Rex Nelson is a senior editor and columnist at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. He covers a diverse range of topics including public education, consumer travel, and regional interest, with a particular focus on the education system and sports business. Rex has been featured in various publications such as the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and the El Dorado News-Times.
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"He's not quitting."
This month marks 30 years since Mike Huckabee became governor on what the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette described as "the most chaotic day in Arkansas' political history."
On May 28, 1996, following his felony conviction in federal court, Gov. Jim Guy Tucker announced that he would resign as governor by July 15. That gave the state's lieutenant governor, Mike Huckabee, seven weeks to prepare.
By: Rex Nelson
In this week's episode, Rex Nelson sits down with the Chancellor of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Dr. Lowry Barnes.
By: Rex Nelson
Gov. Jim Guy Tucker's first letter on July 15, 1996, was on governor's office stationery. The letter said that Tucker was breaking his promise to resign as governor. He had announced his intention on May 28, the day a federal district court jury in Little Rock found him guilty on two felony counts.
I slow down during the short drive from Monticello to Warren in order to watch construction taking place on Weyerhaeuser Co.'s new facility.
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From the 1880s through the 1920s, Arkansans experienced an era known as the Big Cut. That's when the state's virgin timber was harvested from the Delta, the Ouachita Mountains, the Ozarks and the Gulf Coastal Plain.
Edward Savage Crossett became known as one of the top Southern lumbermen, but he wasn't raised in the South. He was born in February 1828 in West Plattsburgh, N.Y. His father was a veteran of the War of 1812.
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