by - February 14, 2011 4:24 pm
Editor’s note: Roby Brock, with our content partner Talk Business, wrote this report. He can be reached at [email protected] Rep. Kathy Webb, D-Little Rock, certainly has influence over where the…
by - February 14, 2011 12:54 pm
A relative decline in Fort Smith population is likely to reduce the city’s annual tax and turnback revenue by at least $340,000 beginning in fiscal year 2012. The calculation, from…
by - February 14, 2011 8:34 am
Editor’s note: Roby Brock, with our content partner Talk Business, wrote this report. He can be reached at [email protected] Rep. Jonathan Barnett, R-Siloam Springs has been charged with a daunting…
by - February 14, 2011 8:10 am
Editor’s note: Rep. Leslee Milam-Post, D-Ozark, provided the following commentary on the previous week of the 88th Arkansas General Assembly. A monumental vote took place this week in the House…
by - February 10, 2011 2:43 pm
Fort Smith’s population grew by 7.4% between 2000 and 2010, with the city remaining Arkansas’ second largest behind Little Rock. However, if growth trends continue, Fort Smith could fall to…
by - February 10, 2011 11:18 am
Editor’s note: Roby Brock, with our content partner Talk Business, wrote this report. He can be reached at [email protected] An omnibus bill aimed at controlling Arkansas’ ever-growing prison population is…
by - February 9, 2011 4:26 pm
Editor’s note: Roby Brock, with our content partner Talk Business, wrote this report. He can be reached at [email protected] While Arkansas ushered in three new federal representatives and returned one…
by - February 9, 2011 11:48 am
A rescheduled hearing on a study to close the mail processing center in Fort Smith is set for 6 p.m., Feb. 24 at the Holiday Inn City Center in Fort…
by - February 9, 2011 8:11 am
Editor’s note: Roby Brock, with our content partner Talk Business, wrote this report. He can be reached at [email protected] This legislative session the debate over tax cuts won’t end with…
by - February 8, 2011 3:28 pm
Arkansas could get relief from some of its debt owed to the federal government, according to several national reports hinting at potential plans from President Obama’s 2012 proposed budget. According…
by - February 8, 2011 2:53 pm
A vote on a 1% prepared food tax to support the Fort Smith Convention Center appears headed to a municipal election that could be held as early as April 12….
by - February 8, 2011 1:48 pm
Editor’s note: Roby Brock, with our content partner Talk Business, wrote this report. He can be reached at [email protected] Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Jay Bradford on Tuesday (Feb. 4) briefed the…
by - February 7, 2011 7:54 pm
P.K. Holmes III, a Fort Smith attorney who was first recommended for a federal judgeship in December 2009, was confirmed Monday (Feb. 7) by the U.S. Senate to serve on…
by - February 7, 2011 2:05 pm
Officials in the Arkansas hospitality and tourism sector say two proposed bills in the Arkansas Senate would make it difficult if not impossible to be competitive with other states in…
by - February 7, 2011 12:12 pm
Sheffield Nelson picked up where he left off in 2008 by filing paperwork on Monday (Feb. 7) with the Attorney General’s office to lead an initiated act to raise Arkansas’…
by - February 7, 2011 11:58 am
At a special called Monday morning (Feb. 7), the Fort Smith Advertising & Promotion Commission put its stamp of approval on a proposed Fort Smith Convention Center lease agreement and…
by - February 7, 2011 7:21 am
Editor’s note: Arkansas Sen. Jake Files, R-Fort Smith, provided the following commentary on the previous week of the 88th Arkansas General Assembly. This past week at the Capitol was slowed…
by - February 7, 2011 7:11 am
Editor’s note: Rep. Leslee Milam-Post, D-Ozark, provided the following commentary on the previous week of the 88th Arkansas General Assembly. The House approved a measure that would ban the use…
by - February 4, 2011 10:11 am
In a little more than a week, Arkansans are going to read and hear a lot of the details regarding prison reform measures emerging from a Pew Center study on…
by - February 3, 2011 8:50 pm
Here we go again. Fort Smith City Director Philip Merry Jr. has requested the Fort Smith Board of Directors reconsider a policy change that would give the Fort Smith city…
