by - April 25, 2017 6:18 pm
There is this guy dressed as a clown singing The Who’s “Pinball Wizard” to the music of Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues.” Genius. America is great again, already. Even if we…
by - April 18, 2017 2:24 pm
It’s been one of those weeks where one feels they drew the short straw on a United Airlines flight. Hell, not even the Luftwaffe had passengers removed by Hitler. Or…
by - April 4, 2017 10:26 pm
Should have been at the gun range this week getting some religion as the Lord R. God intended. What follows are musings that might have occurred between busting caps for…
by - March 19, 2017 5:12 pm
Again we take a few bite size bits from the thoughts that bounce around my head during a regular week. Or an irregular week. Normal seems to have taken an…
by - March 11, 2017 5:37 pm
A lot of stuff rolls through the days and weeks and hyperactive impulsive minds of us enemies of the American people who daily and deftly deliver dishonesty. What follows is…
by - January 1, 2017 10:47 am
Editor’s note: This essay first appeared Dec. 28, 2008, on The City Wire, now Talk Business & Politics. It continues to be an appropriate note to begin a new year….
by - November 20, 2016 11:12 am
Sadness about the loss of such positive energy in this troubled world is natural but please do not be sad for the close friends and family of Patricia Brown, for…
by - November 11, 2016 8:16 am
Editor’s note: This essay about my grandfather, Raymond Evans, was first published November 2002. Raymond Evans died Dec. 6, 2008. There is no expiration on the need to remember Veterans…
by - October 30, 2016 2:50 pm
As a former chamber of commerce employee, Issue 3 is appealing. As an Arkansan interested in good public policy, the appeal wanes. Issue 3 would amend Arkansas’ Constitution “to encourage…
by - September 29, 2016 4:48 pm
Questions hitting the inbox in recent days and weeks have sought opinion on protest by anthem kneeling and amazing depths of Wells Fargo thievery. Let’s throw some marijuana in for…
by - September 5, 2016 11:53 am
They are back. These artists. These people who see and apply amazing visions where entirely too many of us see only brick and block and plaster and nothing and yesterday….
by - July 10, 2016 12:17 pm
The medical marijuana debate will ramp up now that at least one medical marijuana issue is on Arkansas’ November ballot. Let’s hope the debate from all sides has more depth…
by - May 16, 2016 6:27 pm
Carl Geffken, who recently arrived in Fort Smith to be the city’s top boss, may face a bigger chore than filling key management vacancies, or abiding by an estimated $480…
by - May 7, 2016 1:54 pm
Editor’s note: This essay was first posted May 10, 2009. Happy Mother’s Day! ––––––––––––– A lot has changed in Mom’s world. The world in 1949, the year of her birth,…
by - March 27, 2016 7:34 pm
The Fort Smith metro area has good bones. We’re a great people in a great place capable of great progress. We’ve recently seen bubble up a “shift in attitude, in…
by - March 20, 2016 8:54 pm
It’s a helluva thing to have a bunch of attitude thrown in your face and delivered with a hint of swagger and a pinch of pride. Not that puffy pride…
by - March 6, 2016 6:42 pm
It was as if I announced intent to get naked before voting. Or begin to debate, like all the cool kids are doing, penis size. Immediate looks from several poll…
by - February 21, 2016 8:39 pm
The firing of Fort Smith’s sanitation boss and the subsequent “discovery” of savings in the sanitation budget once again require us to compare what we hear from city officials to…
by - February 14, 2016 3:21 pm
One might think even with a superficial knowledge of history and religion we would see the advantage of avoiding God-based government or government-based God. That was the beginning line of…
by - January 31, 2016 5:48 pm
Here we go again with this Fort Smith Convention Center/prepared food tax debate in which room for calm and reasoned analysis is nuked by emotion, half-truths, perception sans context, anecdotal…
