Tag: Maylon Rice

by The City Wire staff - 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….

by The City Wire staff - 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 The City Wire staff - 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 The City Wire staff - 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 The City Wire staff - 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 The City Wire staff - 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…