by - February 17, 2022 5:32 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Thursday (Feb. 17) said he has reestablished a Women’s commission, with his Chief of Staff Alison Williams serving as commission chair. Williams said the commission’s first…
by - February 17, 2022 2:26 pm
Attorney Jody Shackelford told Talk Business & Politics Thursday (Feb. 17) he will seek to unseat First District U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Jonesboro, in the Republican primary. Shackelford, 36, of…
by - February 17, 2022 2:18 pm
A new traffic congestion report from American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) shows how the three-month closure of the Interstate 40 Hernando de Soto Bridge last year affected the annual list…
by - February 17, 2022 12:17 pm
All engines are firing at Walmart as the Bentonville-based retailer reported net income for the holiday quarter of $3.562 billion, or $1.28 per share, well ahead of the 74-cent loss…
by - February 17, 2022 11:09 am
Waldo’s Chicken & Beer is scheduled to open its first Arkansas location on March 15th, according to a news release from JTJ Restaurants LLC, the local restaurant group behind eight…
by - February 16, 2022 6:45 pm
Rogers-based America’s Car-Mart Inc. posted an earnings decrease and a revenue increase amid mixed sales volumes attributed to COVID-19 in the third quarter of fiscal 2022. After the markets closed…
by - February 16, 2022 3:05 pm
Arkansas voters are evenly split on allowing businesses to impose vaccine mandates for workers, a slight change from six months ago, according to a new Talk Business & Politics-Hendrix College…
by - February 16, 2022 2:59 pm
An estimated 69 million U.S. households made grocery purchases online in January, ringing up sales of $8.5 billion, according to a Brick Meets Click/Mercatus shopping survey. Overall sales were down…
by - February 15, 2022 3:39 pm
A measure to broaden the legalization of marijuana has majority support among Arkansas voters, while a legislative effort to raise the passage threshold for ballot initiatives to 60% is opposed…
by - February 15, 2022 3:16 pm
An easy, one-stop place for a summary of economic and political issues and conditions in Arkansas and nationally can be found with the recently concluded Talk Business & Politics State…
by - February 15, 2022 1:18 pm
Arkansas’ PEV (plug-in electric vehicles) market is growing but remains a minuscule fraction of the state’s overall automobile industry. According to data from the Arkansas Department of Finance Administration, 2,094…
by - February 15, 2022 11:45 am
Arkansas cattle inventories declined for the third straight year, falling more than 5% from January 2021 estimates. State cattle farmers liquidated about 90,000 cattle and calves, according to the January…
by - February 15, 2022 11:39 am
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has been awarded a $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to fund COVID-19 outreach efforts…
by - February 15, 2022 11:37 am
King Aerospace Commercial Corp., an aircraft services company of Dallas-based King Aerospace Inc., will lease two hangars at Northwest Arkansas National Airport (XNA) in Highfill and begin operating there in…
by - February 15, 2022 9:17 am
Shippers can expect this year to be a continuation of 2021 with capacity constraints and high freight rates amid shortages of transportation equipment and qualified truck drivers, a trucking executive…
by - February 14, 2022 6:38 pm
Walmart was seen as a “winner” in retail amid the pandemic of the past year and when the company reports fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday (Feb. 17). Net income is expected…
by - February 14, 2022 5:05 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson closed out his final state of the state speech to the Arkansas legislature with a litany of accomplishments, a laundry list of budget requests, and a liturgy…
by - February 14, 2022 3:57 pm
Less than nine months until Election Day, Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders has a roughly 10-point lead over a generic Democratic nominee in the race for Arkansas governor. Sanders was the…
by - February 14, 2022 3:55 pm
CARTI announced Monday (Feb. 14) the opening of the CARTI Cancer Center in Pine Bluff, located at 5001 Bobo Road. The center provides medical and radiation oncology, imaging services, including…
by - February 13, 2022 3:07 pm
Volatile weather plagued Arkansas farmers in 2021 and it threatened to impact the number of acres harvested and yields for many crops. Cotton was expected to be hit particularly hard…
