Writer, broadcaster, strategic communicator
Arguably the most famous bit of manufactured sound of my lifetime was introduced on a movie screen in 1975. The visual is a plodding swim in sleepy deep water, amid minnows and sea grasses a few inches from the ocean floor. There’s nothing remotely fearsome, and yet, there’s a rushing, something rushing toward us …. Sound has the potential to jar listeners along a journey and reorient them. Sadly, my sound reporting is mostly nothing like this. But I love the texture sound introduces. A world wet and warm as a summer swim, and here, now, a bite.
State Sen. Alan Clark (R-Lonsdale) cast the decisive 27th vote in favor of granting Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s appropriation to the Department of Human Services funding the state’s health care coverage for low-income Arkansans called Arkansas Works. The bill now heads to the…
Election night 1992 brought a horde of people to the steps of the Old State House in Little Rock, where Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, along with his wife and daughter, and Tennessee Sen. Al Gore and his family, were waiting. Just after…
Arkansas has executed Ledell Lee, who was convicted of murdering a woman in 1993, 20 April 2018. The execution came shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the lethal injection. I covered the story from the Cummins Unit of…
Monday the state begins executing death row inmates. Seven in all. But today, as Christians everywhere marked the Passion of Jesus, an anti-death penalty throng converged on the steps of the Capitol. Little Rock Diocesan Bishop Anthony Taylor reminded the crowd —…
There was a time when Anthony Freeman wanted to be a Razorback. Arkansas’s original land-grant university was the very picture of “college” he held in his mind. He visited and applied and, he says, got in. That’s as far as it got….