by - June 22, 2014 8:53 pm
Walmart and lottery tickets
If I were a small convenience store owner enjoying the nuances of selling a plethora of Arkansas Lottery tickets, a pack of Marlboros, a Slim Jim or two, an occasional…
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by - June 22, 2014 8:32 pm
Trust and city government
Trusting people has its risk as well as its reward. Business works best when you can trust your employees to show up to work and work hard and when you…
by - June 19, 2014 8:00 pm
Just don’t call him a Savior
A simple and smart-alecky assessment could be that singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson ran out of beer before he ran out of herb and converted an empty Bud can into a bong…
by - June 16, 2014 4:56 pm
A legal mess
A rarely used procedural action taken June 11 by the Fort Smith Board of Directors to kill a review of the city’s long-term relationship with and recent billings from the…
by - June 15, 2014 6:21 pm
What did we gain in Iraq?
In May, my wife Cara and I had the pleasure of seeing her son graduate from the Army Academy at West Point. To watch so many young men and women…
by - June 15, 2014 6:04 pm
Floyd becomes the top Baptist
The Reverend Ronnie Floyd of Springdale this week became the third Arkansas-based pastor history to lead one of the largest U.S. religious denominations, the 15.7 million Southern Baptists. Floyd, back…
by - June 8, 2014 9:55 pm
Would you invest in your business?
Many new business owners open for business with limited capital but unlimited dreams. If the market is cruel to their business concept, their limited capital becomes a capital shortage that…
by - June 4, 2014 9:31 pm
College student perspective
Now that May has ended thousands of newly minted college graduates in Arkansas will join the workforce – or at least they will try to join the workforce. Two recent…
by - June 1, 2014 5:30 pm
Isbell the AMP and You
He dang sure shouldn’t be, but Jason Isbell was an afterthought on the promo stuff announcing a July 7 concert at the AMP in Northwest Arkansas. Isbell would probably be…
by - June 1, 2014 4:51 pm
Asa goes bold on fighting crime
It came as no surprise this past week when Republican gubernatorial candidate Asa Hutchinson, a former federal prosecutor, unveiled a plan to ratchet up efforts to curtail violent crime and…
by - May 29, 2014 5:41 pm
Arkansas’ income-parity struggle
A long-standing economic goal of Arkansas officials is to achieve 100% income parity with the United States. The goal is ambitious – overly so in the short-term but possible long-term…
by - May 28, 2014 7:15 pm
A hardware industry look-ahead
Sales of hardware related products look to be a sweet spot for retailers and suppliers in the months and years ahead. The recent announcement that U.S. regulators are backing off…
by - May 26, 2014 5:05 pm
Battling with documentation
Growing up my mother often would warn me as an inducement to behave or face the consequences, “Be sure your sins will find you out.” I have found throughout my…
by - May 26, 2014 4:49 pm
Arkansas voter polling insights
When conceiving this column a few months ago, we planned to make the space allotted us on this website a place where we explain the strategic motivations behind the actions…
by - May 18, 2014 11:34 am
Naïve much?
This news about Whirlpool officials indirectly admitting new details about pollution at their shuttered Fort Smith manufacturing plant tells us more about certain members of the Fort Smith Board of…
by - May 17, 2014 7:02 pm
The upcoming other side of history
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The odds are that Arkansas legislators supporting an effort to reinforce…
by - May 14, 2014 1:33 pm
The politics of judicial precedence
Time and again we read in the news or hear from media reports that a single federal judge or a judicial panel of three or at most five, have taken…
by - May 12, 2014 12:09 pm
Sex, drugs, and the demise of our tax code
CPAs regularly field questions on why the United States income tax laws are so screwed up and unfair. Everybody has their own opinion, but I tend to accept the opinion…
by - May 11, 2014 1:11 pm
McDaniel’s personal and professional split
There will be much more to be written and spoken about in the days ahead of the courtroom performances of Dustin McDaniel, our state’s lame-duck Democrat elected, and two-term Attorney…
by - May 11, 2014 10:46 am
A fortunate son
A lot has changed in Mom’s world. The world in 1949, the year of her birth, was a crazy place. Europe was rebuilding its continental economy, the Soviets were rattling…