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File these developments under better late than never.

Theres often no shortage of state comparisons in which Arkansas fares poorly. However, in many of those so-called rankings, the metric or data point is so narrow that its lack of context renders it inert as information, or worse, misleading.

The Madison County Record of Huntsville and its publisher, Ellen Kreth, have won the 2022 Tom and Pat Gish Award for courage, integrity and tenacity in rural journalism from the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues at the University of Kentucky.

The temperature on this late July day again was edging toward 95 degrees when I eased into a slot at the Sonic. It was past time for an icy drink to wet my dry mouth.

Im rooting around in Huntsvilles backyard again following that embarrassing incident on May 24 when Washington County sheriffs deputies discovered Huntsville School board member Duane Glenn and former Superintendent Audra Kimball (now transferred to a new district administrative position) parked beneath a rural bridge at 10 p.m. after Glenn said they shared a dinner in Rogers.

The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette won first place for general excellence among the state's largest daily newspapers Saturday in the Arkansas Press Association's Better Newspaper Contest.

Taxpayers in Huntsville's School District must fork over $12,912 in attorneys' fees to Fort Smith attorney Joey McCutchen after the district lost a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed against the board. Circuit Judge Doug Martin found the board guilty of committing several FOIA violations in the case brought by Benjamin Rightsell of Witter.

Lisa Hammersly, investigative reporter and former projects team leader of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, was presented the Arkansas Press Association Freedom of Information Award at the association’s convention Saturday.

Every seat was taken in every watering hole in the Miami airport Friday night.

The good people of Huntsville on Tuesday sent a stinging rebuke of their school board's terrible mishandling of the notorious "bean dipping" and "baptism" scandal by voting to send three of the current seven-member board, including President Danny Thomas, packing.