First responders are top-notch

This may seem like jumping the gun a little bit since later in the month the Clinton Daily News will be producing its annual salute to the area first responders, but time and time again the people charged with protecting the citizens of Clinton have shown they are more than capable of rising to the...

An alarmingly narrow house majority

It’s a truism that it is extremely difficult to govern with a tiny majority in the House of Representatives. When there are no vacancies, there are 435 members; if everybody shows up, it takes a bare majority, 218 votes, to pass a bill.

Donald Trump is testing the Constitution

After nightfall on Jan.

Trump brings out his inner ‘madman’

He wanted his aides to tell diplomats, “I’m sorry ... he is out of control ... you don’t know the man,” or that he’s a “dramatically disjointed personality ... capable of barbaric cruelty ... more than a little paranoid.

Getting older has its certain quirks

If you’ve turned to this page wanting to see another editorial about Clinton Regional Hospital and the City of Clinton, then I’m afraid you will be sorely disappointed. I just didn’t have it in me this time. So, enjoy the reprieve because I know you and I need one from that subject right about now.

Democrats still don’t know what hit them

On Feb. 1, the Democratic National Committee will gather in suburban Maryland to elect a new chair.Every indication suggests they still don’t fully appreciate what happened to them in the 2024 election.

Missing the companionship of cows

When the weather gets really awful, as it normally does in January around here, I find myself yearning for the companionship of cows. “Around here” is Arkansas, where my wife and I lived on a cattle farm in Perry County for nine years until her eyesight went bad and we had to move back to town.

Jack Smith did the same thing Trump did

President Donald Trump has thrown the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 Capitol riot prosecutions out the window. But a week before Trump became president, the Department essentially did the same to its own investigation of Trump.

The misinformation superhighway

Notice how you never hear anybody talk about “the information superhighway” anymore? The creation of the internet marked a big advance in human ingenuity, yes. As a lifelong reader who feels claustrophobic in libraries, it’s been an enormous boon to my existence. I spend hours online every day.

Trump’s sentencing only did one thing

President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced last week in the bookkeeping case brought against him by Alvin Bragg, the elected Democratic district attorney of Manhattan.The sentence was effectively nothing.