by - November 8, 2010 10:08 pm
The first 2.5 hours of Fort Smith’s fiscal year 2011 budget hearings were calm and quiet, with most of the comments from city directors and recently elected members of the…
by - November 8, 2010 4:56 pm
story submitted by the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith Dr. Michael L. Looper of Greenwood is one of 85 researchers who will receive the Presidential Early Career Awards for…
by - November 8, 2010 3:47 pm
A company based in Ireland that produces resins for printing ink announced Monday (Nov. 8) it will build a new plant in Crossett, Ark., resulting in 121 new jobs for…
by - November 8, 2010 12:11 pm
The Fort Smith board of directors will review $202,700 in recommended funding for 25 community agencies operating in the areas of recreation, arts and humanities and social/community services. In years…
by - November 8, 2010 9:31 am
Area jobless figures may point to a haphazard economic recovery, but Fort Smith and Van Buren hospitality collections suggest stronger signs of life in the regional economy. Van Buren hospitality…
by - November 5, 2010 5:38 pm
There appears to be a resolution over what was a brewing squabble among the cities of Fort Smith and Little Rock and the Arkansas Municipal League. In early October, the…
by - November 5, 2010 5:08 pm
The Arkansas House of Representatives met for its organizational meeting today, with committee assignments set for new and returning members. There are 43 new members in the 100-member House, which…
by - November 5, 2010 3:04 pm
The fracas between Tom Fite and State Rep.-elect Leslee Post appears far from over. Prior to the Nov. 2 election, Fite (R) faced Leslee Milam Post (D) for the Arkansas…
by - November 5, 2010 2:30 pm
Dennis Jungmeyer summarized the obvious when asked what he thought about the top issue in the upcoming Arkansas General Assembly. “It will all come back to money,” Jungmeyer, president of…
by - November 5, 2010 1:53 pm
The largest employer in the Fort Smith metro area between September 2008 and September 2010 was probably the unemployment compensation system of the Arkansas Department of Workforce Services. It was…
by - November 5, 2010 12:27 pm
story by Gary Brown, president of College Sports Matchups (CSM is a content partner with The City Wire) [email protected] Arkansas head coach Bobby Petrino is against cheap and dirty play….
by - November 5, 2010 11:02 am
Following are recent bankruptcy and incorporation filings from Crawford, Franklin, Logan and Sebastian counties. The information is provided by The Daily Record. a Little Rock-based news and legal information publisher….
by - November 4, 2010 5:30 pm
Members and members-elect of the Arkansas Senate gathered in Little Rock on Thursday (Nov. 4) to elect leaders and make committee appointments, with Sen. Ruth Whitaker, R-Cedarville, named vice chair…
by - November 4, 2010 12:05 pm
story by Chris Rushing, College Sports Matchups (CSM is a content partner with The City Wire) [email protected] Stewart Mandel of Sports Illustrated is one of my favorite writers. His style…
by - November 4, 2010 11:47 am
When George Catsavis, Philip Merry Jr., and Pam Weber are sworn in as the three new members of the seven-member Fort Smith board of directors, they’ll face two major issues…
by - November 4, 2010 10:50 am
The call is out again for the Fort Smith region to come out and support “Christmas Honors” — an effort that in December 2009 placed a wreath at the roughly…
by - November 3, 2010 5:09 pm
Murphy Oil Corp.’s profits rose 7.4 percent in the third quarter primarily due to better earnings from U.S. retail marketing and ethanol production operations, the El Dorado oil giant reported…
by - November 3, 2010 4:09 pm
Following is the final Sebastian County totals from the Nov. 2, 2010 general election. (Numbers to the right of vote counts reflect vote percentage.) PRECINCTS COUNTED (OF 91) 91 100.00…
by - November 3, 2010 3:52 pm
Dr. Jay Barth says the possibility exists that Republican “mavericks” newly elected to the Arkansas House and Senate hold the potential to undo the election gains the Republican Party made…
by - November 3, 2010 12:36 pm
Jobless figures, released Wednesday (Nov. 3) by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, show that the Pine Bluff area was the only one of eight Arkansas metro areas that saw…
