Riff Raff, Opinions/Editorials

A week for job news

This week, Arkansas landed the largest economic-development project in its history. Big River Steel plans to build a $1.1 billion steel mill near Osceola that will employ 525 people. The plant will make steel for auto-, oil-and-gas and electrical-energy industries.

Fri, 02/01/2013 - 2:17pm

A violent hall pass

Whether we should allow guns into our places of worship is as much a test of the faith and goodwill we put into our communities as it is how far each of us is willing to go to protect our friends, family and self from the worrisome thought that danger might someday inhibit even God’s home on eart

Sun, 01/27/2013 - 12:57pm

The debates begin

• Senate Report: Week 1 review

Mon, 01/21/2013 - 1:10pm

Staying under 50

An obstacle to small business growth beginning in 2014 is the provision of the Affordable Care Act that requires businesses with more than 50 full-time equivalent employees to provide their employees health insurance or pay a stiff penalty.

Sun, 01/20/2013 - 6:36pm

The confidence factor

Confidence is a funny thing.

Thu, 01/17/2013 - 6:26pm

To hell with political parties

The movers, shakers, entrepreneurs, job creators and individual Americans have become the pawns of the federal government.

Washington is displaying the most inept leadership, anti-business environment and confusion that I have experienced in my business career.

Tue, 01/15/2013 - 7:34am

The Session begins

After all the talking, scheming, and planning, it is time to begin. Monday marks the first day of the 89th General Assembly, and it will look quite different from anything before at the Arkansas State Capitol.

Mon, 01/14/2013 - 2:43pm

Cotton's politics

The shiny new U.S. Rep. Tom Cotton, who with a Republican label represents Arkansas’ expansive and politically diverse 4th Congressional District, isn’t making friends within the national media and what remains of the liberal media in Arkansas.

Sun, 01/13/2013 - 8:29am

Cotton’s hypocrisy

Is it possible to practice hypocrisy without being a hypocrite?

Answer: Certainly, yes.

Sun, 01/13/2013 - 8:13am

Teenage politics

The older of the young ladies in the Fort Smith branch of the Tilley family is in the process of morphing into a teenager.

There is a new sense of empathy for the fictional family of Gregor Samsa.

Sun, 01/06/2013 - 6:24pm

Are you an ID theft contributor?

Give me your name, address, birth date, and Social Security number and I can become you. That is identity theft. If I can get your credit card or your bank account number, I can then have a payday.

Sun, 01/06/2013 - 6:09pm

Guys like us

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 serves by being unavoidable.

Tue, 01/01/2013 - 10:45am

Allow for campus defense

The Arkansas State Legislature will once again consider if concealed carry will apply to the campuses of state colleges and universities.

Good. Maybe this time, they’ll get it right.

Sun, 12/30/2012 - 9:58am

A call for compromise

Compromise is generally defined as an agreement or the settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side making concessions. Just two ongoing debates illustrate the petty refusal of federal lawmakers to at least sometimes strike a bipartisan tone, and this despite the size of the stakes.

Sun, 12/30/2012 - 9:44am