by - October 4, 2021 3:40 pm
We’re not returning to normal
Baseball’s greatest pundit, one Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra, observed, “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over,” meaning a team or an individual should never consider the outcome of a game a…
Author: Paul Holmes
by - August 15, 2021 6:50 pm
Don’t expect lights on a third bridge to Memphis
Remember when automobile headlight switches had three positions — off, parking lights only and headlights fully on? So what’s the big deal, you might ask? That three position headlight switch…
by - July 16, 2021 4:33 pm
District judges, county officials searching for bailiff funding solution
Craighead County elected officials and the county’s elected district judges may soon meet to settle on how to pay for dedicated bailiffs for the district courts. District Judges Tommy Fowler…
by - July 13, 2021 12:28 pm
Higher building material prices the result of ‘perfect storm’ of factors
A number of factors combined to produce what E.C. Barton and Co., commodity buyer Matt Gordon called a perfect storm around the price and availability of building materials, a storm…
by - June 14, 2021 11:28 am
Making sparks fly
The ongoing showdown between President Joe Biden and Senate Republicans over Biden’s infrastructure plan seems likely to produce more heat than light, but Arkansans have a stake in where the…
by - May 7, 2021 9:00 am
The sound of business
It had been nearly 50 years since I’d spent any time in northern Alabama before a brief trip there last week. I was interested to see not only what had…
by - April 3, 2021 10:47 am
It’s time
As the COVID pandemic marked its first anniversary, Gov. Asa Hutchinson had two words for Arkansans: diligence and vaccination. By diligence, Gov. Hutchinson said in late March he wants Arkansans…
by - March 8, 2021 8:38 am
Travel industry hopes pent-up demand leads to strong 2021
The impacts of the lingering COVD-19 pandemic can be seen in virtually every area of the U.S. economy, but perhaps the effects are no more visible than in the travel…
by - March 6, 2021 11:18 am
Common Ground or No Man’s Land?
It has been a while since an announcement by Osceola’s Chuck Banks, a longtime Democrat, that he was switching to the Republican Party was a pretty big news item in…
by - February 11, 2021 2:02 pm
5 new judges join 2nd District bench
Five new circuit judges are now a month into their six-year terms in the 2nd Judicial District, dealing with both the change of gears in their professional lives and the…
by - February 10, 2021 8:12 am
The ‘Three Rivers Rule’
The majority opinion in a recent session of court was that the Three Rivers Rule is no longer a reliable defense. The opinion was rendered not at the bar of…
by - January 10, 2021 11:10 am
Life pictures
A quotation variously attributed to Friedrich the Great of Prussia and Napoleon Bonaparte of France says that an army marches on its stomach. Essential to the progress of a fighting…
by - December 14, 2020 5:47 pm
Adjusting to pandemic fuels Star Transportation’s agility
There is no road map for negotiating the rough and uncharted terrain that the COVID-19 pandemic has presented to many of those trying to make it through a difficult 2020….
by - December 8, 2020 5:47 pm
Charlie, Lucy, William and the concept of unity
As much as we’d hoped that with the advent of cooler weather, we were about done with the whole COVID-19 business, the Arkansas Department of Health is telling us different….
by - November 1, 2020 7:53 am
Experts say election outcome to influence investment decisions
Americans will have decided who they want leading the nation and the policy directions they want the government to pursue for the next four years by Nov. 3. That decision…
by - October 29, 2020 7:27 am
Is it too soon?
At the risk of sounding like an old guy, which I am, it seems to me that the Christmas shopping season begins earlier each year. If the impossible-to-ignore loads of…
by - September 3, 2020 12:04 pm
Coping With COVID-19: ASU’s Dr. Kelly Damphousse is ready for coronavirus challenge
Arkansas State University students returning to the Jonesboro campus for the fall semester are finding a campus different from the one they left in March when the spread of COVID-19…
by - September 3, 2020 8:13 am
The virus and voting
With the general election a scant two months away, it’s time we get ourselves informed about what we’ll see on what promises to be a lengthy ballot. Before we do,…
by - August 10, 2020 4:41 pm
Convention center manager: People ‘itching to get together’
Perhaps Kraig Pomrenke’s middle name should be “Patient.” Pomrenke, the general manager of the Embassy Suites-Red Wolf Convention Center on the Arkansas State University campus, experienced construction delays due to…
by - August 10, 2020 4:38 pm
For Jonesboro, is past prologue?
It’s a rare treat when a single document can provide a look at the past and a glimpse into the future simultaneously. That’s the way it felt the other day…