by - October 1, 2014 5:32 am
Year-to-date home sales and sales volume in Arkansas through August remains positive, but August home sales were down more than 5% and the total value of those homes sold were…
by - September 23, 2014 8:11 pm
Collections of Arkansas’ 2% tourism tax during the first six months of 2014 totaled $6.769 million, up 7.6% compared to the $6.287 million during the same period of 2013. The…
by - September 21, 2014 5:25 pm
Some or all members of the Fort Smith Board of Directors often gather at a restaurant following their regularly scheduled voting meetings. The media has not received advanced notice of…
by - September 10, 2014 3:07 pm
It was September 2013 when the Fort Smith Board of Directors encouraged city staff to do more to incorporate compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles into the city fleet. At the…
by - September 4, 2014 8:45 am
Mike Callan’s office at Arkansas Oklahoma Gas Corp. was almost empty the Thursday before the Labor Day weekend. There were hooks on the walls where pictures once hung. On his…
by - August 26, 2014 6:23 pm
Mike Ross took time during the opening of his Northwest Arkansas campaign headquarters in Springdale to blast a new television ad from the Republican Governors Association (RGA) alleging that the…
by - August 24, 2014 7:34 pm
Comes now Kaitlin Stephens serving as a timely example to students returning to school: Do stuff. Do a lot of stuff. Do a lot of different stuff. Do a lot…
by - August 20, 2014 6:20 am
Three broad trucking reports suggest continued modest growth in the overall economy for the remainder of the year.
by - August 4, 2014 9:31 pm
Like those deranged cult leaders who every so often convince a handful of shaved-head nitwits that the world will end via some cosmic oddity or the loyalty-blinded Razorback fan who…
by - July 22, 2014 4:00 pm
Reports of the closely watched U.S. freight industry suggest the economy performed well in the first half of 2014, but hiccups remain despite positive anecdotal evidence.
by - July 17, 2014 8:34 pm
On the strength of a record March and April, collections of Arkansas’ two percent tourism tax are up more than six percent for the year.
by - July 15, 2014 11:20 pm
One may admire the perseverance of Fort Smith City Directors Kevin Settle and Mike Lorenz in their effort to quash any discussion of how the city handles its legal needs,…
by - July 14, 2014 9:36 pm
Paul Harvel’s more than 46 years of work with chambers of commerce in three states – from Northwest Arkansas and Fort Smith to Amarillo – has garnered him the most…
by - July 13, 2014 5:37 pm
There are important issues facing America and Arkansas but our two candidates for United States Senate appear to be more concerned with throwing each other under the church bus. The…
by - July 6, 2014 6:44 pm
The back and forth advertisements from Arkansas gubernatorial hopefuls Asa Hutchinson and Mike Ross often elicit an emotion a more disciplined journalist would not reveal. And that emotion is this:…
by - July 1, 2014 7:56 pm
The corpus of the Fort Smith regional economy is not a fully recovered patient but we should pause to take note of recent positive developments. The developments may offer even…
by - June 19, 2014 8:00 pm
A simple and smart-alecky assessment could be that singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson ran out of beer before he ran out of herb and converted an empty Bud can into a bong…
by - June 17, 2014 4:29 pm
Although the first quarter U.S. GDP hit negative territory for the first time in almost three years, two trucking and shipping reports suggest the U.S. economy is growing and may…
by - June 6, 2014 6:58 pm
The Wal-Mart shareholders meetings have become part late-night talk show, part church service/pep rally, part United Nations parade, with a retail Woodstock music festival sans the hippies, mushrooms and mud….
by - June 1, 2014 5:30 pm
He dang sure shouldn’t be, but Jason Isbell was an afterthought on the promo stuff announcing a July 7 concert at the AMP in Northwest Arkansas. Isbell would probably be…
