by - June 16, 2013 12:46 pm
Harvel’s transition
The news this week of the December 2013 retirement of Paul Harvel as the CEO of the Fort Smith Regional Chamber of Commerce reflected this outgoing executive’s niche for planning….
Tag: Maylon Rice
by - June 9, 2013 5:28 pm
Mr. Sam’s meeting metamorphosis
Like much of small town America, the circus comes to town only once a year. That’s what Wal-Mart shareholders and Northwest Arkansas have come to expect each June. Just like…
by - May 28, 2013 12:07 pm
Notes from the ‘pie box’ fiasco
This past week’s headlines on the fall of Martha Shoffner, the former Arkansas State Treasurer, has ignited the debate on why do Arkansans “need the state offices of Auditor, Treasurer…
by - May 19, 2013 4:44 pm
ABF kudos and ADEQ concerns
The City Wire says don’t forget, as time rolls on in the slow-moving Whirlpool clean-up plan for its former Fort Smith plant site and surrounding residential neighborhood, to ask the…
by - May 11, 2013 2:44 pm
Asa and Brandon
Has Arkansas finally found a candidate for Governor who is camera shy? I seem to recall Asa Hutchinson as a candidate for several offices, U.S. Senate, Attorney General, Congress and…
by - May 5, 2013 2:53 pm
Questions about Halter’s promise
It seemed like a good time and place for Democratic candidate Bill Halter, the “sparkplug promoter” behind the Arkansas Lottery for Scholarships, to inform this local crowd of his gubernatorial…
by - May 15, 2012 5:14 pm
Arkansas House District 85: Rice and Whitaker
The primary battle for the Democratic nomination to the Arkansas House of Representatives District 85 pits challengers Maylon Rice and David Whitaker against one another in a contest for the…