Author: Talk Business & Politics staff

Talk Business & Politics staff

Manufacturing group criticizes Trump administration about trade deficit

While one manufacturing trade association has been largely supportive of President Donald Trump’s administration, another, the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) has found little to support. AAM recently pushed back…

MISO approves $2.6 billion in electricity transmission projects

Board members for electricity transmission organization Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) approved 353 transmission projects, representing an investment of $2.6 billion, as part of the organization’s 2017 expansion plan to…

Walmart, Walmart Foundation contribute nearly half million dollars to central Arkansas charities

Walmart and the Walmart Foundation donated grants totaling $442,000 to 11 nonprofits in central Arkansas as part of its “Day of Giving” event. In a ceremony at the Walmart on…

Smart meter usage rises to 47% of U.S. electricity customers

Between 2010 and 2016, the use of smart meters by U.S. electricity customers more than doubled to 71 million customers, or 47% of the 150 million electricity customers in the…

Noelle Danylchuk appointed chair of UAMS genetic counseling department

Noelle Danylchuk, a certified genetic counselor at UAMS Northwest Regional Campus, has been named chair for the Department of Genetic Counseling in the College of Health Professions at the University…

Wal-Mart Stores to change its legal name

Wal-Mart Stores filed a notice with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this week announcing plans to change its legal name effective Feb. 1, which is the start of the…

Butterfield Trail Village, UAMS announce partnership for onsite physician

Allan Martin, a family practitioner with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Northwest, started seeing patients at a new clinic office at Butterfield Trail Village in Fayetteville on Nov….

$30 million loan program to support Downtown Springdale Master Plan

Three banks have joined forces to create a $30 million loan program to fund renovations and new construction in downtown Springdale, in addition to the establishment of new businesses and…

Isaac Smith promoted to president of Colliers International Arkansas

Colliers International Arkansas in Little Rock has promoted Isaac Smith to president, the company announced Tuesday (Dec. 5). Kevin Huchingson, the firm’s CEO and president the past 15 years, will…

Auburn professor named dean of UA Bumpers agriculture college

Deacue Fields III has been named the new dean of the University of Arkansas Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences, pending approval by the UA System Board…

Tobacco companies run ads on smoking dangers to comply with federal ruling

Major U.S. tobacco companies have started running ads in the Little Rock Sun and across the nation to comply with a 2006 federal court order after 11 years of appeals…

Coal-fired electricity generation in South falls to 29%

In the South, the amount of electricity generated with coal fell to 29% in 2016, from 50% in 2006, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Over the same period…

Milken Institute chair Michael Milken is keynote speaker for annual Business Forecast Luncheon

Michael Milken, chair of the Milken Institute, will be the featured speaker for the 24th-annual Business Forecast Luncheon, coordinated by the University of Arkansas Sam M. Walton College of Business…

Arkansas Works enrollment declines 6% in October, up from September

The number of people enrolled in Arkansas Works fell 6% to 309,719 in October, from 330,488 in the same month in 2016, according to the Arkansas Department of Human Services….

University of Arkansas hires University of Houston AD for same job (Updated)

Editor’s note: This story is updated with confirmation from the University of Arkansas of the new hire. ––––––––––––––– The University of Arkansas has announced it will hire Hunter Yurachek as…

Appalachia shale gas production has tripled since 2012

Shale gas production in the Appalachia region has been driving an overall increase in U.S. natural gas production, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Production in the region, which…

Arkansas River traffic through October at highest level since 2013

Editor’s note: The Arkansas Transportation Report is managed by Talk Business & Politics and sponsored by the Arkansas Trucking Association and the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce. Other transportation industry related stories can be…

Little Rock’s Rose Law Firm, state’s oldest business, hangs shingle in Fayetteville

Arkansas legal heavyweight Rose Law Firm has entered the Northwest Arkansas market. Fayetteville attorneys Mark M. Henry and Adam Hopkins of the Henry Law Firm have joined Rose Law Firm,…

Arkansas Farm Bureau re-elects its president and vice president

Randy Veach and Rich Hillman were re-elected president and vice president Friday (Dec. 1) of the Arkansas Farm Bureau. Delegates elected seven other board members and filled a vacant board…

Sales of used Class 8 trucks rise 37%, trailer orders up 50% in October

Class 8 same-dealer used truck sales rose 37% in October, from the same month in 2016, according to ACT Research. Class 8 trucks are the largest class of big rigs…