Opinion

Keep your mojo working

Stockman offers tips on how to keep the faith and the passion of that early entrepreneurial energy.

Random Redux

Editor’s note: What follows is an essay originally posted Feb. 1, 2009. Please accept our apology for the repeat. Tilley didn’t have time for anything new as he was competing…

CEO entrepreneurs move at hyper fast speeds

Those same CEOs must learn to delegate decision-making to keep the business moving.

12,000

“But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate … we can not consecrate … we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here,…

‘The Road’ falls short of greatness

Peter says the characters fail to impart the great storytelling and the desperate humanity of the situation.

Scene by Carson: Some Southern Culture for the holiday parties

Ixnay the double-dipping and over imbibing. Control the cleavage. Bring a hostess gift. Have fun. Any questions?

Entrepreneurs need support through the good and the bad

Community assistance for entrepreneurs should not end when the business is started.

The new hospital CEO says …

Folks in the Fort Smith area are so hospitable that they’re likely to forgive Melody Trimble for never having visited Graceland. That Trimble readily admitted — “I drove through but…

Fantastic Mr. Fox delivers humanity without humans

Smarty-pants Peter Lewis reviews an animated movie with words like, “auteur,” “paragon,” and “nefarious.” We’re having him drug-tested. Again.

Acting, directing and synthesis necessary to convert book to film

Without the key ingredients, Peter says a film from book can suck as bad as did “New Moon.”

A compassionate pause

The Fort Smith board of directors on Tuesday (Dec. 1) faces an appeal of a Fort Smith Planning Commission approval of the Community Rescue Mission’s 3,300-square foot dormitory-style housing for…

‘Labor Day’ delivers Henry, tomato soup and fish stick dinners

Henry shares five days of his life at 13 with a depressed mom who finds new love with a convict.

The ‘New Moon’ movie sucks. There, we said it.

Peter notes that when you base a movie on a mediocre book, you get something worse than the book.

Being thankful a key to being healthy

story by Marla Cantrell [email protected] It’s not easy being happy. Authors write bestsellers detailing the search for it. Theme parks are based on it, commercials at Christmas promise to sell…

It’s important to seek to avoid problems before they arise

Stockman forwards 11 ideas on how to best nix common problems in small business startups.

Condolences and gratitude

Let’s first note the recent passing of Birnie Pryor, a kind and successful Fort Smith businessman who was a lifelong supporter of downtown Fort Smith. He was 73. Birnie was…

A unique option for small business funding

Stockman outlines one way a community can raise funds to support entrepreneurial efforts.

It’s time for ‘Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.”

Peter reviews the special screening of a Sundance Film Festival movie that “documents” the effort to learn the true reality of men.

Billy says …

Billy, an old college friend, has taken to renewing our past chats via e-mail. He’s found some measure of amusement watching us folks in the Fort Smith area debate and…

Remembering Raymond and the others

Editor’s note: This essay was first published in November 2002 when I was the business editor of the Times Record. A version of that essay can be found here.) This…