Opinion

The thing you need to know about Fort Smith Mayor Ray Baker is that he’s tremendously more interested in ensuring cheap and convenient television access to local religious programming and Lawrence Welk reruns than he is in ensuring the necessary forms of broadband/digital connections and service that the successful economies of tomorrow are installing today or installed yesterday.

There are two kind of people that backup their computer information. Those who do and those who will.

Peter’s review of this movie is more of a review of the history of male-centric “buddy pictures.” Which is to say, it’s an interesting review.

The following is a real letter. From a real person. We’re not sure about the dog. Or the story about the dog. But we do take this opportunity to reply to the letter, if for no other reason than it was more interesting than the notes we’ve received from supporters of Bernard Skoch.

The two books provide interesting and alarming insight into politics at the highest levels. Or, depending on your perspective, the lowest levels.

What follows will be a series of observations, lists and explainers all presented in a possibly naive hope they will clear the fog of misinformation, poor information and no information about the present and future management and financial health of the Fort Smith Convention Center. We do this because officials with the city of Fort Smith either won’t or can’t.

A camera doesn’t have to be expensive to be good. It just has to be with you.

Be prepared for zeppelins in a fog, shingles with a shimmy and two restaurants that Adam says are true gems.

There are a lot of important things we could discuss.

Our world of local, state and federal politics are awash in oddities, what ifs and what the hells. The primary ballot for the 3rd District Congressional race may look like a phone book. It will be interesting to see who Wal-Mart buys supports for the 3rd District seat.

Scareware can muck up your computer and take your money. It’s almost as bad as the IRS.