Printing the Paper, and Avoiding Red Ink
Newspapers are trying different tactics, from layoffs to online subscriptions, to save a business model disrupted by the internet. read more >
Newspapers are trying different tactics, from layoffs to online subscriptions, to save a business model disrupted by the internet. read more >
Arkansas Business reporters Mark Friedman and Kyle Massey and Editor Gwen Moritz were recognized for work published in 2016 by the Alliance of Area Business Publishers, an international association of business journals. read more >
Possibly because they’ve been awash in material goods their whole lives, the millennials seem less materialistic, and I admire that. But in so many other ways, I’m grateful to have entered adulthood when I did and sympathetic to the millennials who blame us for handing them a raw deal. read more >
What’s happening in Arkansas and throughout the country is only a portion of the extra cost of Obamacare and its related tentacles that can be expected in government programs. read more >
Sitting there in the retro-vintage federal courtroom in Hot Springs, I listened to Steve Standridge of Mount Ida try to make a federal judge feel bad for not giving him more time to come up with millions of dollars in restitution. read more >
To celebrate Arkansas Business’ 30th anniversary, the staff decided to pull out and reprint some of the stories that we felt were the most important, the most interesting and the most fun. Arkansas Business is still reporting on the state economic scene with business executives as its readership, sticking to its mission of providing the revealing, memorable and important business news available in Arkansas. read more >
Arkansas Business Editor Gwen Moritz objects to conflict of interest, unfair comparison in KFSM's story about the choice to lead the University of Arkansas Center for Ethics in Journalism. read more >
It is most disappointing, as the middle class declines and the gap between the “haves” and “have-nots” widens, that there are still elected officials who believe “it is not the government’s role to provide for able-bodied people.” read more >
In some ways the past five years have flown by, especially when I look at my suddenly grown kids. But economically speaking, the past five years have been very long and slow, and I can only imagine the misery of the millions who found themselves among the long-term unemployed or who lost their homes or who have been stuck with overpriced houses that they never should have bought in the first place. read more >
Last night on THV 11 News, Arkansas Business editor Gwen Moritz told our news partner that "confidential human source 1" in the criminal complaint against Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner could really only be one person, broker Steele Stephens. read more >
The dream of an ideal community is as fundamental to human longing as perfectly balanced meals and six-pack abs — but even less attainable because, well, there are all those other people involved. read more >
The Moritz Scale, as you can see, ranks faux pas by political figures on a scale of 1 (behavior that “just looks bad”) to 5 (criminally bad behavior). It is applicable to political scandals that don’t involve sex — Ernie Passailaigue, former director of the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery, was twice measured on the Moritz Scale with nary a zipper problem — but sex certainly does seem to crop up regularly. And this installment’s subjects are currently involved in sex scandals. read more >
The pattern in last week’s election was this: Patterns matter. And politicians who can recognize and exploit patterns win. read more >
