by October 4, 2009 7:18 pm
-Parts to play
Officials with the city of Fort Smith and Sebastian County are now publicly committed to develop what we hope is a fiscally and physically responsible plan for the expansion and…
by October 4, 2009 7:18 pm
-Officials with the city of Fort Smith and Sebastian County are now publicly committed to develop what we hope is a fiscally and physically responsible plan for the expansion and…
by September 27, 2009 6:24 pm
-What follows is an expression of frustration resulting from my instinctual convictions related to capitalism. Which is to say I’m getting a little unnerved about all these smarty-pants who have…
by September 20, 2009 11:02 pm
-It’s only fitting that the first meeting with Peter Lewis was at a restaurant. This young man was full of confidence, handsome, had just recently spent months traveling Europe, and…
by September 13, 2009 2:44 pm
-We now find in our recent Fort Smith municipal history two unfortunate incidents resulting in an ugly racial undercurrent to our governance discussions. There is the episode in which a…
by September 6, 2009 3:15 pm
-Editor’s Note: This essay was written by Michael Tilley in September 2002 as a reflection on the first anniversary of the 9/11 horror. Link here for its 2007 publication. The…
by August 30, 2009 5:53 pm
-Sandwiched between the recent recollections of national basketball championships and the great nationally-televised football event with Texas comes an artful 44-year reunion between John Bell Jr. and the University of…
by August 23, 2009 5:26 pm
-In less than a month, he’s reminded a black man that he serves but one “master,” and has labeled as thieves the approximately 900 employees of the city of Fort…
by August 16, 2009 9:17 pm
-A note from Tilley to Kind Readers: Please pardon the repeating of an essay that first appeared in this space Dec. 3, 2008. It was my intent to capture the…
by August 9, 2009 7:31 pm
-Let’s talk about racism. In case you haven’t heard, the U.S. now has a black president. The top four favorite male sports stars in the U.S. are black. The top…
by August 1, 2009 4:10 pm
-“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-face for the urge to rule it.”— H.L. Mencken Recently toured several of the fine museums in Chicago. The city of…
by July 26, 2009 7:53 pm
-The Fort Smith Board of Directors began live telecasts of their voting meetings at their July 21 meeting. Those interested in watching the sausage being made can tune to cable…
by July 19, 2009 6:25 pm
-Editor’s note: This column first was first published Feb 1, 2004, by the fine folks at the Times Record. However, the first clean link to the paper with this column…
by July 12, 2009 7:48 pm
-Most folks who speak during meetings of the Fort Smith board of directors talk much and say little. Including the members of the board. Especially members of the board. David…
by July 5, 2009 1:40 pm
-The City Wire was able to obtain an advance copy of the more than 1-inch thick document outlining Fort Smith City Administrator Dennis Kelly’s proposed changes to city government policies,…
by June 28, 2009 9:21 pm
-In this space last week we asked the question, “What now? As a region, as a people and as a collection of cities, What-Fricking-Now? What are the collective goals of…
by June 21, 2009 9:12 pm
-During a March 2000 speech at the University of Ozarks in Clarksville, popular English author, science historian and television producer James Burke told the crowd that in matters big and…
by June 14, 2009 2:21 pm
-(With apologies to serious poets, poetry lovers and/or the wide world of literature.) Here in this valley where the wide river rolls we live and we love and we laugh…
by June 7, 2009 5:47 pm
-At some risk of redundancy, what follows is a repeat of points made in a past essay. The 10 items are a broad set of parameters intended to guide yours…
by May 31, 2009 7:25 pm
-It was hard to stay focused. The important folks around the table were talking important things about how to greatly improve the way in which businesses and industries ship their…
by May 24, 2009 8:07 pm
-Editor’s note: This column was written by Michael Tilley in January 2005. Link here for the original post. There comes a time to sell stuff long ago tucked away in…