by - June 15, 2016 6:39 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced Wednesday that a $400,000 Department of Education grant would enable all Arkansas middle schools to participate in a project designed to increase student interest in computer-…
by - June 15, 2016 4:13 pm
Jonesboro Mayor Harold Perrin said this week that road construction projects in and around the city have created a long and winding road, going from start to finish. Perrin spoke…
by - June 15, 2016 3:23 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson reiterated his support of Donald Trump the day after meeting with his party’s presumptive presidential nominee in Trump Tower. “I’ve always said that I will support the…
by - June 14, 2016 9:12 pm
Editor’s note: Jessica DeLoach Sabin is a frequent contributor to Talk Business & Politics. Opinions, commentary and other essays posted in this space are wholly the view of the author(s). They…
by - June 14, 2016 7:05 pm
A group hoping to cap noneconomic damages for health care providers and limit attorneys’ contingency fees has raised more than $313,000, including $250,000 from the Arkansas Health Care Association, which…
by - June 14, 2016 4:12 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson characterized his meeting with presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump today at Trump Tower in New York as “a substantive discussion.” In a statement released from his…
by - June 13, 2016 5:22 pm
Craighead County Treasurer Terry McNatt said Monday (June 13) that the county’s economic numbers are doing good. The county is up more than $500,000 to $8.1 million in sales tax…
by - June 13, 2016 11:20 am
U.S. Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., and U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Jonesboro, responded to the deadly nightclub shooting in Orlando by saying members of Congress have been warned that something like…
by - June 12, 2016 9:13 am
U.S. Rep. Steve Womack, R-Rogers, supports Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s call to remove sales tax exemptions on Internet sales and to use the proceeds for income tax relief in Arkansas. Appearing…
by - June 12, 2016 9:09 am
Arkansas Department of Human Services director Cindy Gillespie is moving quickly to implement reforms in the state’s largest agency, and she anticipates the foundation for many policy changes to be…
by - June 10, 2016 6:52 pm
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 - June 10, 2016 4:42 pm
An electric cooperative in Northwest Arkansas is preparing to lay what it calls a 7,000-mile, “future-proof” fiber optics line, but the president and chairman of Aristotle says no technology is future…
by - June 10, 2016 4:33 pm
The office of Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced on Friday (June 10) the following appointments to state boards and commission. Dr. Deborah Mack, Bentonville, to the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy….
by - June 10, 2016 4:33 pm
The office of Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced on Friday (June 10) the following appointments to state boards and commission. Dr. Deborah Mack, Bentonville, to the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy….
by - June 9, 2016 9:33 pm
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is about to embark on a critical time for revenue, Dr. Dan Rahn, the school’s chancellor, told members of a newly formed…
by - June 9, 2016 12:53 pm
Despite concerns over the Zika virus in Brazil, the 2016 Summer Olympics must go on, said the state’s Department of Human Services director, who helped organize the 2002 Salt Lake…
by - June 9, 2016 7:25 am
Former President Bill Clinton will speak at the Democratic Party of Arkansas’ 35th Annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner July 15 at Verizon Arena in North Little Rock. The DPA made the announcement…
by - June 9, 2016 6:54 am
Michael Poore has packed up his office in Bentonville where he served as superintendent since 2011. He will soon transition into the role of superintendent for the academically challenged Little…
by - June 8, 2016 5:05 pm
The Department of Human Services is ending contracts at the end of this fiscal year that would have cost more than $174 million over the next seven years, though the…
by - June 8, 2016 3:39 pm
The state Department of Career Education announced Wednesday that an Arkansas student has been recognized for the first time as a U.S. Presidential Scholar, one of the nation’s highest honors…
