by - November 25, 2008 3:47 pm
Jake Files, a former state representative from Fort Smith, has announced he will not seek the post of party chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party. Files is a former member…
by - November 23, 2008 7:25 pm
The Fort Smith Department of Sanitation has found that the pressure of putrefaction is profitable; that the noxious and the nasty can be worth a nickel or two. Or millions.
by - November 22, 2008 7:04 pm
Transition time is always a good time to, well, transition. Sometimes it’s the best time to transition in a big way. If you, Kind Reader, need an example then you’re…
by - November 20, 2008 2:04 pm
With our without a bailout of the big three U.S. automakers, potentially thousands of jobs in the Fort Smith region will feel the pressure of declining auto production. A word of warning: This story does not have a happy ending. Sorry. We tried to find the silver lining.
by - November 14, 2008 10:04 am
Many of the points and issues raised by the task force were part of previous state studies and reports. And that’s not to fault the Task Force. It speaks more to the sometimes slow pace at which change happens in Arkansas.
by - November 11, 2008 5:48 pm
Regions with strong entrepreneurial programs have 125 percent more employment growth, 58 percent more wage growth and a 63 percent higher percentage of high-tech businesses. The Fort Smith region is not yet one of these entrepreneurial regions. But a few folks are working on it.
by - November 11, 2008 6:19 am
(Editor’s note: This essay was first published in November 2002 when I was business editor of the Times Record. A version of that essay can be found here.) This week…
by - November 2, 2008 7:51 pm
On June 27, the fine folks at The Times Record in Fort Smith and The Morning News in Northwest Arkansas ended my almost eight years of employment as their business…
by - February 19, 2001 12:00 am
Stephen Caldwell, who has served for the past three years as executive editor of The Life@Work Journal, the Christian business magazine based in Fayetteville, has left that job to join Walker Creative Inc.
by - February 19, 2001 12:00 am
Houndstooth Clothing Co. of Fayetteville pulled its kiosks from four malls in Mississippi and Tennessee after December ice storms froze Christmas retail sales in some locations.
by - February 19, 2001 12:00 am
The ordinance review committee of the Fayetteville City Council will meet Feb. 21 to consider a proposal to extend the city?s 2 percent hotel/motel/restaurant (HMR) tax to convenience stores, carry-out pizza businesses and grocery store delicatessens.
by - February 5, 2001 12:00 am
It?s bound to happen. Someday, a university is going to sue a wayward athletic booster and win.
by - February 5, 2001 12:00 am
Springdale’s Silk Road Restaurant offers quick service.
by - February 5, 2001 12:00 am
Springdale?s Northwest Arkansas Community Foundation on Jan. 24 awarded five grants totaling $48,600 to local nonprofit organizations.
by - February 5, 2001 12:00 am
After working for 10 years as a physical therapist, most recently at Northwest Medical Center in Springdale, Ray Yumang decided to open his own clinic.
by - February 5, 2001 12:00 am
Charles Reaves, a local developer and former Sears executive, plans to build a ?major retail center? at the intersection of Interstate 540 and Pleasant Grove Road in Rogers.
by - January 26, 2001 4:35 pm
Earnings for First Federal Bancshares Inc.?s fourth quarter are down, but the company sees a 52-week stock high of $19 per share during the quarter ended Dec. 31.
by - January 22, 2001 12:00 am
Gov. Mike Huckabee has several technology initiatives up for consideration in the Legislature.
by - January 10, 2001 2:28 pm
Fayetteville’s Southwestern Energy Co. and Energen Resources Corp. of Birmingham, Ala., enter an exploration alliance in the Permian Basin.
by - January 8, 2001 12:00 am
Delta Systems Inc. was founded by Software engineers at M&M Mars Co.
