Mark Carter

The 2020 Minor League Baseball season has been cancelled, the organization announced Tuesday, meaning no baseball this summer for the Arkansas Travelers and Northwest Arkansas Naturals. The move was made after Major League Baseball informed the minor leagues that it…

Before the interstate opened in 1999, pig-trailing up the Boston Mountains was how one got to Fayetteville from points south and east. There was Highway 71, of course, but it too entailed a sometimes precarious two lanes skirting across, around…

Flying back into Little Rock from Chicago a couple of years ago, the Southwest pilot was in a giving mood. We arrived over Central Arkansas not too removed from sunset, the sky in full spectacular gloam. This was going to…

The oldest profession, well, we all know what comes immediately to mind. Real estate, though, has to be a pretty close second. Emerging from the Apocalypse, some might argue, will be a banker, a lawyer, a real estate agent and…

University of Arkansas Athletic Director Hunter Yurachek announced Thursday afternoon that a Razorback athlete has tested positive for COVID-19.   Yurachek said the athlete, whose name and sport were not revealed, tested positive last week and is now recovering in isolation…

A recently paroled inmate from the Cummins Unit of the Arkansas state prison system tested positive for COVID-19 after traveling to Eureka Springs, according to the Eureka Independent.  Jad Perkins, 40, was recently paroled with no symptoms of the virus,…

A bird flew by the other day as I sat in my dining room-turned-office. Being a dining room-turned office as opposed to a patio-inspired workspace, this wasn’t ideal. Better a bird than a snake, I suppose. But the lesson of…

Arkansas Trucking Firms Adjust to Pandemic The great pandemic of 2020 has done many things: Strained the capacity of the health-care delivery system; forced a re-evaluation of the means through which higher education is delivered; richly rewarded investment in food-delivery and…

Like Aragorn to Eowyn in the film adaption of Tolkien’s epic “love story,” college football remains but a shadow and a thought to tens of millions of pent-up fans across the country pining for true love. Currently, it can’t give…

Economies have survived past global crises, but the coronavirus seemingly has launched a new chapter in modern human history. As with 9/11, it’s likely that business won’t return to pre-pandemic normal. In many respects, the industrialized world is treading new…