by - February 22, 2015 11:20 am
The trail money money trail
The Fort Smith Board of Directors may not have had a full battery of information when approving a ballot question seeking voter approval of a plan to spend more than…
Tag: riff raff
by - January 21, 2015 6:05 pm
Shut up and pay up
Let’s consider this mysterious and allegedly absolute cover of confidentiality under which Fort Smith and federal officials discussed the settlement of the city’s Clean Water Act violations – a settlement…
by - January 11, 2015 7:34 pm
7 Fort Smith government moves
Solely for the purpose of providing a window into how Fort Smith city staff and the Board of Directors conduct public business, let’s revisit the process to name the water…
by - January 3, 2015 5:25 pm
Still on the SOB watch
It’s just another day, really. Another week. Another month. Another year, one hopes, above the daisies and dirt. But this calendar shift comes with an unavoidable remembrance that, honestly, best…
by - December 21, 2014 7:15 pm
The big deal about TiFiber
Fort Smith business leaders and officials with the Fort Smith Regional Chamber of Commerce were challenged a few years ago to do a better job connecting with the commercialized technologies…
by - December 12, 2014 5:15 pm
Names that are all wet
The submitted names for the water park being built by Sebastian County and the city of Fort Smith would be Exhibit A if you were to build a case that…
by - November 9, 2014 12:49 pm
The veteran I remember
This week we are to remember the military men and women who served this country — especially those who saw combat and those for whom combat was the last thing…
by - November 5, 2014 9:12 pm
Miss Ada said it could be like this
The discussion of how Arkansas Republicans swept the 2014 election cycle will be woefully incomplete if not wholly inaccurate if it does not include in the opening paragraph this name:…
by - September 21, 2014 5:25 pm
Guess who’s coming to dinner
Some or all members of the Fort Smith Board of Directors often gather at a restaurant following their regularly scheduled voting meetings. The media has not received advanced notice of…
by - September 10, 2014 3:07 pm
Analysis of the analysis
It was September 2013 when the Fort Smith Board of Directors encouraged city staff to do more to incorporate compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles into the city fleet. At the…
by - August 24, 2014 7:34 pm
Do stuff
Comes now Kaitlin Stephens serving as a timely example to students returning to school: Do stuff. Do a lot of stuff. Do a lot of different stuff. Do a lot…
by - August 4, 2014 9:31 pm
Alien-piloted comet may soon destroy Wal-Mart
Like those deranged cult leaders who every so often convince a handful of shaved-head nitwits that the world will end via some cosmic oddity or the loyalty-blinded Razorback fan who…
by - July 21, 2014 5:38 pm
Mayor Corleone?
With Fort Smith city government looking like Petrino’s face the day after his skirt chasing motorcycle trek, some are calling for a new form of municipal governance. Fort Smith has…
by - July 15, 2014 11:20 pm
Discouraged and disappointed
One may admire the perseverance of Fort Smith City Directors Kevin Settle and Mike Lorenz in their effort to quash any discussion of how the city handles its legal needs,…
by - July 13, 2014 5:37 pm
Losing our faith
There are important issues facing America and Arkansas but our two candidates for United States Senate appear to be more concerned with throwing each other under the church bus. The…
by - July 6, 2014 6:44 pm
Reflecting, already
The back and forth advertisements from Arkansas gubernatorial hopefuls Asa Hutchinson and Mike Ross often elicit an emotion a more disciplined journalist would not reveal. And that emotion is this:…
by - July 1, 2014 7:56 pm
Economic stability. Now what?
The corpus of the Fort Smith regional economy is not a fully recovered patient but we should pause to take note of recent positive developments. The developments may offer even…
by - June 19, 2014 8:00 pm
Just don’t call him a Savior
A simple and smart-alecky assessment could be that singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson ran out of beer before he ran out of herb and converted an empty Bud can into a bong…
by - June 1, 2014 5:30 pm
Isbell the AMP and You
He dang sure shouldn’t be, but Jason Isbell was an afterthought on the promo stuff announcing a July 7 concert at the AMP in Northwest Arkansas. Isbell would probably be…
by - May 17, 2014 7:02 pm
The upcoming other side of history
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The odds are that Arkansas legislators supporting an effort to reinforce…