by - December 13, 2023 5:14 pm
Asa’s resolve
If we’ve learned nothing else about former Gov. Asa Hutchinson in the past several months, it’s that he’s demonstrated considerable resolve and his own sense of timing. In January 2022,…
Author: Paul Holmes
by - November 16, 2023 10:18 am
Bigger than Bill Clinton
I don’t think I’ve seen as much pre-planning going on around here since then-President Bill Clinton visited Arkansas State University in 1995. And the Clinton visit happened according to a…
by - October 12, 2023 3:28 pm
New steel line opens at Big River facility in Osceola
The world is changing, US Steel president and CEO Dave Burritt said Thursday (Oct. 12), and perhaps it is no more evident than in the new line that can produce…
by - September 28, 2023 11:36 am
Space issues
It’s a reasonable assumption that humans have been looking skyward since they first were aware of their place on this planet. Given our fascination with all things celestial, it’s no…
by - September 5, 2023 8:09 pm
What happens in Europe doesn’t stay in Europe
Here’s a quick quiz, for entertainment and amusement purposes only. Prizes are definitely not a part of this project. The rules are simple: no cheating by using Wikipedia or other…
by - July 14, 2023 7:30 am
Fire and nice
We went to Cleveland in June. There, it’s in print and I don’t deny it. Given Cleveland’s geography and climate, it seems a fair question for a Southerner to ask…
by - May 28, 2023 9:40 am
Turning the corner
It is said that a first-time visitor to New York City from Arkansas, mouth agape as he stared skyward at a forest of construction cranes towering over a maze of…
by - May 2, 2023 5:56 pm
All the buzz
Spring is heading straight into summer in our little corner of the earth. Even without a calendar telling us that spring arrived officially on March 20 and will last until…
by - April 13, 2023 6:29 pm
Of disease and ‘dogs’
It has been a long time since I saw the words raccoon dog used in a headline. However, that term has surfaced again and in an unexpected connotation. We in…
by - March 9, 2023 6:47 am
The wing thing
Remember when your mom or grandmother would cook up the big Sunday dinner that included fried chicken most often sourced from the backyard coop (farm-to-table in the purest sense), mashed…
by - February 13, 2023 5:45 pm
E.C. Barton chairman Niel Crowson steps down
Niel Crowson of Jonesboro, long-standing chairman of the board and past president of E.C. Barton and Co., retired as chairman of the board, effective December 2022. Crowson served as president…
by - February 9, 2023 6:18 pm
‘It’s Electrifying’
It’s easy to understand why consumers can become confused by what they see and hear and what their friends say they heard a state’s government or the federal government was…
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…
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…