The puerile video sent out by Gov. Sarah Sanders on Monday was the subject of a front-page story yesterday in the Arkansas...
https://www.rexnelsonsouthernfried.com/post/her-middle-finger
On the same day that a legislative session began in Little Rock, John Calipari was introduced in Fayetteville as the new head basketball...
Last week, I posted a letter from Gay White, former first lady of the state of Arkansas. In that letter, the widow of former Gov. Frank...
https://www.rexnelsonsouthernfried.com/post/the-real-republicans
Thank goodness for Gay White of Little Rock, the gracious spouse of the late Gov. Frank White. Gay wrote a letter to the editor of the...
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On the front page of Sunday's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, legendary state Capitol reporter Michael Wickline had his annual story on the...
https://www.rexnelsonsouthernfried.com/post/legislative-grifters
It's March 1. It's a day when I always think back to March 1, 1997, the sad Saturday when much of my hometown of Arkadelphia was...
https://www.rexnelsonsouthernfried.com/post/remembering-march-1-1997
Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour once described duck hunting this way: "The camaraderie and collegiality you get in duck hunting is...
https://www.rexnelsonsouthernfried.com/post/the-duck-decline
The phone rang early one morning back in 2018. On the other end of the line was the man who at the time was chairman of the Arkansas...
I met Eric Jackson in the winter of 1979. I was a college student at the time. I was also sports editor of the Daily Siftings Herald at...
https://www.rexnelsonsouthernfried.com/post/eric-jackson-s-journey
I'm having lunch at Big Bad Breakfast on Main Street in Little Rock and thinking about all that downtown has going for it these days....
https://www.rexnelsonsouthernfried.com/post/big-bad-downtown
One of the best things Asa Hutchinson did in his eight years as governor didn't receive the coverage it deserved at the time. That was...
https://www.rexnelsonsouthernfried.com/post/the-outdoor-recreation-state
I'm sitting in the monthly meeting of the Historic Arkansas Museum Commission, looking out the window at what once was the Fones Brothers...
https://www.rexnelsonsouthernfried.com/post/take-that-book-ban-dan
The lithium boom is going to happen in southwest Arkansas. There's no longer any doubt about that. It won't, however, be like the oil...
https://www.rexnelsonsouthernfried.com/post/the-lithium-boom
It's Valentine's Day. I began thinking about romantic getaways that Arkansans might not know about and kept coming back to the Calico...
https://www.rexnelsonsouthernfried.com/post/romantic-calico-rock
I've written before about a plaque that was on David Pryor's desk during his years as governor and U.S. senator. It stated that "Arkansas...
https://www.rexnelsonsouthernfried.com/post/arkansas-comes-last-1
We know them here at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette as "the usual suspects." They're the people who can't wait to write the allowed one...
https://www.rexnelsonsouthernfried.com/post/hyperpartisans-hyperventilate
In Sunday's column on the editorial page of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, I'll review a new book by one of my favorite people in...
https://www.rexnelsonsouthernfried.com/post/frank-o-mara-s-battle
In my column on the Voices page of today's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, I write about a new book from Stan Parris. I know most Arkansans...
https://www.rexnelsonsouthernfried.com/post/a-trip-to-walmart
As a trustee of the Winthrop Rockefeller Charitable Trust, Marion Burton had a dream. Burton, who died last last month at age 93, dreamed...
On the front page of today's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is a story from The New York Times about bitcoin operations popping up across...
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