by July 6, 2012 2:29 pm
-U.S. fiscal fix can’t wait
Today’s (July 6) dismal jobs report is another sobering reminder that the U.S. economy is stuck, if not headed in reverse. Employers added a modest 80,000 jobs in June, falling…
by July 6, 2012 2:29 pm
-Today’s (July 6) dismal jobs report is another sobering reminder that the U.S. economy is stuck, if not headed in reverse. Employers added a modest 80,000 jobs in June, falling…
by July 5, 2012 6:35 pm
-Will the real U.S. Supreme Court please stand up? Impeccable liberal sources, including the editorial page of the New York Times, insist that the court is radically activist and conservative,…
by July 4, 2012 3:15 pm
-As Americans pause this Fourth of July to reflect on their independence, it’s worth casting a thought across the Atlantic. One story from America’s founding era, in particular, keeps reminding…
by July 1, 2012 5:59 pm
-In 2005, just two years after Whirlpool gave us a clear hint about the future of its Fort Smith manufacturing operations, business and community leaders in the Fort Smith region…
by July 1, 2012 12:58 pm
-“it’s constitutional. Bitches” (Punctuated as tweeted) Just in case you missed it, the above quote was tweeted Thursday by Patrick Gaspard, the Democratic National Committee’s Executive Director, when he learned…
by July 1, 2012 12:48 pm
-A decided minority of Arkansas Third District voters do not much care for U.S. Rep. Steve Womack’s Republican politics. Opponents see little besides a hyper-partisan who will someday look to…
by June 28, 2012 4:55 pm
-Judges can say things politicians can’t. So it was left to U.S. Chief Justice John G. Roberts to use the three-letter word for the individual mandate that President Barack Obama…
by June 26, 2012 4:38 pm
-Mitt Romney’s running mate is going to rank very low on the list of what’s on voters’ minds in November. Political journalists are obsessing about whom he’ll pick anyway, because…
by June 24, 2012 6:57 pm
-There during Thursday’s (June 21) taping of The City Wire show were two examples of what we likely could use more of in Little Rock. Sen. Jake Files, a Republican…
by June 24, 2012 6:56 pm
-Conventional wisdom has it that Congressional hearings rarely shed new light and devolve quickly into a stream of sound bites that members can use in their re- election campaigns. By…
by June 19, 2012 6:14 pm
-The U.S. prides itself as the beacon of democracy, but it’s very likely no U.S. president has ever been elected by a majority of American adults. It’s our own fault…
by June 18, 2012 7:05 pm
-“Tell me something cheerful” is how Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, has started most of the conversations I’ve had with him over the past 20 years….
by June 17, 2012 10:48 pm
-In explaining why individualized trash collection preference is a right of citizenship beyond the whims of collective governance, Fort Smith Director Philip Merry Jr. says the city is not necessarily…
by June 17, 2012 3:14 pm
-A friend related to me a conversation he had a few years back with a yellow pages salesman. The salesman was explaining to him the difference, in his opinion, between…
by June 17, 2012 3:02 pm
-This past June 5 saw the Fayetteville City Council take action on a resolution supporting the “Move to Amend” coalition that is campaigning for passage of a constitutional amendment to…
by June 12, 2012 3:03 pm
-If only banking were boring again, as it was from the end of World War II to about 1980, our financial system and economy would be in much better shape,…
by June 10, 2012 9:05 pm
-If Fort Smith is to be successful in developing amenities and infrastructure that support diversified job and wage growth in the region, public-private partnerships (P3s) will be vital. The number…
by June 10, 2012 12:03 pm
-This year’s presidential race is considered a tossup by both sides, and unforeseen events could prove determinative: contagion from the European economic crisis, war or terrorism. The largest imponderable is…
by June 6, 2012 11:34 am
-This year’s legislative session included a number of major policy victories that will save taxpayer dollars, deliver more efficient government services and create an environment more conducive to job creation….
by June 3, 2012 5:07 pm
-The debate in Fort Smith between automated and non-automated trash collection with 2,402 households among all 28,673 households is instructive in that it well serves as an obvious symptom of…