by - July 7, 2015 2:37 pm
The Steel Horse Rally
The 2nd Annual Steel Horse Rally will roar into Fort Smith, Arkansas April 29 & 30 2016. This open rally features great live music from national and regional acts! The…
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by - July 7, 2015 2:06 pm
FFO Home to move headquarters, 64 jobs to Fort Smith
FFO Home – once known as Furniture Factory Outlet – is moving its corporate headquarters from Muldrow to Fort Smith, locating operations in a 180,000-square-foot part of a former Whirlpool warehouse that…
by - July 7, 2015 1:29 pm
Arkansas, Oklahoma Governors defend 10 Commandments monuments
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Tuesday (July 7) defended a plan to place a 10 Commandments monument on State Capitol grounds, while also on Tuesday Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin said…
by - July 7, 2015 12:49 pm
Fort Smith City Clerk elected president of state association
Fort Smith City Clerk Sherri Gard has been elected president of the Arkansas City Clerks, Recorders, Treasurers Association (ACCRTA). City Administrator Ray Gosack said Gard’s leadership position is a reflection…
by - July 7, 2015 11:25 am
Economic developers focus on Walmart manufacturing summit (Updated)
More economic development officials from around Arkansas are expected to attend the third year of the high-profile Walmart “Manufacturing Summit” now that it is being held in Bentonville, said Joey…
by - July 7, 2015 9:01 am
Dr. Heaser joins Cooper Clinic internal medicine department
Dr. Amita Heaser is joining the Cooper Clinic department of Internal Medicine in Fort Smith. An adult medicine specialist, Heaser completed her medical training at Rush University Medical Center in…
by - July 6, 2015 6:13 pm
Public charter sought for ‘Future School of Fort Smith,’ seeks 2016 opening
Fort Smith business leaders, working with the Fort Smith Public School District and the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, are moving forward with a plan to open by August…
by - July 6, 2015 5:18 pm
Gov. Hutchinson appoints members to new Career Education and Workforce Development Board
Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Monday (July 6) announced the members of the Career Education and Workforce Development Board, which replaced the State Board of Career Education at the Department of…
by - July 6, 2015 4:52 pm
Volunteering, living life without things important to Maggie Malloy
Throughout Maggie Malloy’s life she has accumulated many things that would constitute “the good life,” but her enjoyment of life comes from much more than things. Graceful, energetic, and artistic,…
by - July 6, 2015 4:20 pm
USA Truck garners attention from the Journal of Commerce
Van Buren-based USA Truck is ranked No. 43 in the Journal Of Commerce’s Top 50 Trucking Companies for 2014. The Journal of Commerce and SJ Consulting Group annually rank the…
by - July 6, 2015 4:14 pm
Kindrick joins Sparks SeniorCare Behavioral unit
Dr. Kristi Kindrick has joined Sparks Regional Medical Center’s geriatric-psychiatric unit, SeniorCare Behavioral Health. She will treat seniors who are admitted into the hospital. Kindrick’s primary focus will be caring…
by - July 6, 2015 12:48 pm
Simplicity drives some CEOs to wear personal, company uniforms
Business legends Steve Jobs and Don Tyson did it, and their successors Tim Cook and Donnie Smith also do it. That is they dressed down, so to speak, as CEOs…
by - July 6, 2015 9:58 am
AEDC’s Mike Preston bullish on Arkansas, eager to improve state’s image
Mike Preston, the new executive director of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission, sits in his fourth-floor office overlooking Capitol Avenue in downtown Little Rock on a sunny late-spring afternoon, sipping…
by - July 6, 2015 9:41 am
Hillary, Huckabee face an uncertain Arkansas electorate in 2016
Arkansas, ever a peculiar place, either has two presidential candidates or none, unless you could say, as you probably can, that it has one more than it has the other….
by - July 5, 2015 6:19 pm
The jobs hole
Recent numbers reflect well on the Fort Smith metro economy, but there remains a four-letter word that makes unpleasant a more in-depth conversation: Jobs. Positive economic headlines have been frequent…
by - July 5, 2015 2:24 pm
Number of Arkansas private option enrollees up June, cost per person dips
The number of enrollees in the Medicaid private option reached 218,376 at the end of June, an increase of about 4,000 from May, when it totaled 214,461. The number of…
by - July 5, 2015 2:02 pm
Our naïve idea about Iraq
Some Iraqis are now beginning to say the country should be divided into regions composed of Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds. The Kurds have pretty much gone their own way, the…
by - July 5, 2015 1:32 pm
Boozman gives GOP weekly address, Cotton critical of Cuban embassy news
Congress may have been in recess for the 4th of July holiday, but members of the state’s congressional delegation were in Arkansas this past week talking to voters and discussing…
by - July 3, 2015 11:34 am
Thompson named to leadership role for Arkansas Bankers Association
Kevin Thompson was appointed as the 2015-16 Emerging Leaders Section Council President at the Arkansas Bankers Association Leadership Conference in Fayetteville on Friday, June 26. Thompson is a 1998 graduate…
by - July 3, 2015 11:22 am
Book Signing with Anita Paddock
Book Signing with Anita Paddock Blind Rage Thursday, July 23, 2015 Begins at 4:00 p. m. with a program at 6:00 p. m. Join the Fort Smith Museum of History…