Guest Commentary

by The City Wire staff - August 30, 2015 7:54 pm

Climate change is here

“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 The City Wire staff - August 16, 2015 3:31 pm

The politics of A.P.E.

In 2013, right after she stepped down as U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton enjoyed a high approval rating from the American people. Her trust level was on solid ground….

by The City Wire staff - August 11, 2015 5:39 pm

10 ideas to reduce student loan debt

On Monday, Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton proposed increasing federal spending by $350 billion to provide college student debt relief. Here are a few ways to lower student debt for…

by The City Wire staff - August 9, 2015 11:32 pm

A visit to Arkansas City

For five miles east of McGehee, Highway 4 is as straight as the Delta farmland is flat. Headed toward the Mississippi River, you see the levee rising in the distance….

by The City Wire staff - August 4, 2015 11:24 am

Avoiding the escalation

Another police officer is dead, murdered in the streets of Memphis, Tennessee. Only a few weeks ago, two police officers were gunned down on the streets of Jackson, Mississippi. Murders…

by The City Wire staff - July 29, 2015 3:02 pm

The secret embezzler

I have a particular dislike for bookkeepers and accountants who commit fraud and embezzle from their employers. The act is vile and the person committing the fraud betrays their employer’s…

by The City Wire staff - July 27, 2015 3:16 pm

The economic benefit of the arts

Civic leaders increasingly recognize that the arts, creative place-making and arts tourism not only provide social and cultural benefits to our community but economic benefits as well. We need only…

by The City Wire staff - July 5, 2015 2:02 pm

Our naïve idea about Iraq

Some Iraqis are now beginning to say the country should be divided into regions composed of Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds. The Kurds have pretty much gone their own way, the…

by The City Wire staff - July 1, 2015 6:26 pm

A tough sale for Huckabee 2.0

Recent political history has it that the Democratic Party tends to “fall in love” with its presidential nominees, while the Republican Party tends to “fall in line” behind the presumptive…

by The City Wire staff - June 30, 2015 7:25 pm

Lessons learned from a bad experience

When businesses become customers of other businesses, the interactions between the companies can be very instructive, providing each company with “how to” lessons, and many times with “how not to”…

by The City Wire staff - June 28, 2015 6:16 pm

A call for judicial independence

Despite the talk radio criticism facing him today, United States Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is a conservative justice and quickly becoming one of the greatest figures in modern…

by The City Wire staff - June 28, 2015 6:13 pm

A tale of two flags

The murder of nine people inside Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., by a 21-year-old addict and self-identified white supremacist, has re-ignited a debate over the Confederate battle…