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Tough Times Offer Opportunity To Build Better Leadership Skills

As we all have discovered, unique situations sometimes require that we just buckle down and get the job done.

EquityNet Turns Corner, Names Hollas as CEO

EquityNet of Fayetteville looks to 2009 as a growth year because investors will want its services.

AT&T Opens New Front in Arkansas Cable Wars

The battle for television service subscribers continues to ramp up as a AT&T recently introduced its U-verse system to Northwest Arkansas.

Parkway Bank Gets De-Saddled

Jerry Sadler, chairman and CEO of Parkway Bank, is no longer with the bank in Rogers.

More Malco Money Made

The Fayetteville movie experience got a lot better in the fall of 2007 when the new, 12-screen Malco Razorback Cinema finally opened after multiple delays.

Fayetteville Fud?s now Poppin’ Patr?n

A new Mexican restaurant, Patr?n, has taken over the Fuddrucker?s space and remodeling work is under way.

Lou Lou?s Suffers Bill Blahs

Just when one restaurant gets up and running, another one bites the dust.

Wal-Mart Gets Boss Box

Following the lead of Garth Brooks, The Eagles, Journey and AC/DC, “The Boss” Bruce Springsteen will release a greatest hits collection exclusively through Wal-Mart on Jan. 13.

Bad News for the Stephens News

Stephens Media Group of Las Vegas, which owns the Morning News of Northwest Arkansas, is having to trim costs at its flagship newspaper.

Razorbacks Ranked No. 1 in Spending

The University of Arkansas spends more money on athletics as a proportion of its total instructional expenditures than any other Division 1-A school in America.

Forty Under 40: Robert Baker

Robert Baker, 30, remembers vividly his first Edward Jones experience. A student at Oklahoma State University, Baker had visited about a dozen banks and other businesses in hopes of landing…

Forty Under 40: Nick Bartelt

Though he was a pro water skier in his late teens, Nick Bartelt, 30, started his college career wanting to be an anesthesiologist. But during an internship he found he…

Forty Under 40: Brooke Benham

Brooke Benham, 34, has taught herself everything she knows about designing clothing. She wasn’t formally trained in design and never worked in a clothing store but always dreamed of being…

Forty Under 40: Clinton Bennett

After graduating from the University of Arkansas in 1996 with a degree in agriculture business, Clinton Bennett returned to his hometown of Pocahontas to work on the family’s rice farm….

Forty Under 40: Steve Blair

Steve Blair, 38, was headed for law school when he realized many of his classmates at the University of Missouri were doing the same. He gravitated toward his marketing classes…

Forty Under 40: Jeffrey T. Borgsmiller

As a kid who loved structures, Jeff Borgsmiller naturally gravitated toward the construction field. He got a degree in civil engineering from the University of Colorado in 1993, then a…

Forty Under 40: Sarah Boyer,

Paragould native Sarah Boyer, 39, got her bachelor’s degree in human development, which she said was psychology-based. No doubt it’s helped her in a retail career. She graduated from Vanderbilt…

Forty Under 40: Tammy Bullock

Tammy Bullock, 36, loves her community and she’s got the mileage to prove it. Bullock, a fifth-generation Eureka Springs resident, made a three-hour round trip from Holiday Island to Fayetteville…

Forty Under 40: Bill Burnett

While attending high school in Hatfield, Ark., Bill Burnett earned high marks in math and science, leading a guidance counselor to suggest a career in engineering. Burnett initially thought he’d…

Forty Under 40: Michael Cassat, M.D.

Michael Cassat, 38, likes to help people. So it was only natural that he followed his grandfather’s lead and went into the field of medicine. After graduating from the University…