by - February 8, 2018 11:48 pm
A group of 52 Fort Smith residents gathered Thursday (Feb. 8) for the fifth – and last time – to craft an improvement plan and associated funding level for broad…
by - February 4, 2018 5:29 pm
Familiar Fort Smith politico Denny Altes will seek election to the Arkansas Senate seat recently vacated by Republican Jake Files. However, Altes is not sure if he will run in…
by - January 30, 2018 5:50 pm
Fort Smith-based Beaty Capital Group now owns two former Masonic Temples. The group is set to close on a third temple in a few months, and before the year ends…
by - January 30, 2018 3:50 pm
Historical context is difficult to craft in describing the real and growing economic divide between Arkansas’ rural and urban areas. Solutions to the divide are outside the comforts of simple…
by - January 23, 2018 7:17 pm
A 30% tariff on certain imported solar products will slow the growing solar energy sector but it won’t halt or compromise the economic viability of large solar field projects like…
by - January 16, 2018 3:31 pm
Neal Martin will make a second attempt at being elected to the Fort Smith Board of Directors, announcing Monday (Jan. 15) he will be a candidate for the position 7,…
by - January 16, 2018 12:32 pm
Recently held back to allow a vehicle to exit a restaurant and merge into a busy and long line of traffic. The SUV sported on the back window a University…
by - January 12, 2018 5:01 pm
Sebastian County Sheriff Bill Hollenbeck has decided to step down after what will be eight years as sheriff and 35 years in law enforcement. He made the news public on…
by - January 10, 2018 2:30 pm
The Northwest Arkansas metro is back in the top 25 of the Milken Institute’s Best-Performing Cities Index for 2017, rising from the 30th spot in the 2016 report. The fast-growing…
by - December 31, 2017 2:45 pm
Editor’s note: This essay first appeared Dec. 28, 2008, on The City Wire, now Talk Business & Politics. It continues to be an appropriate note to begin a new year. …
by - December 31, 2017 2:36 pm
Three economists who closely watch Arkansas’ economy believe job growth and positive GDP reports will continue into 2018. Unfortunately, uneven economic growth in the state and a low labor force…
by - December 27, 2017 4:47 pm
Dr. Jerry Stewart, the former CEO of Cooper Clinic who held numerous leadership posts in the region ranging from Fort Smith Public School Board to the creation of the Fort…
by - December 17, 2017 5:34 pm
Back in 1986 the Georgia Satellites provided advice to news anchors, members of Congress, media moguls and future presidents when they sang, “Don’t hand me no lines and keep your…
by - December 6, 2017 3:22 pm
Damn bunch of heathens we are, according to state tax collections. Arkansans are drinking more, smoking more and gambling more. Y’all need baby Jesus. Or Buddha. Or a better football…
by - November 29, 2017 3:23 pm
She played banker with her Barbies using bank forms her grandfather would bring from his office at Farmers & Merchants Bank in Prairie Grove. She was in high school when…
by - November 19, 2017 3:59 pm
Editor’s note: It’s been a year since Patricia Brown, a co-owner of Talk Business & Politics (originally The City Wire), died following a second bout with breast cancer. This essay…
by - November 17, 2017 8:27 pm
Probably shouldn’t. But here goes. It was karma that caught up with Jeff Long. Not the good kind. The kind that comes around when your britches get bigger than your…
by - November 9, 2017 6:17 pm
Editor’s note: This essay about my grandfather, Raymond Evans, was first published November 2002. Raymond Evans died Dec. 6, 2008. It is published each Veterans Day because there is no…
by - November 5, 2017 2:59 pm
Editor’s note: This essay was first posted in November 2012. Few things have changed. ––––––––––––––––––– In this month containing the Thanksgiving holiday, folks on Facebook have taken to listing something…
by - November 1, 2017 5:04 pm
Birmingham, Ala.-based PRADCO Outdoor Brands has acquired Rogers-based War Eagle Custom Lures and will operate the business from its fishing division in Fort Smith. Terms of the deal were not…
