by The City Wire staff - 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 The City Wire staff - 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 The City Wire staff - 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 The City Wire staff - 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 The City Wire staff - 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 The City Wire staff - 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 The City Wire staff - 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 The City Wire staff - 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 The City Wire staff - 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 The City Wire staff - 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 The City Wire staff - 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 The City Wire staff - 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 The City Wire staff - 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 The City Wire staff - 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 The City Wire staff - 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….
by The City Wire staff - August 16, 2015 3:31 pm
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
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
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
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 - August 2, 2015 2:27 pm
I like to think I am an astute observer of the human scene, that I have a good memory, and my knowledge base is rooted in sound reasoning and empirical…
