by - June 12, 2018 10:23 am
In advance of this week’s Arkansas Bar Association annual meeting in Hot Springs, Supreme Court Justice Courtney Goodson is lining up significant support. Goodson led the ticket in a three-person…
by - June 6, 2018 6:48 pm
With Congress failing to pass a Farm Bill for the next five years, Arkansas farmers are teetering toward limbo with future farm policy. In mid-May, the U.S. House of Representatives…
by - May 29, 2018 11:11 am
University of Arkansas’ Walton College economist Mervin Jebaraj said that fluctuating commodity prices and volatility in the agricultural sector are the biggest reasons why Arkansas’ GDP (gross domestic product) has…
by - May 29, 2018 10:56 am
Appearing on this week’s edition of Talk Business & Politics, Entergy Arkansas CEO Rick Riley discussed lower electricity bills that are the result of the recent federal tax cut law,…
by - May 24, 2018 5:43 pm
So much for a quiet period after Tuesday’s party primaries. Second District Democratic Congressional nominee Clarke Tucker is getting an early taste of what’s in store for the general election,…
by - May 21, 2018 1:20 pm
And then there were three — again. On Monday (May 21) Baker Kurrus announced he would seek the office of Little Rock Mayor, adding his name to the field that…
by - May 20, 2018 10:02 am
Department of Arkansas Heritage Director Stacy Hurst lauded the collaborative effort to preserve natural land in western Pulaski County and says a north-central Arkansas project is also in the works….
by - May 14, 2018 2:17 pm
Dr. Connie Hill is a vice president at Jonesboro-based St. Bernards Medical Center overseeing its heart care and cancer service lines. She also is president of the Arkansas Healthcare Executive…
by - May 10, 2018 1:44 pm
It would be too expensive to move the Arkansas state Capitol to influential Northwest Arkansas, so regional leaders will have to find ways to bridge the political passageway from inner-city…
by - May 10, 2018 9:21 am
In the latest survey from Talk Business & Politics and Hendrix College, Second District Democrats offered empirical proof of their overwhelming support for the state’s Medicaid expansion program and additional…
by - May 8, 2018 5:28 pm
While Republicans in Arkansas overwhelmingly support President Donald Trump’s job performance, Democratic voters in the state’s most progressive Congressional District view Trump negatively. A new survey of 624 likely Democratic…
by - May 8, 2018 7:13 am
Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola says he won’t seek a fourth term as the leader of the state’s capital city. Stodola released an email saying that a “serious medical diagnosis”…
by - May 7, 2018 5:19 pm
If the Second Congressional District – the most Democratic-leaning region of the state – is any indication of the rest of the state, then no one knows for sure who…
by - May 7, 2018 2:37 pm
Banker, farmer, businessman and community leader Dick Trammel is in his final year of service on the Arkansas Highway Commission. Now serving as commission chairman, the Pocahontas native came to…
by - April 29, 2018 10:04 am
Despite a steady unemployment number of 3.8%, a University of Arkansas economist says there are underlying fundamentals that need to improve to maintain Arkansas’ continued jobs momentum. Economist Mervin Jebaraj,…
by - April 29, 2018 10:04 am
Arkansas Economic Development Commission Executive Director Mike Preston is hopeful a new spinoff of last year’s federal tax cut bill could help up to 85 impoverished communities across the state….
by - April 24, 2018 5:24 pm
Only 18% of Republican voters in Arkansas favor heavier regulation of guns, 35% favor fewer regulations, and a plurality of 44% think there should be no changes to existing gun…
by - April 23, 2018 5:22 pm
President Donald Trump’s job approval rating among Arkansas Republicans is unquestionably positive as 86% of the state’s GOP primary voters expressed a thumbs up for the nation’s chief executive. A…
by - April 22, 2018 9:47 am
A new survey of likely Republican party primary voters in Arkansas shows that Gov. Asa Hutchinson has a nearly two-to-one lead over over challenger Jan Morgan. The latest Talk Business…
by - April 22, 2018 9:43 am
U.S. Rep. French Hill, a veteran of the George H.W. Bush White House, fondly remembered former First Lady Barbara Bush, who passed away at the age of 92 last week….
