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HISTORIC KRESS BUILDING IN HOT SPRINGS UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP

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By Mark Carter

In January 1942, the newly created War Production Board required all U.S. factories to stop what they were doing and begin production of the war machine necessary to help win WWII.

It’s one of the rare examples of Big Government winning the day.

And the world needed it to be Big that day. Without that specific federal intervention into the free market, there soon wouldn’t have been a market to patronize, free or otherwise.

The great Philip K. Dick imagined an alternate history in which the U.S. was late to the cause and the victorious Nazis and imperial Japanese partitioned the continental United States. But the day indeed was won, and Admiral Yamamoto’s cautionary tale of America as sleeping giant realized in full.

PUBLISHER’S LETTER

Although one never knows what one will get when it comes to spring weather in Arkansas, it’s been nice to see folks out working in their gardens and to see the signs of spring. And you know what they say, April’s garden rows bring May’s Dynamic Duos.

Each May, AMP shines a light on those “Dynamic Duos” who help make Arkansas such a great place to live and work.

Nominated by AMP readers, the 2023 Dynamic Duos represent married couples, longtime business partners, siblings, mothers and sons — you name it. And through their businesses and philanthropic work, they’re making our communities better.

Also in May, Angela Forsyth profiles Arkansas Trucking Association

The giant no longer sleeps, of course; it’s too busy regulating and seeking out lower-case nazis against which to wage sociopolitical war. And climate change represents as active a front as any.

Inside this issue, Professors Andrew Balthrop of Fayetteville and Travis Tokar of Auburn consider the logistics challenges of a transition from fossil fuels to clean energy. And there are many. As noble a cause as the transition to clean energy represents, society can’t pivot on a dime — something the climate change warriors would do well to appreciate. As the professors note:

“The collective global approach to reducing dependance on fossil fuels has, in many ways, been like a series of crash diets — full of short-term wins but also unintended consequences that hinder long-term success and sometimes create