by - December 18, 2012 6:28 pm
Previous articles (Parts 1 and 2) have discussed several challenges and opportunities related to the how and where of rebuilding the U.S. cattle herd. This article discusses the most important…
by - December 16, 2012 8:10 pm
The reaction by politicians and pundits to this horrible-beyond-description tragedy in Connecticut exhausted my reserve tank of benefit-of-the-doubt. Severed fully was any last string of belief in the credibility and…
by - December 12, 2012 6:50 pm
Poor Mark Emmert. The president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association has had to stand idly by as college football reconstitutes itself around him. Rutgers and the University of Maryland…
by - December 12, 2012 12:03 pm
In order to give an analysis of the state of tourism in Arkansas, it’s almost imperative to look back and see how far we’ve come in the last forty or…
by - December 10, 2012 11:16 am
A dramatic jump in demand for corn, which began in late 2006, has resulted in sharply higher prices for all crops in the U.S. A simple average across the eight…
by - December 9, 2012 8:12 pm
In this effort to reverse a decision to remove A-10 war planes now attached to the Fort Smith-based 188th Fighter Wing, much has been made of the unwillingness or inability…
by - December 9, 2012 2:44 pm
I was riding in a taxicab last Tuesday night in Manhattan after seeing the Broadway musical "Wicked." My wife, her sister, and a friend were riding in the back seat,…
by - December 6, 2012 12:33 pm
Can we rebuild the beef cow herd? That was the question posed to me by a producer in response to my recent article suggesting that two years of drought liquidation,…
by - December 3, 2012 10:55 am
Years from now when they write the story of Northwest Arkansas’s economic boom, research will show that it was ignited by folks we have come to know as “the vendors.” Consumer…
by - December 2, 2012 8:38 pm
The fire at Bangladesh’s Tazreen garment factory might not have killed more than 100 people if the facility had had half as many fire escapes as there have been evasions…
by - December 2, 2012 4:57 pm
We’re busy people, you and me. With responsibilities and schedules constantly starring us in the face, we don’t have time to consider the implications of life, either the serious or…
by - November 29, 2012 8:23 pm
While “fiscal cliff” negotiations may produce high drama for journalists and partisans as well as desperate uncertainty from Main Street to Wall Street, they are an absolute gold mine for…
by - November 25, 2012 8:56 pm
This continued effort by a few members of the Fort Smith Board of Directors to micromanage city operations is troublesome, puzzling and frustrating. Let’s recap. The Fort Smith Board over…
by - November 25, 2012 7:24 pm
Regional political, business and civic leaders in Benton and Washington counties appear to speak the same language with respect to socio-economic development. It’s silly to think they read from the…
by - November 25, 2012 2:58 pm
Let me apologize up front for writing a somewhat technical article. However I’ve been watching journalists and commentators for most of 2012 reporting on the battle over tax policy between…
by - November 19, 2012 10:43 am
Talk of secession has returned. Is that because people enjoy acting like children, so upset about certain, recent election results that they prefer to engage in la-la land wishes possessing…
by - November 13, 2012 6:35 pm
For most of the past century, the U.S. and continental Europe have followed different paths. Social Democrats often ran European governments, which typically taxed and spent a greater share of…
by - November 11, 2012 5:11 pm
This week we are to remember the military men and women who served this country — especially those who saw combat and those for whom combat was the last thing…
by - November 11, 2012 4:56 pm
A couple of major events happened last week. The one event everybody knows about is that President Obama was re-elected. The other event that nobody cares about but me is…
by - November 5, 2012 6:40 pm
In this month containing the Thanksgiving holiday, folks on Facebook have taken to listing something each day for which they are thankful. Of the few friends on my little page,…
