Guest Commentary

by The City Wire staff - January 5, 2015 9:56 pm

Leaky roof politics

There’s an old joke about a man with a leaky roof. When it rained, he said he couldn’t fix the holes because it was raining. When it wasn’t raining he’d…

by The City Wire staff - January 4, 2015 11:43 pm

Hutchinson and a history lesson

As the inauguration of Asa Hutchinson, Arkansas’ 45th Governor, draws near, there are hints of a central theme emerging for the inauguration which may not be new, but may flavor…

by The City Wire staff - December 28, 2014 6:44 pm

The BIG business of bowl games

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, or one of them, anyway. Wall-to-wall college football bowl games for a full month. Of course, we get stuck with some stinkers…

by The City Wire staff - December 28, 2014 6:40 pm

Statewide trauma system kudos

We talk a lot about how Arkansas’s Payment Improvement Initiative and the Private Option have advanced and are stabilizing our health-care infrastructure. However, it was just six years ago that…

by The City Wire staff - December 28, 2014 6:30 pm

Rutledge’s legal stand

It came as no surprise this week that the soon-to-be Attorney General of Arkansas, Leslie Rutledge, has not changed her mind or her campaign mantra. Her personal and legal steadfastness…

by The City Wire staff - December 23, 2014 5:51 pm

A ‘Merry’ note

The last four years of my life have been filled with such civic education, citizen interaction, addressing private and public sector needs, desires and wants, and have been filled with…

by The City Wire staff - December 21, 2014 4:55 pm

Beebe leaving with a stunning image

This week with little fanfare, Gov. Mike Beebe amid a gathering of friends and holiday well-wishers, unveiled his formal portraiture as the 44th Governor of Arkansas. Have you seen it?…

by The City Wire staff - December 18, 2014 6:25 pm

Atheists and cow walking

The New York Times, earlier this month, reported that there is a movement to get rid of bans in Arkansas and seven states that prohibit atheists from running for public…

by The City Wire staff - December 15, 2014 9:29 pm

Asa’s cool hand

The leadership of the Arkansas House of Representatives convened all new members last week for the Legislative Institute. It’s a weeklong series of events meant to prepare for the approaching…

by The City Wire staff - December 14, 2014 5:40 pm

Asa and his code language

Ella Beth may have told her Pap paw Asa that computer coding was easy. But this week, Asa Hutchinson, aka Pap paw Asa and the Arkansas governor-elect, met some initial…

by The City Wire staff - December 14, 2014 5:23 pm

Political hindsight

Ophthalmologists, optometrists, and other eye care professionals would say that normal vision is 20/20. Based on that fact, an old aphorism stipulates that hindsight is 20/20, meaning we tend to…

by The City Wire staff - December 11, 2014 10:23 pm

Potential perils of name calling

The Iowa State Bar Association released an opinion cautioning attorneys against calling each other unethical. Arkansas attorneys might want to pay attention to what the Iowa State Bar had to…

by The City Wire staff - December 4, 2014 6:22 pm

Shield protection for journalists

Almost as soon as people started reading news on the Internet, a debate sprung up – is an Internet-based journalist a “real” reporter? In Arkansas, at least, that question was…

by The City Wire staff - November 30, 2014 10:06 pm

Ferdinand’s ghost

Before the year is out, it is worthwhile to remember that 100 ago, on June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were murdered by a Serb nationalist in…