by April 4, 2022 4:26 pm
-Let’s keep investing in Jonesboro’s bright future
Nearly three decades ago, my life began at St. Bernard’s Medical Center, and I have been living in Jonesboro ever since. I have been blessed with two children, also born…
by April 4, 2022 4:26 pm
-Nearly three decades ago, my life began at St. Bernard’s Medical Center, and I have been living in Jonesboro ever since. I have been blessed with two children, also born…
by April 3, 2022 9:15 am
-This time, says Jerry Morgan of the Jonesboro Advertising and Promotion Commission, it is going to happen. It is the construction of a multi-sports complex in Jonesboro, the largest city…
by March 30, 2022 4:05 pm
-Notorious conman Victor Lustig was inspired for his next great con while passing through France in 1925. Lustig read a local Parisian newspaper article that noted the ever-increasing cost burden…
by March 20, 2022 9:11 am
-Most everyone understands homebuying and building got more complicated than usual over the past couple of years as labor, supply and inventory shortages became commonplace. In many ways, those shortages…
by March 16, 2022 9:59 am
-The television ad for an Arkansas GOP candidate for a federal office blasts, “Babies, Borders, Bullets.” The complex is oversimplified because, you know, don’t think; be enraged. Be alarmed. And…
by March 13, 2022 10:02 am
-Over $8 million is headed to Arkansas in 2022 under the new National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program to build a national electric vehicle (EV) charging network. Now the scramble…
by March 9, 2022 5:55 pm
-In the days when the Arkansas General Assembly met in regular sessions only every other year, I was obligated by the news outlets that employed me to ask local legislators…
by March 8, 2022 6:30 pm
-I’ve got a date this summer. It’s not a date about which I’m terribly excited. In fact, I’m not looking forward to it at all, but I know it’s my…
by March 6, 2022 8:56 am
-Electric vehicle adoption is not a question of “If it will occur”, but “How fast it will occur?”, which is becoming blatantly apparent from product buzz on both the public…
by March 2, 2022 9:01 am
-Across America, but particularly in Northwest Arkansas, we are in an unprecedented boom period of growth and expansion. Everything looks good. The Northwest Arkansas metro unemployment rate is only 1.5%….
by February 27, 2022 3:18 pm
-Self-recognizing a hubris-induced mistake and turning to humility-driven corrective collaboration often results in a better outcome. So it is with the Fort Smith Board of Directors and their collective pivot…
by February 24, 2022 11:18 am
-For various reasons, fewer and fewer family farms are passing on to the next generation. Recent economic, weather and political events have certainly set forth a bumpy road for those…
by February 15, 2022 11:54 am
-Arkansas deserves a budget – and elected leaders – who value this state and all her people. We have to ask ourselves, does the budget Gov. Asa Hutchinson proposed at…
by February 14, 2022 11:19 am
-Jan. 28 marked National Data Privacy Day. With companies like Google previously announcing the end of cookies and Facebook continuously under a microscope for its data practices, data privacy is…
by February 13, 2022 3:02 pm
-I’m often accused by my friends of using 10 words when two will do. OK, I’m guilty. So in an effort to mend my loquacious ways, I’ll focus for the…
by February 11, 2022 8:46 am
-The 2022 State of Talent Optimization Report is out, and the results are shouting. The Great Resignation (aka, The Big Quit) has dominated headlines. Workers are tired and frustrated, now…
by February 10, 2022 5:13 pm
-Every year, a new class of leaders from the Mississippi River Delta and Alabama Black Belt come together to hone their leadership skills as fellows of the Delta Leadership Institute…
by February 9, 2022 8:18 am
-Arkansas businesses across the industry spectrum have long-faced a well-known workforce problem: an increasing percentage of their highly technical-skilled employees are at or nearing retirement age and an adequate pipeline…
by February 3, 2022 9:59 am
-I spent a lot of time growing up in the school library. For reasons smacking of irony, that was where they sent girls who “talked too much” in class. So…
by February 1, 2022 9:08 pm
-I’m not really much on surprises, although I do like the kind when you find some cash in a jacket that you haven’t worn in months. Opinions on surprises such…