by - June 29, 2015 8:01 pm
A proposal for a five-year, one-cent sales tax to re-open Crittenden Regional Hospital will be on the ballot next month. Crittenden County residents will head to the polls July 14…
by - June 29, 2015 7:56 pm
Officials were hoping for only a slight increase when details of sales tax revenues for Jonesboro and Craighead County were released Friday. Their hopes were supported with figures as both…
by - June 29, 2015 7:44 pm
President Obama’s broad agenda to regulate dirty air emissions suffered a setback on Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should have considered…
by - June 29, 2015 7:27 pm
Arkansas should continue its efforts to establish a state-based insurance exchange, the executive director of the state’s Health Insurance Marketplace said, even though a recent Supreme Court ruling makes it less necessary to do so.
by - June 29, 2015 5:02 pm
The two building sectors across Northwest Arkansas moved in different directions last month as new residential and new commercial permits issued by the region’s four largest cities totaled $57.693 million,…
by - June 29, 2015 4:46 pm
Collections of Arkansas’ 2% tourism tax during the first four months of 2015 totaled $4.247 million, up 7.25% compared to the same period in 2014. Collections for each of the…
by - June 29, 2015 3:59 pm
Hospitality tax collections in the Fort Smith area are showing gains after getting off to a slow start for 2015. The tourism industry is doing well statewide, with collections of…
by - June 29, 2015 1:32 pm
A Pentagon official confirmed over the weekend that a decision on the $30 billion award for Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) project remains on schedule for an award in the…
by - June 29, 2015 1:00 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed a memorandum of understanding with Vietnam’s Dong Nai Province Monday, a day before the province was to announce the opening of a trade office in Bentonville….
by - June 29, 2015 12:02 pm
Beef loving consumers continue to shell out more for hamburgers and steaks as retail fresh beef prices rise higher this summer, according to the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture data….
by - June 29, 2015 11:16 am
Karen O’Donohoe has been named director of the Occupational and Life Skills program at NorthWest Arkansas Community College. The Occupational and Life Skills program (commonly referred to as OLS®…
by - June 29, 2015 7:05 am
The Supreme Court issued two rulings last week. In one, they ended a multi-year lawsuit challenging the federal government’s establishment of a healthcare exchange, which provide insurance subsidies to low-income…
by - June 29, 2015 6:21 am
A Pentagon official confirmed over the weekend that a decision on the $30 billion award for Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) project remains on schedule for an award in the fiscal fourth quarter, which for the U.S. military concludes at the end of September.
by - June 29, 2015 6:09 am
Editor’s note: Each Monday, Talk Business & Politics provides “Money Talk,” a wrap-up of banking and financial news in our email newsletter, which you can sign up to receive daily for free here….
by - June 29, 2015 5:47 am
Editor’s note: Guest columnist Tommy Foltz, a long-time resident of Little Rock, is Executive Vice-President of the Houston-based Consumer Energy Alliance, which has a nationwide network of 400,000 individual consumers…
by - June 28, 2015 9:31 am
After a week in a teen entrepreneurship boot camp, John David Halaway said the experience was a good one to help him manage his own company. What does he do and where is he taking his business?
by - June 28, 2015 9:21 am
HARK, the web TV series media company, announced on their website last week that they are taking a road trip. The trip will last six weeks and it will include…
by - June 28, 2015 9:18 am
The iconic ball cap worn by Sam Walton, a miniature Wal-Mart truck and short biographical stories of Walton’s retail rise are among more than 600 artifacts woven into the fabric of the “American Enterprise” exhibit set to open July 1 at the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
by - June 28, 2015 8:28 am
Editor’s note: Grant Tennille, the author of this guest commentary, is the former executive director of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission. Call it, The Tale of Two Flags. The murder…
by - June 28, 2015 8:17 am
State policy leaders say Arkansans should look for “prudent progress” and an “Arkansas-centric approach” to health insurance reform in the wake of the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling last week in…
