ne...

The “fracking” debate in our state today is little different than the hog raising debate of the late 1990s. Both cases pitted business interests against individual concerns, with the whole thing simmering around lingering environmental questions that have outpaced regulators. At this point, the ...

Few things remain the same in the neighborhood into which I was born. Our house on Watkins Street is gone. It burned in the late 1980s, its Craftsman style neglected and unappreciated by later owners. The molded, stone-textured concrete block porch banisters and columns live on in photographs,...

While trying to figure out how to compare today’s Arkansas General Assembly to the ones of yesteryear, the sig line of a website commenter came to mind. The nugget of information at the bottom of each post reminds that a federal guideline sets an allowable limit of two rodent hairs per 100 grams o...

The “fracking” debate in our state today is little different than the hog raising debate of the late 1990s. Both cases pitted business interests against individual property concerns, with the whole thing simmering around lingering environmental questions that have outpaced regulators. At this po...