Victimless Crime (Gwen Moritz Editor's Note)
For years Rhea Lana Riner offered her consignors the opportunity to shop her sales first in exchange for putting in a few hours helping organize and operate the sales. read more >
Tagged: Opinion And Analysis
More Than Mystery Shopping (Barry Goldberg On Leadership)
It is always surprising to me how some of the most common processes in a business can be like a flashing neon sign about major issues in the organization’s culture, structure and execution that are unrecognized and unaddressed. read more >
Do You Feel SECURE? (Johnny Brown Commentary)
The financial industry is adjusting to a new federal law that is not yet widely known by retirement plan investors and sponsors but could have serious implications for their retirement plans. read more >
A Different Kind of Horse Race (Editorial)
With the opening of the Saracen Annex in Pine Bluff, to be joined later this year by the full-fledged Saracen Casino Resort, Oaklawn faces head-to-head competition in its own backyard. read more >
Future Shock (Gwen Moritz Editor's Note)
BlackRock won’t be betting on climate change denialists — or on companies that refuse to plan for a future economy that is different from the one we’re all accustomed to. read more >
The Right Conversations in 2020 (Jim Karrh On Marketing)
Now that you have set your 2020 growth plans for the business, it’s time to set to work achieving them. read more >
Keeping the Door Open (Editorial)
In defending to legislators his decision to allow about 50 refugees to resettle in northwest Arkansas, Gov. Hutchinson sounded like the thoughtful Republicans we remember with nostalgia. read more >
I’ll Have The Usual (Gwen Moritz Editor's Note)
Everyone has been in a situation in which we felt we had no options, and that is never a good feeling. But being overwhelmed or paralyzed by too many choices is even more familiar and almost as miserable. read more >
How Does It Know? (Craig Douglass On Consumers)
Consumer Reports published the day after Christmas their list version titled, “The Most Influential Products of the Past Decade.” As they describe it, it’s their editors’ picks for the products and services that defined the 2010s. Here is our abridged and commented-on inventory. read more >
Paying More for Less (Editorial)
Health care costs in the United States are unsustainable, punitive to every American — except, of course, to those who benefit from this unsustainable system — and a drag on an otherwise robust economy. read more >
Backward And Forward (Gwen Moritz Editor's Note)
I realized a long time ago that the things we remember most vividly from childhood are the things that we “always” did — the traditions that are reinforced and become expected — rather than one-off events, no matter how spectacular. read more >
America’s Economy Ends Year With Bang (Justin Crossie Commentary)
Well over 7 million jobs have been created since November 2016, a number more than double the entire population of the state of Arkansas. read more >
Shoulda Known Better (Gwen Moritz Editor's Note)
Marijuana is one of the few growth industries we have right now. Of course, I'm referring to the new industry of legal marijuana. Weed has been a profitable enterprise for the most risk-tolerant entrepreneurs for decades. read more >
Reasons for Good Cheer (Editorial)
It was a good week for free trade, Faulkner County, and football. read more >
Changing Your Mind (Barry Goldberg On Leadership)
Talented leaders know that changing their minds without a basis and too often creates organizational chaos. read more >
Restoring Trust in The Medical Board (Bill Witty Commentary)
It was 3:20 a.m. on Oct. 13, 2015, when the Boone County deputy knocked on our door. He had come to tell us of our 24-year-old daughter’s death in Hill County, Texas. Jill’s mother and I got dressed, packed a few things and began the drive to Texas. And thus began a four-year journey into the abyss of the opioid epidemic in Arkansas. read more >
Educational Television (Gwen Moritz Editor's Note)
On Amazon’s Prime Video service I recently rediscovered “The Closer,” a series that I loved during its original run on TBS from 2005-12. Here are some of the great lessons to be learned from Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson. read more >
Unsung Heroes (Editorial)
At a time when self-serving politicians are telling Americans that neither the bureaucratic “deep state” nor the journalistic “enemies of the people” can be trusted, we are persuaded that both forms of public service are as vital as ever. read more >
China’s Theft of American Innovation (FBI Commentary)
Whether it is through high-tech means or simply grabbing a handful of proprietary grains, the People’s Republic of China has consistently proven that what they lack in creativity and innovation, they make up for in outright theft. read more >
The Most Complicated Time of the Year (Gwen Moritz Editor's Note)
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, and I enjoy Christmas because I refuse to let it take over my life. But there is one thing that ramps up the stress at this time of year: health insurance decision-making. read more >
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