by - December 28, 2014 6:40 pm
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 - December 28, 2014 6:30 pm
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 - December 23, 2014 5:51 pm
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 - December 22, 2014 2:52 pm
Much will be made of the upcoming General Assembly, and time truly will tell if Republicans can lead the state following a clean sweep last November. There will be plots…
by - December 21, 2014 7:03 pm
This past Friday, President Obama signed into law the Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014. Do you remember those Bush tax cuts that were retroactively extended on Jan. 2, 2013…
by - December 21, 2014 4:55 pm
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 - December 18, 2014 6:25 pm
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 - December 15, 2014 9:29 pm
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 - December 14, 2014 5:40 pm
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 - December 14, 2014 5:23 pm
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 - December 11, 2014 10:23 pm
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 - December 7, 2014 5:37 pm
Each year December brings Christmas and uncertainty in the permanency of the Internal Revenue Code. While Christmas brings a frenzy of consumer spending, exhausted parents, overeating, and renewed family feuds…
by - December 4, 2014 6:22 pm
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 - December 1, 2014 3:52 pm
Ever since I was in college in the 1980s, it seems that the popular notion was that there are too many licensed attorneys running loose. The notion, of course, is…
by - November 30, 2014 10:06 pm
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…
by - November 23, 2014 8:26 pm
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. This is one of those proverbs that I heard decades ago and it just stuck in my memory. I’m sure it…
by - November 17, 2014 8:12 pm
It took about five years, but the American Bar Association (ABA) released an opinion stating that prosecuting attorneys shouldn’t give their letterhead to bill collectors. According to a formal opinion…
by - November 16, 2014 5:49 pm
During my last year in office, I have visited many annual events and celebrated many annual traditions with a sense of nostalgia. At each of these occasions, I was acutely…
by - November 16, 2014 5:03 pm
The natural state of economic affairs in a market economy revolves around the interaction between supply and demand. When there is competition between suppliers over a share of the demand…
by - November 5, 2014 3:23 pm
I speak to a number of groups week in, week out. Often, I share my analysis and observations about the business and political landscape of Arkansas from what I hope…
