by - September 27, 2015 8:05 pm
Let’s support the Future School
The Fort Smith Public School Board on Monday (Sept. 28) is expected to vote on support or opposition to a proposed public charter school in the district. The City Wire…
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by The City Wire staff - August 24, 2015 10:17 pm
That is all
The last line in the 1970 hit movie “M.A.S.H” is simple and emotionally fitting: “That is all.” It now seems a simple and fitting response to a speech Monday night…
by The City Wire staff - August 2, 2015 6:53 pm
The FOP should end its investigation effort
A decision by the Fort Smith Fraternal Order of Police to “investigate” certain members of the Fort Smith Board of Directors is as understandable as it is unfortunate. The action…
by The City Wire staff - May 25, 2015 6:04 pm
The ties that bind software and social policy
Governor Asa Hutchinson successfully pushed a computer coding program for public schools during the recently concluded Legislative Session. Hutchinson seeks to crank out 6,000 computer coders each year. The program…
by The City Wire staff - May 4, 2015 11:03 pm
Vote FOR streets, and FOR trails
The City Wire encourages Fort Smith voters to renew the 1% street tax program for another 10 years, and to vote for using 5% of the street tax to fund…
by The City Wire staff - March 11, 2015 12:15 pm
They called him ‘stupid’
Considering the busy schedule of many who read The City Wire, it borders on unreasonable to ask you to watch a 25-minute video produced by a junior high student in…
by The City Wire staff - December 10, 2014 9:06 pm
A note on repeal
What happened in Fayetteville Tuesday was not necessarily a loss for those seeking more definitive equal protections, and may prove but a short lived win for those who believed such…
by The City Wire staff - October 22, 2014 8:35 pm
Character actors
From the “By Their Actions People/Groups Will Show Their Character” category, the Fort Smith Board of Directors is willing to spend thousands of dollars in legal fees and risk a…
by The City Wire staff - October 12, 2014 2:34 pm
Let’s get on this horse
Now comes the Steel Horse Rally holding great potential to become an event annually drawing thousands of motorcycle enthusiasts to a downtown Fort Smith that through private and public development…
by The City Wire staff - August 17, 2014 4:01 pm
Don’t blame the voters
This notion that a majority of Fort Smithians are anti-progress and aren’t willing to pay the bill for socio-economic improvements is absurd and an unfortunate and ill-considered response among those…
by The City Wire staff - August 6, 2014 7:41 pm
Library needs money, but not a 200% increase
The Fort Smith Public Library is deserving of a funding increase so it can better serve the community, but The City Wire does not endorse the proposal to increase millage…
by The City Wire staff - July 20, 2014 9:36 pm
Another historic marker for Northwest Arkansas
It may just initially be two trucks from a municipal water department, but the move this past week by Springdale officials toward acquiring and testing utility vehicles powered by compressed…
by The City Wire staff - June 16, 2014 4:56 pm
A legal mess
A rarely used procedural action taken June 11 by the Fort Smith Board of Directors to kill a review of the city’s long-term relationship with and recent billings from the…
by The City Wire staff - May 18, 2014 11:34 am
Naïve much?
This news about Whirlpool officials indirectly admitting new details about pollution at their shuttered Fort Smith manufacturing plant tells us more about certain members of the Fort Smith Board of…
by The City Wire staff - April 20, 2014 4:52 pm
Too much Wal-Mart?
Fortunately, The City Wire doesn’t receive many substantive complaints about our coverage. We certainly get our fair share of nitpicking from The Gallery of the Never Satisfied, of which our…
by The City Wire staff - April 6, 2014 10:12 pm
Finding strength through discomfort
Chuck Marohn’s recent three-hour presentation delivered to more than 160 Arkansas elected and development officials – including between 15 and 20 such persons from the Fort Smith-Greenwood-Van Buren area –…
by The City Wire staff - February 16, 2014 10:16 pm
Scholarship offer for ‘Strong Towns’ workshop
The Applied Sustainability Center at the University of Arkansas is offering such an intriguing workshop that The City Wire and Potts & Company have partnered to provide scholarships to 10…
by The City Wire staff - February 2, 2014 6:50 pm
What will Doug Do?
When 47-year-old Doug McMillon became the new Wal-Mart Stores CEO on Feb. 1, he began a job responsible for more than 2.2 million employees and is expected to provide direction…
by The City Wire staff - January 26, 2014 4:57 pm
Losing an historian
To those who love this state’s written history, they will know the name, Dr. Walter Lee Brown. The great and long-time editor/leader of the Arkansas Historical Association, died this past…
by The City Wire staff - January 4, 2014 1:56 pm
Another call for Darr to resign
The reckless, sophomoric and illegal actions of Lt. Gov. Mark Darr (R) have served to destroy his career in Arkansas politics. What Darr must now decide is if he wants…