by - October 2, 2014 4:17 pm
Hot Springs’ Historic Baseball Trail, a series of 28 historical markers throughout the city commemorating it as the Birthplace of Major League Baseball Spring Training, is being awarded the 2014…
by - October 1, 2014 9:29 pm
Members of the state House and Senate State Agencies and Governmental Affairs Committees heard testimony Wednesday regarding a movement to amend the U.S. Constitution through a method never before used…
by - September 25, 2014 3:52 pm
The national director of the Convention of States Project is scheduled to testify before the Arkansas Senate and House Committees on State Agencies and Governmental Affairs Oct. 1 about a national effort to amend the Constitution to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government.
by - September 23, 2014 7:44 pm
A daylong workforce summit sponsored by the Arkansas Chamber of Commerce put a spotlight on problems and solutions facing industry, education and government.
by - September 22, 2014 12:29 pm
UALR’s Department of Systems Engineering will receive license-free radio frequency (RF) planning and optimization software and training from CelPlan Technologies under an academic agreement currently offered to no other university…
by - September 19, 2014 9:27 pm
Friday night, Democrat Mike Ross and Republican Asa Hutchinson – the two major party candidates for Arkansas Governor – battled for an hour on statewide television.
by - September 17, 2014 7:57 pm
Peter Banko, president and CEO of CHI St. Vincent in Little Rock, has been named Catholic Heath Initiatives’ senior vice president and group executive officer of the east/southeast division and…
by - September 16, 2014 10:08 pm
After decades of reducing its number of school districts, Arkansas gained one on Tuesday as 95% of voters in Jacksonville and north Pulaski County voted to split from the Pulaski…
by - September 16, 2014 9:49 am
The education reform group Arkansas Learns spent $100,000 on radio and newspaper ads, online messaging, and automated telephone calls in 2013 to try to increase voter turnout in school elections….
by - September 10, 2014 8:20 pm
Presidential campaigns are more like a tug-of-war than a boxing match. Instead of a knockout blow, the two parties come to a relative stalemate trying to move a stable electorate….
by - September 9, 2014 7:09 pm
Arkansans for Coverage, a new coalition of health and human services organizations, announced Tuesday that it will help Arkansans learn about their health care options and enroll in coverage using…
by - September 4, 2014 6:48 pm
UALR will purchase supercomputing data storage technology 10 times larger than its current latest system using a $291,908 grant from the National Science Foundation, the university reported today in a…
by - September 4, 2014 4:55 pm
Two months before the election, independent Mark Moore is suing to get on the ballot in the lieutenant governor’s race. Moore filed a lawsuit earlier this year in U.S. District…
by - August 26, 2014 11:04 pm
There are no legal issues standing in the way of combining the public school employee and state employee health programs, but there would be financial issues to work out. That…
by - August 26, 2014 7:12 pm
Insurance premiums sold through the Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace, the state exchange created as a result of the Affordable Care Act, are projected to decrease by a net of 2%…
by - August 25, 2014 9:20 pm
The lower than expected 2015 insurance rate filings inadvertently published on the Arkansas Insurance Department’s Rate Review Division website provide evidence that the private option is working, one of the…
by - August 21, 2014 11:19 am
Gov. Mike Beebe said Wednesday that the indictment of Texas Gov. Rick Perry stemming from his veto of funding for a public corruption unit does not make him worry that…
by - August 19, 2014 3:25 pm
A technology invented by a UALR professor has been licensed by a worldwide leader in water purification with the help of the university’s TechLaunch technology transfer office. Dr. Tito Viswanathan,…
by - August 18, 2014 2:45 pm
The formula for keeping and attracting good teachers is simple: Let them be leaders. That’s the message of Jonathan Crossley, Arkansas’ Teacher of the Year. Crossley, 26, teaches 11th and…
by - August 16, 2014 3:30 pm
Adult applications in Arkansas for a type of Social Security Supplemental Security Income disability program have fallen 13% in the past year, according to Sen. Jonathan Dismang, R-Searcy, the incoming…
