by - July 17, 2015 12:04 am
Patrick Moss: My Favorite TED Talk
With Little Rock hosting a TED Talk in about a week, we’ve begun a series of asking a number of folks in the Arkansas startup scene for their favorite TED…
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by - July 16, 2015 8:45 pm
Arkansas Groups Join Call To Fix Aviation Infrastructure, Cut Taxes On Flyers
The Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism and the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau were among 117 major travel-related companies and organizations urging congressional leaders to cut taxes on air travelers and move to a user-fee model for infrastructure financing as part of the forthcoming Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization.
by - July 16, 2015 8:40 pm
Only In Arkansas: Fishing The Little Red
Lots of Arkansas families will take fishing trips before the end of summer. The Natural State offers 9,700 miles of fishable streams and rivers, 600,000 acres of lakes, numerous bayous,…
by - July 16, 2015 7:52 pm
Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub Gets Into Science Week
The Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub will help KATV’s Daybreak with Science Week next week. According to Errin Dean, the Hub’s Director of Programs & Membership, Joel Gordon, the Launch Pad…
by - July 16, 2015 7:29 pm
Insurance Execs: Private Option Recipients Use ER Five Times More Often
Enrollees in the state’s private option visit the emergency room at five times the rate of the rest of the Blue Cross population and are less likely to use their…
by - July 16, 2015 7:24 pm
Termination Notices Sent To 25,000 Private Option Recipients
Arkansas Medicaid officials have sent notices of termination to 25,000 Medicaid beneficiaries, almost all of them recipients of the state’s private option, informing them that they are losing their eligibility because they did not respond to a request for income verification.
by - July 16, 2015 7:07 pm
PSC Approves Final Petition To Intervene In Entergy Rate Case
The Arkansas Public Service Commission (PSC) has granted special status for Scenic Hill Solar LLC to intervene in Entergy Arkansas Inc.’s $167 million rate case “on the condition that it…
by - July 16, 2015 7:03 pm
AG Rutledge Files Comments On EPA’s Proposed Regional Haze Plan
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge said Thursday that her office has submitted comments to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Arkansas’ proposed Regional Haze plan following rejection of the state’s…
by - July 16, 2015 7:00 pm
Gov. Hutchinson Talks Economic Development, Prisons, Foster Children In Jonesboro
The attempt to bring major industry to a state can often start with a phone call or a knock on a door to show that a state is interested, Gov. Asa Hutchinson told a group of Craighead County attorneys Thursday. And, he had much more to say.
by - July 16, 2015 6:51 pm
Senate Approves No Child Left Behind Overhaul
The state’s two U.S. senators voted in the affirmative Thursday as lawmakers approved an education reauthorization bill. The bill, called the Every Child Achieves Act, was approved by an 81-17…
by - July 16, 2015 6:42 pm
STEM Scholarship Created At ASU
A new scholarship program will help young women wishing to study science, technology and engineering and mathematics at Arkansas State University, officials said Thursday. The George and Helen Pratte Memorial…
by - July 16, 2015 6:34 pm
Mercy ready to open new $1.2 million sleep center in Fort Smith
The $1.2 million Mercy Sleep Center in Fort Smith will open Monday (July 20) with six beds and a backlog of patients already around 400, said Chellie Smith, sleep services…
by - July 16, 2015 5:17 pm
Core Public House brew company set to open in downtown Fort Smith (Updated)
Springdale-based Core Brewing and Distilling Co. plans to open on Friday (July 17) its first pub in Fort Smith. The location is 701 Rogers Ave. in downtown Fort Smith, just…
by - July 16, 2015 4:57 pm
Quarterly earnings up 19% for Centennial Bank parent company
Acquisition-hungry Home Bancshares Inc. kept its lucrative winning streak going during the second quarter as the Conway-based banking group reported its most profitable quarter in history on the bank’s strong…
by - July 16, 2015 1:15 pm
Home Bancshares Reports Record Profits On Loan Growth, Earnings Jump 19% From 2014
Acquisition-hungry Home Bancshares Inc. kept its lucrative winning streak going during the second quarter as the Conway-based banking group reported its most profitable quarter in history on the bank’s strong…
by - July 16, 2015 12:30 pm
UA Study: Consumers prefer county-of-origin labeled meats
Meat industry lobbyists succeeded in getting the county-of-origin labels for beef, pork and poultry repealed by the U.S. Congress, but it seems that consumers preferred them. A study by the…
by - July 16, 2015 11:14 am
E-tail giants from Alibaba to Walmart.com face growing consumer expectations
Running an effective e-commerce operation like Amazon at a time when consumers expect more for less is a daunting task. Just ask e-commerce behemoth Alibaba who came into the U.S….
by - July 16, 2015 10:56 am
NWA, Fort Smith area foreclosure filings continue to wind down
Foreclosures across the region, state and much of the nation are returning to their pre-crisis levels according to Irvine, Calif.-based RealtyTrac. The data marketing firm reports local foreclosures are down…
by - July 16, 2015 7:31 am
Report: Number Of Foster Children Rising; State High In Mistreated Children
Arkansas should expand intensive home and community-based health services and develop a plan to reduce caseloads to address a rising foster care population and a high rate of child maltreatments….
by - July 16, 2015 6:11 am
Startup Talk: Global Study Shows Most Companies Behind On Digital Transformation
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