Arkansas Democrat Gazette Columnists

This is the tale of one of Sammie McNair’s Thanksgiving feasts.

There will be no country music, pizza or independence in the Arkansas Razorbacks’ bowl plans.

One of the first things Betty Hardin noticed about Ray Mottwiler was his 1957 Ford convertible, which is fitting since Ray was her blind date because he had a car.

With Thanksgiving happening later this week, it’s the perfect time for us to reflect on our many blessings.

“Lee and Grant,” a National Endowment for the Humanities traveling exhibit on the lives of the two Civil War generals, has settled in for a seven-week stay at Little Rock’s MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History.

Defense attorneys know memory is unreliable, a bad witness prone to confabulation and self-service.

While speaking with a group of visitors recently, I mentioned that the primary black male and female composers of the 20th Century were Arkansans. I could tell that my listeners at least recognized the name William Grant Still, who was born in Mississippi in 1895 but grew up in Little Rock and went on to become known as “the dean of American Negro composers.”

Ricardo Martinelli says his most memorable years were as a student at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville from 1969-74.

Political “science” has never been all that complicated. Indeed, sometimes its as simple as adding 1 to 1 to get 2.

Dear Mahatma: What can we do with old license plates besides making a birdhouse roof? I’m concerned about just throwing them away or putting them in the recycle bin. —Sherry.

I sense a bipartisan storm brewin’ in Benton County as election commissioners urge county government to save money by virtually abandoning paper ballots.

When Walter Kimbrough visited Little Rock and the campus of Philander Smith College in 2004, he knew he had found the right place.

Triumphant in tragedy and tragic in triumph.

Barack Obama was just a wee lad the last time a president jumped the gun on the judicial process, so it probably never occurred to him to exercise a little verbal restraint.

It’s been just over a month since I dove face-first into the social network program Facebook. Knowing the origin of the site as an electronic version of a university class picture directory, I expected it to be a forum dominated by kids and college students.

Faith played a big role in Jeremiah Jackson’s decision to commit to Arkansas last summer.

Maybe it was the arrival of the Heisman Trophy ballot that brought Florida senior quarterback Tim Tebow to mind.

SEEING STARS: It was surreal to be ushered into circa 1980s rocker Rick Springfield’s practice Thursday afternoon before the Holiday Celebration on Ice show in Verizon Arena. The evening’s show was to be filmed and aired on NBC.