by - August 10, 2016 1:08 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Wednesday (Aug. 10) said he was not going to try to “get into Donald Trump’s mind” to try and figure out recent comments the Republican candidate…
by - August 10, 2016 12:38 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin and three members of the state’s congressional delegation all gathered together on Wednesday at a North Little Rock petroleum storage facility off the…
by - August 10, 2016 9:05 am
A major manufacturing organization has targeted the growing isolationist rhetoric within the U.S. in the wake of the U.K.’s decision to leave the European Union. National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)…
by - August 9, 2016 8:50 pm
Fayetteville voters on Tuesday (Aug. 9) approved a millage increase that will help pay for an almost $50 million expansion of the city’s public library. Two questions were on the…
by - August 9, 2016 8:49 pm
Bryant voters on Tuesday (Aug. 9) approved a three-year extension of an existing 0.5% sales tax for a $23 million bond issue and voted for three improvement projects that it…
by - August 9, 2016 8:49 pm
Bryant voters on Tuesday (Aug. 9) approved a three-year extension of an existing 0.5% sales tax for a $23 million bond issue and voted for three improvement projects that it…
by - August 9, 2016 8:45 pm
Fort Smith Director George Catsavis will face off against challenger Neal Martin for the Fort Smith Ward 4 City Director position on the Nov. 8 general election ballot. Following Tuesday…
by - August 9, 2016 8:00 pm
The number of individuals who qualify for the state’s Arkansas Works program cannot be capped under federal law, Attorney General Leslie Rutledge wrote in an opinion released Monday. Rutledge was…
by - August 9, 2016 4:57 pm
In Tuesday’s Talk Business & Politics Daily digital newscast, Arkansas State University system president Dr. Charles “Chuck” Welch answers questions tied to a new osteopathic medicine school, Dr. Tim Hudson’s…
by - August 9, 2016 2:27 pm
Fort Smith City Administrator Carl Geffken has announced the names of the finalists for the city’s three open department head positions. Out of 82 applicants, the city has narrowed it…
by - August 9, 2016 8:22 am
Fort Smith administration has shed additional light on the status of job search costs for three of the city’s top positions, with those expenses already beyond $40,000. In a recent…
by - August 9, 2016 7:36 am
U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Hot Springs, said Donald Trump would appoint conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices and support House Republicans’ “A Better Way” program, which is why he’s supporting him….
by - August 8, 2016 5:33 pm
Little Rock-based Welspun Tubular has received a $47 million contract to manufacture two-thirds of the pipe needed to construct the 440-mile Diamond Pipeline, a controversial multistate project that will ship…
by - August 8, 2016 4:36 pm
The Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation is joining with the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce in opposing two medical marijuana initiatives that are likely to be on the ballot this November….
by - August 8, 2016 4:28 pm
Randolph County residents may decide this November if the county will go wet or stay dry. It’s been several generations since beer, wine, and spirits have been sold in the…
by - August 7, 2016 4:34 pm
Editor’s note: Justin Allen is a partner with the Little Rock-based law firm of Wright Lindsey Jennings. He leads the firm’s governmental relations group. Opinions, commentary and other essays posted…
by - August 7, 2016 8:53 am
U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., says he’s unsure if Iran is owed more money from the U.S. government and the first-term GOP senator defended Donald Trump as a better potential…
by - August 6, 2016 7:06 am
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 in Northeast Arkansas on…
by - August 5, 2016 4:51 pm
A proposed constitutional amendment that would allow the Legislature to set limits on non-economic damages and would limit attorneys’ fees has collected enough signatures to qualify for the ballot. In…
by - August 5, 2016 3:32 pm
Trump, Obama, Iran and federal Graduate Medical Education (GME) funding were topics Friday (Aug. 5) as U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., toured the newly constructed Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine…
