by - February 15, 2016 12:59 am
Editor’s note: Each Monday, Talk Business & Politics provides “Money Talk,” a wrap-up of banking and financial news. –––––––––––– FDIC RELEASES 2016 STRESS TESTING FOR BANKS WITH ASSETS OF $10 BILLION OR…
by - February 14, 2016 8:15 pm
Editor’s note: Each Sunday, Talk Business & Politics provides “Made In America,” a round-up of state and global manufacturing news. –––––––––––––– COMMERCE DEPARTMENT’S BUDGET FOCUSES ON EXPANDED U.S. MANUFACTURING CENTERS…
by - February 14, 2016 2:48 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) has floated the idea of cutting the state’s largest economic development incentive program as a funding source for highways, but the idea is being resisted by…
by - February 13, 2016 6:25 pm
Editor’s note: Story updated with press conference statements from President Barack Obama, and analysis from former Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel. –––––––––––––– U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who was…
by - February 12, 2016 10:32 pm
TV PREVIEW On this week’s TV edition of Talk Business & Politics, which airs Sundays at 9:30 a.m. on KATV Channel 7 in Central Arkansas and now in Northeast Arkansas…
by - February 12, 2016 8:56 pm
President Barack Obama’s 2017 budget received a proverbial cold shoulder this week from the state’s congressional delegation, while discussions continued over agriculture and the overall federal budget. The following is…
by - February 12, 2016 8:49 pm
Attorney Travis Story walked into the Jonesboro City Clerk’s office late Friday afternoon with 5,034 signatures on 585 pages of petitions, seeking to repeal the recently approved Jonesboro city property…
by - February 12, 2016 4:19 pm
Anchor Dawson Meadows lodges a complaint against developer Lance Beaty for trying to do to much to improve Fort Smith. “What happened to just going on the Internets, behind a…
by - February 12, 2016 9:49 am
Far from overtaking the United States as the world’s greatest economy, China is a country beset by supply chain problems and corruption and is a threat only in the unsafe…
by - February 12, 2016 5:19 am
Editor’s note: Each Friday, Talk Business & Politics provides “Energy In-depth,” a round-up of energy and regulatory news. U.S. MINING AND EXPLORATION INVESTMENT DECLINED 35% IN 2015 Mining and exploration…
by - February 11, 2016 9:30 pm
Ernest and Cheree Shunn of Lowell have been best friends and partners in nearly everything they have done for the past 32 years. The couple worked at APEX Tools in…
by - February 11, 2016 9:06 pm
The city of Fort Smith on Thursday (Feb. 11) received from a headhunter firm nine applications for the city administrator job, with two having military experience and one appearing to…
by - February 11, 2016 8:42 pm
The Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce for the first time is making independent expenditures in state legislative races. The expenditures are paying for mailers backing candidates who support Gov. Asa…
by - February 11, 2016 6:38 pm
Steve Clark’s renovation of the historic Friedman-Mincer building is move-in ready for Propak employees. But it wasn’t redesigned just to be a corporate office. Clark hopes it is a building…
by - February 11, 2016 4:00 pm
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) said Northwest Arkansas is a place where inspired leadership has achieved phenomenal success on the world stage despite the sometimes crippling hands of government. Hutchinson…
by - February 11, 2016 1:41 pm
The 2015 Baloney Sandwich Index wasn’t too far off Fort Smith metro job growth numbers during the year, but it doesn’t necessarily indicate an improving jobs scene in the area…
by - February 11, 2016 10:33 am
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, Talk Business & Politics provides “Startup Talk,” a round-up of startup, technology and entrepreneurial news. ARKANSAS RANKS AS THIRD TIER STATE FOR ‘INNOVATION FRIENDLY’ POLICIES Twelve states and…
by - February 10, 2016 8:58 pm
Editor’s note: Notes from the Campaign Trail is a compilation of various political insider tidbits and is sponsored by Little Rock-based Capitol Advisors Group. ––––––––––––––––––––– NEW AD, WEB SITE IN…
by - February 10, 2016 7:04 pm
A day after the Little Rock Technology Park Authority (LRTPA) closed on a multimillion dollar financial arrangement and a real estate deal to jump start the first phase of the…
by - February 10, 2016 6:35 pm
Fort Smith is on pace to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars annually on parking meters in the downtown area, according to financial reports from the city’s department of finance….
