by - April 20, 2010 6:58 am
story by Marla Cantrell [email protected] They sat together in four rows at Monday night’s city council meeting in Van Buren, waiting for the vote to rezone a piece of property…
by - April 19, 2010 11:12 am
Thinly traded First Federal Bancshares revised its fourth quarter and year-end results for 2009 on Friday, citing the "Great Recession’s" affect on the Harrison bank’s loan portfolio. According to First…
by - April 16, 2010 2:03 pm
After using the new device, Kirkham sticks to his claim that the iPad is a game changer and a Kindle killer.
by - April 16, 2010 12:08 pm
Arkansas’ unemployment rate moved higher for the second consecutive month, reaching 7.8% in March from 7.7% in February and up from 7.6% in January. The state’s jobless rate in March…
by - April 16, 2010 12:07 pm
Following are recent bankruptcy and incorporation filings from Crawford, Franklin, Logan and Sebastian counties. The information is provided by The Daily Record. a Little Rock-based news and legal information publisher….
by - April 15, 2010 10:37 am
story by Marla Cantrell [email protected] Eat at Zaxby’s. That was the message at Wednesday’s (April 14) meeting of the Van Buren Advertising and Promotion Commission. The commissioners discussed the restaurant’s…
by - April 15, 2010 7:00 am
Fort Smith regional foreclosure activity for the first quarter of 2010 is up more than 201%, according to the closely watched RealtyTrac report. However, a sharp rise in foreclosures in…
by - April 14, 2010 3:41 pm
J.B Hunt Transport Services Inc. started the first three months of the year in impressive fashion, posting strong first quarter profits that easily beat analysts’ expectations and pushed the company’s…
by - April 13, 2010 4:19 pm
Enplanements at the Fort Smith Regional Airport for the first three months of 2010 total 17,503, down 2.3% from the same period in 2009. Unfortunately, the total enplanements in 2009…
by - April 13, 2010 9:54 am
Arkansas pump prices will likely top $3 gallon during the upcoming summer traveling season. Regular-grade gasoline retail prices, which averaged $2.44 per gallon last summer, are projected to average $2.92…
by - April 13, 2010 7:27 am
Stockman suggests that even the best business model will fail without effective leadership.
by - April 12, 2010 4:22 pm
Proposed tuition and fee increases within the University of Arkansas system could mean University of Arkansas at Fort Smith students see their total semester bill go from $4,600 a semester…
by - April 12, 2010 8:16 am
The financial community will get a better gauge of the current economic recovery when Arkansas’ publicly traded companies began issuing first quarter financial reports this week. Besides Wal-Mart and Dillard’s…
by - April 9, 2010 1:34 pm
When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the health care bill would have to first be approved before Americans could learn what was in it, she wasn’t kidding. Cal Kellogg, senior…
by - April 8, 2010 3:50 pm
Following are recent bankruptcy and incorporation filings from Crawford, Franklin, Logan and Sebastian counties. The information is provided by The Daily Record. a Little Rock-based news and legal information publisher….
by - April 8, 2010 8:50 am
A little more than three months after the Town Club closed, one of the more impressive and modern buildings on Garrison Avenue remains empty. Sam T. Sicard, vice president of…
by - April 8, 2010 7:27 am
story and photo by Marla Cantrell [email protected] I discovered the radio call-in program Dial a Deal while driving to work one morning. The first call was a woman trying to…
by - April 7, 2010 1:01 pm
Fort Smith sales tax collections continue to fall but the decline is less than the 8.9% dip in 2009 compared to 2008. A February report from City Finance Director Kara…
by - April 7, 2010 12:03 pm
The Fort Smith metro area unemployment rate February was 8.8%, a small drop from the 8.9% rate in January, but still one of the highest metro rates in Arkansas. The…
by - April 7, 2010 7:10 am
The Fort Smith Board of Directors approved names for an ad hoc committee Tuesday night that is charged with coming up with funding and/or operations options for the Fort Smith…
