Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 12+

I admire the programmers that figured this out - My Democrat- Gazette is always with me - I have read these 2 papers since 1944 - I think that I learned to read fascinated with the war coverage - It has been a part of almost every day since - What a difference during 4 years of Army Service(2 in VN) it would have have made - I had a hard time finding out the Arkansas-Texas score in 1964 - But then I found a friend that was a ham operator and he found out from somebody in Japan - From SpecIal Forces Camp Plei Me near the Cambodian Border touching ARkansas meant a great deal - I have used online for years while traveling, cumbersome at first but always getting better - While I might suggest a few small changes, it is easy to use and just WELL DONE - Thank you Walter Hussman and your programmers - It has always and still is the best paper I know and I am a newspaper junkie that reads many newspapers.

Each morning of this freezing Kansas winter I get out of bed around seven thirty or eight. I make my coffee, and while it makes I start a fire in our wood stove. I pick up my iPad, pour a cup of coffee, sit down in my catnapper with my feet close to the stove and open my iPad to the new edition of the Democrat Gazette.

I met my wife while attending a military school at Camp Robinson. She lived in Broadmoor at the time. I became familiar with Little Rock and enjoyed reading the Gazette every day I was there. The Arkansas Section is the best. These many years later (still married) I sit in the middle of the Kansas prairie and imagine the traffic on I 630, or the sound of the blue jays at Maumelle State Park, or the smell of Arkansas (wet wood, wood smoke and trees). I hear the traffic on Cantrell, taste Shipley donuts from the donut shop, hear the sound of running water from Rock Creek. I watch the barges going up and down the Arkansas River, I see the bright yellow street cars downtown, I see that railroad bridge at the Clinton Center.

I get all of this when I read my daily Democrat Gazette. I wouldn’t want to live life without it. Thanks for the good times.

Dennis Flavin
Esbon, Kansas

A lifelong reader of newspapers and a 40 year subscriber to the Democrat/Democrat-Gazette, I joined the thousands who lamented the change to digital format that was inevitable. But not willing to lose what is one of the best newspapers in America, I signed up for the new technology. Well......it’s not the same. IT IS BETTER. Way easier to read with brilliant color photography, graphics, ads and extras that make the Arkansas Dem/Gaz an absolute joy. And I do the puzzles and games everyday. I don’t use the audio versions but they are there. And extras that make the difference. Thank you, Walter Hussman, and the entire staff for a dynamite performance every day! Here’s to another 200 years!