Arkansas’ Hillbilly Image Endures
Talk Business contributor Suzi Parker reports for Reuters on a new exhibit at the Old State House Museum that examines Arkansas' inferiority complex through the...
Tilley: A Natural Gas Solution
Michael Tilley with our content partner, The City Wire, uses his weekly "Riff Raff" column to explore recent arguments that America could do much to...
Home Sales Continue To Spike In Key Central, Nw Arkansas Counties
We're always appreciative of Ethan Nobles at First Arkansas News for jumping on the central and northwest Arkansas local housing reports in advance of the...
Tourism On The Rise In Arkansas
Arkansas’ tourism tax collections through July are up 1.74% compared to the same period of 2010 and aren’t far behind 2008, the record year of...
Arkansas Income Up 4.8% In Second Quarter
Personal income in Arkansas during the second quarter of 2011 was $99.649 billion, up 4.82% compared to the second quarter of 2010 and up 1.32%...
Wal-mart To Broaden Its Solar Power Program
The world’s largest retailer announced Wednesday (Sept. 21) that it plans to install solar panels on 60 additional stores in California, which would place solar...
Arkansas Best Announces Management Changes
Wes Kemp, president and CEO of Fort Smith-based ABF Freight System, will retire Dec. 31, ending an almost 43-year career with the less-than-truckload operator that...
Northwest Arkansas ‘state Of The Region’ Report Released
Education attainment and university research funding were the weak areas in a Northwest Arkansas economy that continues to perform well despite state and national economic...
Officials Remember Late Economic Development Director
Arkansas economic leaders paid tribute to Maria Haley, Gov. Mike Beebe's director of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission who died last week of a brain...
Siloam Springs Considering Cable Business Venture
The city of Siloam Springs is considering providing fiber-to-home internet, cable television and telephone services, which would put it in competition with private enterprises already...
Arkansas Jobless Rate Rises For Fourth Straight Month
Arkansas’ August unemployment rate rose to 8.3% - the fourth straight month of an increase and another 24-year high - as the number of those...
$161 Million In Misspent Unemployment Benefits Revealed (updated)
New data from the U.S. Department of Labor indicate that Arkansas apparently made $161 million in erroneous unemployment payments during a time when the state's...
Postal Service Eyeing Consolidations To Little Rock
A U.S. Postal Service proposal that would essentially move all mail processing in Arkansas to Little Rock would result in lengthier mail delivery times and...
Jeff Nichols Latest Film To Get Advance Screening In Lr
Rising filmmaker Jeff Nichols, a Little Rock native who will film a major motion picture in Arkansas later this year, will have an advance private...
Whirlpool Jobs Could Drop By January
The news continues to be less than optimistic about the future of Whirlpool’s massive production and warehousing facility in Fort Smith, with a source saying...










