by - April 21, 2010 4:35 pm
Rep. Frank Glidewell says he’s raised about enough campaign money. Jim Medley says he’ll need another $20,000 to compete effectively to the May 18 primary election. Glidewell, Medley and Jake…
by - April 21, 2010 1:04 pm
story and photos by Roy Hill [email protected] Lakeisha Robbins knows the difficulties of facing joblessness, a felony record, and long odds. But she also knows the rewards of finding a…
by - April 20, 2010 9:04 pm
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is reporting that it and Fort Smith-based Arkansas Best Corp. have reached a tentative agreement on 15% pay cuts through 2013 for the roughly 6,000…
by - April 20, 2010 8:35 pm
story and photo by Marla Cantrell [email protected] Work is “substantially” ahead of schedule on the new Oxane Materials plant in Van Buren’s Industrial Park. Mayor Bob Freeman met with representatives…
by - April 20, 2010 4:00 pm
More than 40 Oklahoma and Arkansas business and political leaders gathered in the Fort Smith area on Tuesday (April 20) took the first formal steps to try for a third…
by - April 20, 2010 10:39 am
review by Peter Lewis [email protected] Sam Bush is one of the truly great musicians of the past 40 years. Whether as a member of the New Grass Revival, a sideman,…
by - April 20, 2010 6:58 am
story by Marla Cantrell [email protected] They sat together in four rows at Monday night’s city council meeting in Van Buren, waiting for the vote to rezone a piece of property…
by - April 19, 2010 6:28 pm
Fort Smith attorney Gunner DeLay is the only Republican candidate in the 3rd District GOP primary to not be shown as returning a questionnaire asking candidates their position on the…
by - April 19, 2010 5:12 pm
A Monday political forum was an agreeable discussion among Republican candidates that taxes are too high, governments spend too much and the newly approved federal health care bill is bad….
by - April 19, 2010 5:11 pm
The consensus among Republican candidates in three Fort Smith legislative races is that the new federal health care bill will burden the state budget, but there was some variation in…
by - April 19, 2010 11:12 am
Thinly traded First Federal Bancshares revised its fourth quarter and year-end results for 2009 on Friday, citing the "Great Recession’s" affect on the Harrison bank’s loan portfolio. According to First…
by - April 17, 2010 6:15 pm
Dick Morris made good on his promise to apologize to Rogers Mayor Steve Womack. Sort of. The apology was necessary because Morris on April 15 encouraged attendees of Tea Party…
by - April 16, 2010 12:08 pm
Arkansas’ unemployment rate moved higher for the second consecutive month, reaching 7.8% in March from 7.7% in February and up from 7.6% in January. The state’s jobless rate in March…
by - April 16, 2010 12:07 pm
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 - April 15, 2010 11:02 pm
review by Peter Lewis [email protected] The word innovator is bandied around so much that its descriptive effectiveness is tainted. The resonating power is lost. This is troublesome when one is…
by - April 15, 2010 6:17 pm
by - April 15, 2010 5:41 pm
At the Tea Party events held Thursday in Fayetteville and Fort Smith (April 15), political author and consultant Dick Morris encouraged the hundreds gathered to not vote for Rogers Mayor…
by - April 15, 2010 3:47 pm
Editor’s note: Link here for an update to this story. The Tea Party events held Thursday (April 15) in Fayetteville and Fort Smith took an unexpected and overt political tone…
by - April 15, 2010 11:37 am
Fort Smith businessman and community advocate Philip Merry announced Thursday (April 15) that he will run for the Position 7 (at-large) Fort Smith City Director position. Dr. Cole Goodman has…
by - April 15, 2010 10:37 am
story by Marla Cantrell [email protected] Eat at Zaxby’s. That was the message at Wednesday’s (April 14) meeting of the Van Buren Advertising and Promotion Commission. The commissioners discussed the restaurant’s…
