by - May 23, 2016 5:39 pm
The unfolding story at Bentonville-based America’s Car-Mart during the past year has been one of misses. The buy-here pay here used car dealer did it again Monday, (May 23) reporting…
by - May 23, 2016 4:25 pm
The director of the Arkansas Department of Higher Education, Dr. Brett Powell, is leaving his post to become Henderson State University’s vice president for finance and administration. Powell will leave…
by - May 23, 2016 3:46 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed a five-year highway bill into law Monday hours after it passed the Senate and said any longer term plan should come as a result of a…
by - May 23, 2016 12:05 pm
Even with the price of crude oil prices still below $50 a barrel and the U.S. rig count at historic low levels, America remained the world’s top producer of petroleum…
by - May 23, 2016 11:57 am
Lona Robertson, associate dean of the Dale Bumpers College at the University of Arkansas, has been named interim dean of the college effective June 1. Robertson is taking over for…
by - May 23, 2016 11:57 am
Lona Robertson, associate dean of the Dale Bumpers College at the University of Arkansas, has been named interim dean of the college effective June 1. Robertson is taking over for…
by - May 23, 2016 5:59 am
Editor’s note: Each Monday, Talk Business & Politics provides “Money Talk,” a wrap-up of banking and financial news. –––––––––––––––– HOME BANCSHARES TO RING NASDAQ BELL Home BancShares, Inc., parent company…
by - May 22, 2016 6:12 pm
A panel of three professionals across multiple generations on Friday (May 20)shared their experience and opinions about the value of mentoring in professional development Friday during the Sunny Side of…
by - May 22, 2016 7:45 am
Editor’s note: Each Sunday, Talk Business & Politics provides “Made In America,” a round-up of state and global manufacturing news. –––––––––––––– JOBLESS RATE AMONG FOREIGN WORKERS IN U.S. DROPS TO…
by - May 21, 2016 2:50 pm
Arkansas State University officials announced Saturday (May 21) they have revamped the festival that honors Johnny Cash and raises money for the restoration and maintenance of his boyhood home in…
by - May 21, 2016 7:28 am
TV PREVIEW On this week’s TV edition of Talk Business & Politics, which airs Sundays at 9:30 a.m. on KATV Channel 7 in Central Arkansas and now in Northeast Arkansas…
by - May 20, 2016 7:11 pm
The Department of Human Services and the Arkansas Health Care Association entered into a memorandum of understanding Friday meant to reduce long-term Medicaid health care costs by at least $250…
by - May 20, 2016 3:38 pm
Hytrol President David Peacock said Friday (May 20) that the sound of noise in a 62,000 square-foot expansion of their company’s facility in Jonesboro was a good thing, calling it…
by - May 20, 2016 3:04 pm
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin (R) has vetoed a bill passed by the GOP-controlled Legislature that sought to make it a felony for doctors to perform abortions in the state. In…
by - May 20, 2016 10:22 am
USA Truck is suddenly without a chief financial officer. Michael Borrows, who was hired in September 2014 as the CFO for the Van Buren-based trucking and logistics company, resigned Thursday…
by - May 20, 2016 10:22 am
USA Truck is suddenly without a chief financial officer. Michael Borrows, who was hired in September 2014 as the CFO for the Van Buren-based trucking and logistics company, resigned Thursday…
by - May 20, 2016 9:13 am
Arkansas’ job market continued to venture into new territory in April as the state’s jobless rate fell from last’s month’s seasonally adjusted all-time low of 4.1% and total employment touched…
by - May 20, 2016 8:51 am
The number of people employed in the airline industry through March reached its highest total in nearly eight years just ahead of the Memorial Day holiday weekend, the traditional start…
by - May 20, 2016 8:45 am
Home BancShares Chairman John Allison and members of the Conway-based banking group’s management team will ring the opening bell on the Nasdaq stock exchange on May 24 (Tuesday), company officials…
by - May 20, 2016 8:45 am
Home BancShares Chairman John Allison and members of the Conway-based banking group’s management team will ring the opening bell on the Nasdaq stock exchange on May 24 (Tuesday), company officials…
