by - March 18, 2015 9:19 pm
Passions of the Sen. Cotton
The good Senator Tom Cotton isn’t acting like the farm boy from Yell County who was dominant in his campaign commercials. Those small town, farm values he loaded up in…
Author: Michael Tilley
by - March 8, 2015 2:39 pm
Arkansas Tourism Ticker: All Measurements Positive For Inaugural Report
Three key measurements of Arkansas’ leisure and hospitality sector ended 2014 in positive territory, with 16 of the 18 Arkansas cities reviewed showing year-over-year hospitality tax gains, according to the inaugural report of the Arkansas Tourism Ticker.
by - March 4, 2015 9:50 pm
Muddy shovels and needle movers
If or when the post-Great Recession history of Fort Smith is written, a leading candidate as an historic marker in the economic recovery will be the recent and well-attended cold…
by - March 3, 2015 8:08 pm
U.S. Shipping Industry Rate Revenue Expected To Rise In 2015
Activity in the national shipping industry was likely up almost 3% in January, according to the Cass Freight Index. A national trucking index was up 1.2% in January. Both reports…
by - March 2, 2015 7:53 pm
U.S. Corps Of Engineers Upgrades Arkansas River To ‘High-Use System’
Even with a 3% decline in tonnage shipped on the Arkansas River in 2014, the 445-mile system has been upgraded by the U.S. Corps of Engineers from a moderate use…
by - February 27, 2015 12:05 am
Justice Scalia: Court Doesn’t Need Cultural Diversity To Do Its Job
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told a Fort Smith audience that seeking cultural diversity among the nine members of the nation’s highest court is not a “good idea.” That’s not all he had on his mind.
by - February 24, 2015 5:19 pm
Two Springdale-based Companies To Expand Into Fort Smith
Springdale-based Career Academy of Hair Design is expanding into Fort Smith thanks in part to an estimated $1.35 million renovation by FSM Redevelopment Partners of property near the 40-acre site…
by - February 22, 2015 11:20 am
The trail money money trail
The Fort Smith Board of Directors may not have had a full battery of information when approving a ballot question seeking voter approval of a plan to spend more than…
by - February 18, 2015 8:40 pm
Arkansas Tourism Officials See More Industry Growth In 2015
New restaurants in downtown Bentonville, a new murals festival in downtown Fort Smith and other tourism products that “creates a buzz” are what will help Arkansas’ tourism industry in 2015…
by - February 11, 2015 7:27 am
USA Truck Posts 2014 Income Of $6 Million, Ends Five Years Of Losses
If there is a comeback kid in the Arkansas corporate world, it would have to be Van Buren-based USA Truck. Officials with the long-haul trucking and logistics company announced 2014…
by - January 28, 2015 9:51 pm
Unused Mitsubishi Plant At Chaffee Crossing Listed For Sale
The new, modern and unused 200,000-square-foot Mitsubishi manufacturing facility at Chaffee Crossing that once promised to be home to 400 good-paying jobs has officially been put on the sale block….
by - January 27, 2015 10:43 pm
Unemployment Rate Much Higher For Black Teens
While the state’s jobless rate continues to fall, young African-American workers are still struggling to find work and the statistics are alarmingly disturbing.
by - January 21, 2015 6:09 pm
U.S. Shipping Industry Set For Good 2015, But Port And Driver Problems Persist
Retailers like Wal-Mart Stores and their respective vendors and customers may not benefit from labor issues at major U.S. ports and truck driver and freight equipment shortages, but the U.S….
by - January 21, 2015 6:05 pm
Shut up and pay up
Let’s consider this mysterious and allegedly absolute cover of confidentiality under which Fort Smith and federal officials discussed the settlement of the city’s Clean Water Act violations – a settlement…
by - January 15, 2015 6:17 am
Buddy Wray Says Mistakes Are Necessary For Business Success
Editor’s note: This story first appeared in the January-February 2015 issue of Talk Business & Politics magazine. Wray is one of four inductees in this year’s UA Walton College of…
by - January 14, 2015 4:15 pm
Conner Eldridge: ‘I’m Here To Be A Prosecutor’
Editor’s note: This article appears in the latest magazine edition of Talk Business & Politics, which you can read here. If you ask Conner Eldridge about his political future, don’t…
by - January 11, 2015 7:34 pm
7 Fort Smith government moves
Solely for the purpose of providing a window into how Fort Smith city staff and the Board of Directors conduct public business, let’s revisit the process to name the water…
by - January 5, 2015 8:06 pm
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Scalia To Speak In Fort Smith
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will be in Fort Smith on Feb. 26 to speak at the first of three Winthrop Paul Rockefeller Distinguished Lecture Series that are focused…
by - January 3, 2015 5:25 pm
Still on the SOB watch
It’s just another day, really. Another week. Another month. Another year, one hopes, above the daisies and dirt. But this calendar shift comes with an unavoidable remembrance that, honestly, best…
by - December 31, 2014 11:51 pm
Most Arkansas-based Stock Prices Move Higher In 2014
It would have required one helluva crystal ball in early 2014 to bet that two struggling Arkansas-based trucking companies would see their stock price more than double by year end….