by - January 4, 2023 4:35 pm
Money issues
Just how confident are we about the economy heading into the new year? American consumers’ confidence in the U.S. economy grew in December as high inflation continued to ease, according…
Author: Paul Holmes
by - December 15, 2022 10:38 am
Connections and communication
For the last several years, we’ve gone to suburban Kansas City to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday with my brother Bruce and sister-in-law Lynn. While there, in addition to loads of…
by - October 12, 2022 5:12 pm
Eugene’s blue jeans
I can’t remember the exact date but I believe it was in the spring of 2000 that Eugene (the English approximation of my Ukraine visitor’s name), asked if we could…
by - September 5, 2022 9:29 am
Thunder Road
Sitting around the coffee table one early morning, our group took an informal survey and concluded, informally of course, that many of us aren’t carrying around all our original parts….
by - August 10, 2022 8:46 am
Of missed emails and dead cousins
I didn’t make the trip to the Sonoma County Courthouse in Santa Rosa, Calif., last month for the hearing on a bank’s petition to admit to probate the will of…
by - July 13, 2022 1:48 pm
A traveler’s musings
We recently spent the better part of a week in Morocco, touring its largest cities and visiting so many historic sites in that beautiful North African country that unfortunately some…
by - June 16, 2022 5:09 pm
Unbreakable bond
The two communities are 800 miles apart, but after the events of May 24, the small South Texas town and Northeast Arkansas’ largest city are members of an ever-growing group,…
by - June 13, 2022 7:07 pm
Jonesboro agri parts distributor keeps plowing ahead
There is no question that COVID-19 pandemic disruptions have been felt in virtually every sector of the U.S. economy, perhaps nowhere more acutely than in agriculture. The pandemic followed hard…
by - April 3, 2022 9:15 am
A second chance
This time, says Jerry Morgan of the Jonesboro Advertising and Promotion Commission, it is going to happen. It is the construction of a multi-sports complex in Jonesboro, the largest city…
by - March 9, 2022 5:55 pm
Those days are gone
In the days when the Arkansas General Assembly met in regular sessions only every other year, I was obligated by the news outlets that employed me to ask local legislators…
by - February 13, 2022 3:02 pm
Two little words
I’m often accused by my friends of using 10 words when two will do. OK, I’m guilty. So in an effort to mend my loquacious ways, I’ll focus for the…
by - February 8, 2022 3:22 pm
Governor, U.S. Steel executives break ground on $3 billion steel mill in Osceola
U.S. Steel execs and Arkansas officials broke ground Tuesday (Feb. 8) on the largest economic development project in Arkansas history, a $3 billion steel mill at Osceola. U.S. Steel President…
by - January 12, 2022 8:59 am
On Covidism
It is said that travel broadens one’s horizons and I believe that is true in virtually every instance. There is always something that can be learned from getting out from…
by - December 19, 2021 12:51 pm
The biggest non-event ever
Do you remember the devastating Dec. 3, 1990, earthquake in the New Madrid Seismic Zone? You know, the one that claimed thousands of lives, destroyed billions of dollars of infrastructure…
by - December 13, 2021 6:02 pm
Truck driver shortage key part of supply chain problem
It is never more evident than during the Christmas season that Americans want what they want when they want it, often without any notion of how it gets there. Now,…
by - November 10, 2021 6:15 pm
Santa and the supply chain
We won’t have Black Friday for more than a month, but already we’re being urged to part with our green now. Reuters is reporting that Americans are expected to spend…
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…
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…