by - February 26, 2013 2:56 pm
Van Buren officials are preparing to make upgrades to seriously old infrastructure during the next few years. According to Steve Defresne, director of municipal utilities, the city of Van Buren…
by - February 26, 2013 2:28 pm
Joe Edwards and John Taylor are two of the most optimistic and positive people you could meet, but their assessment of economic conditions are anything but optimistic and positive. Edwards,…
by - February 26, 2013 1:29 pm
House Speaker Davy Carter, R-Cabot, sprinted through three House committees this morning telling members that it was the “start of the third quarter.” He urged House members of the Judiciary,…
by - February 25, 2013 6:11 pm
Regional sales tax collections in the first two months of 2013 are running slightly behind a year ago with $8.536 million returned to the four largest cities in the two-county…
by - February 25, 2013 4:20 pm
The Northwest Arkansas region is known for being a hotbed of entrepreneurialism and start-up businesses, but also where some of the world’s most prominent retailers and suppliers have a well-established…
by - February 25, 2013 1:18 pm
When the sales tax increase requested by Ozark Regional Transit failed in May 2012, many who voted “no” said it was because they didn’t think that the organization was operating…
by - February 25, 2013 12:44 pm
If you ask Crawford County Sheriff Ron Brown what the county's biggest need is right now, he will say a new jail. The county jail is at capacity and some…
by - February 25, 2013 11:57 am
In the 2014 Governor’s race, Republican Asa Hutchinson has an early lead over two potential Democratic rivals, Mike Ross and Bill Halter. The latest Talk Business-Hendrix College Poll of 675…
by - February 24, 2013 12:30 pm
Gov. Mike Beebe (D) remains immensely popular with Arkansas voters who give his job performance a supermajority thumbs-up. The Arkansas legislature and U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., remain in positive…
by - February 22, 2013 4:42 pm
House Speaker Davy Carter, R-Cabot, says fellow legislators are seeking answers on federal Medicaid flexibility from Gov. Mike Beebe’s Friday afternoon meeting with U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen…
by - February 22, 2013 9:48 am
Of the eight metro areas within or connected to Arkansas, only the Fort Smith area saw a GDP decrease in 2011 compared to the beginning of the recession in 2008….
by - February 22, 2013 7:42 am
A new Talk Business-Hendrix College survey finds that support for a $125 million bond issue for the state’s first superproject is popular, and legislation to allow faculty members on college…
by - February 21, 2013 8:32 pm
The almost 6,000 people in Northwest Arkansas working for the about 1,300 companies in the area vying for space on Wal-Mart shelves have become a valued resource pool from which…
by - February 21, 2013 5:31 pm
Dave Hughes is convinced that the Home Show and home parades conducted by the Greater Fort Smith Association of Home Builders are business generators for the region’s residential home market….
by - February 21, 2013 4:34 pm
Benefit Bank of Fort Smith has provided two gifts totaling $300,000 to the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, with university officials saying the gifts will have a positive impact…
by - February 21, 2013 3:51 pm
Ask Jeff Amerine about entrepreneurialism and the potential of creating jobs from university research and he becomes evangelical, passionately moving from one possibility to the next. “There are so many…
by - February 21, 2013 1:29 pm
Employees not following proper reporting channels resulted in Thursday morning mass e-mail to more than 900 e-mail addresses by Ray Gosack, the Fort Smith city administrator. In the e-mail, Gosack…
by - February 21, 2013 12:52 pm
The latest Talk Business-Hendrix College survey of Arkansas voters tested a battery of questions related to abortion, Medicaid, guns, a steel mill superproject and Arkansas political figures. During the next…
by - February 21, 2013 6:33 am
Wall Street eyes were staring at Wal-Mart Thursday morning (Feb. 21) looking for any morsel of insight into the health of the overall economy as the retailer recently leaked a…
by - February 20, 2013 10:02 pm
Margaret Christensen, education coordinator for the Schmieding Center, says she runs the Bella Vista Health Resource Center with the help of roughly 30 volunteers – and the average age is…
