Author: Talk Business & Politics

Tobacco Wars Rage Despite Voter Mandate (Jeff Hankins Publisher’s Note)

The tobacco settlement funds are too much for the Arkansas Legislature to resist as a source of pork spending, despite the voter mandate for a coalition plan.

BOK Subsidiary Had Good Year, Too

Publicly traded BOK Financial Corp. of Tulsa, Okla., the parent of Bank of Arkansas N.A., recently announced it had record earnings of $100.1 million for 2000.

Manry?s Ascension Won?t Change Focus

Bank of America has long encouraged its local business clients to do more exporting and to diversify into international markets.

Springdale Business Picks Up Tijuana Trailers

Bell Trailer & Equipment, a division of Bell International Inc. in Lowell, has picked up a new line of trailers from a Mexican manufacturing plant.

?Million Mile Reflections? Artist Hired For Hospital Gala

The original long-haired country boys in the Charlie Daniels Band are headed for Fayetteville.

UA Names Building For Dan Ferritor

The University of Arkansas has named a three-story, 40,000-SF building on the Fayetteville campus in honor of Daniel Ferritor, who has served the UA for almost three decades.

Local Men to Build Condos in the Sand

A trio of Northwest Arkansas businessmen are taking their show on the road, or better yet, to the beach.

City?s Town Center Scores Venture Forum

As of mid-March, the largest event scheduled for the new Fayetteville Town Center is a National Association of Seed and Venture Funds seminar titled, ?Seed Investing as a Team Sport.?

McHardy to Close Kitchen Table

Skip McHardy, chef and co-owner of The Kitchen Table in Bentonville, said he plans to close the upscale restaurant the week of March 19.

Curious Movements

Design engineer Patrick Turner didn?t set out to start a business, but his venture, Curious Movements, now seems inevitable.

The Boat Place LLC

The Boat Place LLC opened in Springdale just in time to reach all of the customers that will need a lake vessel this summer.

The Village Gallery

Husband-and-wife art collectors John and Darcy Gay couldn?t resist Northwest Arkansas.

Masterson Joins D-G staff as Columnist

Mike Masterson, former executive editor of the Northwest Arkansas Times, will begin writing an opinion column three times a week for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in April.

No Hard Feelings, by George

Former Northwest Arkansas Times publisher George Smith was among the 1,000 employees of Alltel Corp. nationwide who recently lost their jobs because of layoffs, attrition or early retirement.

No Sources, Please: Is This a Trend?

On March 4, The Sunday Times of London published an article quoting an unnamed source with Amazon.com saying the troubled e-tailer was in talks with bricks-and-mortar monolith Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and an ?alliance? was to be announced within six weeks.

St. Bernards to expand Maternal Life360 HOME program into Greene County

Then and Now: Cooperative business model a good fit for Mitchell Johnson

Dope Medicinal Wellness opens Fayetteville clinic

Fort Smith metro job numbers up less than 1% in September report