by - October 31, 2018 8:46 pm
According to the Arkansas Ethics Commission web site, there have been a couple of late entrants in the ballot question committee category. On Oct. 22 and 23, a ballot question…
by - October 31, 2018 7:28 pm
Soybean farmers have been inundated with challenges this season and those problems continued through the end of October. As of Monday (Oct. 28) about 63% of Arkansas’ 3.25 million soybean…
by - October 31, 2018 7:25 pm
Higher fuel costs and rising pump prices cut into third quarter profits for Murphy USA, Inc. Wednesday (Oct. 31) as the Arkansas convenience store operator seeks to improve margins across…
by - October 31, 2018 6:31 pm
With more than 4,600 U.S. store locations, Walmart continues to seek opportunities to use its massive footprint in unique ways such as anchoring “town centers” to improve consumer experiences. L.B….
by - October 31, 2018 12:01 pm
The parent company of Entergy Arkansas on Wednesday (Oct. 31) upped the company’s yearly earnings forecast as the utility giant’s profits in the third quarter jumped nearly 35% from a…
by - October 30, 2018 6:04 pm
Retail returns remain a challenge for even the largest retailers like Walmart and Amazon. A recent report from Optoro, a Washington, D.C.-based provider of returns optimization software, found the impact…
by - October 30, 2018 5:57 pm
President Donald Trump wants to increase access to retirement plans, reduce costs to offer them and change required withdrawals from them to ensure retirees don’t run out of savings in…
by - October 30, 2018 11:28 am
Consumers recently surveyed by San Diego-based CPC Strategy overwhelmingly (80.1%) said they will shop Amazon for Christmas gifts this year. Walmart came in second with 57% of respondents planning to…
by - October 29, 2018 4:32 pm
Talk Business & Politics is partnering with the Arkansas State University Delta Center for Economic Development to continue producing the closely watched The Compass Report. The Compass Report is the…
by - October 29, 2018 4:16 pm
A little more than $63 million in interstate rehab and signage work in Crawford, Benton, Sebastian and Washington counties has been approved by the Arkansas Highway Commission, with most of…
by - October 29, 2018 3:09 pm
The integration of arts into curriculum across the University of Arkansas campus has begun, with the first professor being cross-appointed between the Sam M. Walton College of Business and the…
by - October 29, 2018 6:16 am
What’s worse than being a home underdog to Vanderbilt? How about getting blown out by the perennial SEC cellar dwellers, 45-31? The Commodores (4-4 overall, 1-4 SEC) routed the Razorbacks (2-7, 0-5)…
by - October 28, 2018 11:03 am
While Arkansas’ unemployment rate has fallen to an all-time low of 3.5%, UA economist Mervin Jebaraj warns that there is a troubling trend of younger workers dropping out of the…
by - October 28, 2018 10:28 am
Arkansas Children’s CEO Marcy Doderer said one of the state’s largest health care systems will raise its minimum wage for entry level jobs to $14 per hour in the next…
by - October 28, 2018 10:01 am
U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said America can exert enough pressure to force Saudi Arabia to toe the line on its investigation into a troubling murder of a journalist, and…
by - October 26, 2018 7:07 pm
Walmart has agreed to a proposed settlement with the City of Pontiac, Mich., General Employees Retirement System that would put an end to fraud allegations in this case brought against…
by - October 25, 2018 6:54 pm
Former Clemson quarterback Kelly Bryant visited Arkansas last weekend between trips to North Carolina, Missouri, and potentially other schools. Where do you think he will play next season? Greg Houser:…
by - October 25, 2018 6:33 pm
The United States Department of Agriculture intends to move its Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture out of Washington D.C. and Arkansas Agriculture Secretary…
by - October 25, 2018 5:47 pm
Jim Mote was an 18-year-old farm boy picking cotton in northeast Arkansas one morning when he saw a military truck approaching. It was September 1957, and Mote — one of…
by - October 25, 2018 5:20 pm
In the wake of a coordinated bomb scare targeting two former Presidents, a former Vice-president, Democratic officials and critics of President Trump, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., says Americans should appeal…
