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Sour Grapes Of Wrath

By Rachel Birdsell I have never in my life seen the amount of butt-hurt over an election as I’ve seen with this one. Stomping their feet wasn’t enough for some

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Climbing the Recycling Mountain

By Terrah Baker Roughly 50 percent of Fayetteville residents recycle. Still, over 13,500 tons of trash goes to the landfill each year — enough to cover Razorback Stadium seven stories

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Making Ripples

“Each year, an estimated 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide. That’s over one million plastic bags used per minute.” — <planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/plastic-bag-facts.html> Phase Out Plastic Bags with

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Forward Thinking

By Rachel Birdsell As I sit here the day after the election, I am so proud of the direction our country has taken. It seems as though we are finally

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Movies In The Obscure

By Claire Ala For 172 minutes I couldn’t take my eyes off the big screen. Cloud Atlas (2012) is the best movie I’ve seen in awhile. Six stories are creatively

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Wasn’t That A Mighty Storm?

By Rachel Birdsell It never fails. Every time we witness a natural disaster, be it hurricane, earthquake or tornado, there’s at least one twit who feels the need to jump

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My President

 By Rachel Birdsell I was taken to task by a reader over the last column I’d written about Mitt Romney. She let me know that it was trash and that

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Citizens of the U.S.: VOTE!

“The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison [the people] because they are different from other

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Ouija: Answer Me, Please

By Rachel Birdsell Last week I took some Ouija boards up to my shop in Eureka Springs to use as Halloween decorations. A couple stopped in and when the woman

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Massaging the Message

By Joyce Hale No one likes to think they have been suckered by a snake oil sales pitch. Yet in our collective desire to avoid energy realities, too many Americans