by July 7, 2024 10:21 am
-The science of marketing
If there is one common thread among small business owners I have observed over the past 44 years of my career – especially those who aren’t very successful — it…
by July 7, 2024 10:21 am
-If there is one common thread among small business owners I have observed over the past 44 years of my career – especially those who aren’t very successful — it…
by June 16, 2024 4:03 pm
-As a proud board member of the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority (FCRA), I often find myself engaging with the community, addressing concerns, and providing updates on our progress. Recently, a…
by November 6, 2015 8:25 am
-Editor’s note: Heather Larkin, J.D., is president and CEO of the Arkansas Community Foundation. Opinions, commentary and other essays posted in this space are wholly the view of the author(s)….
by October 18, 2015 4:44 pm
-In a previous post, I wrote on how quickly the world can be plunged into war. World War I is an example of how, in a series of cascading events,…
by October 13, 2015 9:09 pm
-Only a year remains until the Presidential election – the special time that only comes once in a leap year, when us little people choose which person in Washington, D.C….
by October 12, 2015 11:35 am
-Gov. Asa Hutchinson will soon choose a new director for the Department of Human Services (DHS). With the departure of John Selig, there’s opportunity for needed change and restructuring that…
by October 11, 2015 2:55 pm
-I love the outdoors. As the summer weather winds down and the fall leaves turn, there’s no better place to be than right here in Arkansas. We’re known as the…
by October 11, 2015 2:34 pm
-As a Southern Baptist later turned Presbyterian, I don’t follow Pope Politics. I was suspicious and a bit uncomfortable with his appearance before Congress, but I expect that was the…
by October 7, 2015 6:17 pm
-All I really need to know about branding I learned in a cup of coffee. In the beginning, coffee arrived on our shores in unwieldy, roughly marked burlap sacks stacked…
by October 4, 2015 1:25 pm
-One of the puzzling developments that have emerged over the course of the current presidential campaign is the lackluster performance of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and that of former…
by October 1, 2015 8:03 pm
-Democrats fawn over John Brummett, could care less about Conner Eldridge, and still groan at the mention of Tom Cotton. Those are my takeaways after participating in the Talk Business…
by September 21, 2015 6:39 pm
-There’s been plenty of good news about the Arkansas economy lately. More Arkansans are trying to work and more are finding work when they look, according to recently released numbers….
by September 20, 2015 7:22 pm
-What does the 21st century hold for our young people? How do we prepare them for an unpredictable and unprecedented future in a global society? To begin to answer these pressing…
by September 20, 2015 6:53 pm
-This year, we worked hard to fund four new Career Centers in Ashdown, Clarksville, Mountain Home and Paris, Arkansas. This gives us more than 32 Career Centers in Arkansas. These…
by September 16, 2015 8:03 pm
-I’ll never forget what one of the best public school teachers I ever knew said about performance programs and those results. “If I had taken the career path to follow…
by September 14, 2015 1:58 pm
-We moved my mom and step-dad back to Arkansas from Amarillo, Texas, a couple of years ago so they would be closer to my brother, sister, and me (not to…
by September 10, 2015 10:39 pm
-Two events this month feature crucial aspects of Fort Smith’s social history. Saturday, (Sept. 12), the 1865 Council of Fort Smith will be featured, and Thursday, Sept. 24, the role…
by September 7, 2015 4:35 pm
-The greatest threat to America’s small businesses is terrorism – domestic terrorism. If you are a business owner, this isn’t news. It has been reality for decades. It just gets…
by August 30, 2015 7:54 pm
-“Wow, the water sure looks high.” My wife said this as we were visiting our hometown of St. Augustine, Fla, this summer. We were on Matanzas Bay, separated from the…
by August 17, 2015 6:07 pm
-I spent this past Sunday afternoon reading a mystery. It wasn’t Agatha Christie. It was the City of Fort Smith, Arkansas Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the Year Ended Dec….