by - September 28, 2015 12:02 am
The city of Blytheville has been named as one of 10 communities in the United States to participate in a federal program to help combat rural child poverty, the White…
by - September 27, 2015 8:15 am
Talk Business & Politics contributor Jessica DeLoach Sabin and business editor Wes Brown joined host Roby Brock for a roundtable segment on this week’s TV show. The topic of conversation…
by - September 27, 2015 8:02 am
Fifty-eight years ago this week, nine courageous black teens entered Central High School in Little Rock for the first time despite a throng of white protestors and a Governor resisting…
by - September 27, 2015 7:22 am
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by - September 27, 2015 7:18 am
Arkansas’ federal lawmakers faced the resignation of House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, received a visit from Pope Francis and criticized a federal agency’s response to a disaster in the Animas…
by - September 26, 2015 7:28 am
TV PREVIEW: CENTRAL HIGH CRISIS & BEYOND On this week’s TV edition of Talk Business & Politics: Nearly 60 years ago this week, the crisis at Central High came to…
by - September 25, 2015 3:44 pm
The House Democratic Caucus Friday elected Rep. Michael John Gray of Augusta as House minority leader, the party announced. Also, Rep. David Whitaker of Fayetteville was elected House minority whip,…
by - September 25, 2015 12:34 pm
The largest structured steel facility in the western hemisphere will be getting a little larger as Nucor announced Friday a major investment project at its Blytheville mill. Charlotte, N.C.-based Nucor…
by - September 25, 2015 11:40 am
The state PSC gave the okay for Entergy Arkansas to move forward with a solar energy generating facility in Arkansas County that could power 13,000 homes.
by - September 25, 2015 9:37 am
The numbers were one-tenth of one percent off, but the result was the same. Both Craighead County and the city of Jonesboro saw their sales tax numbers go up in…
by - September 25, 2015 8:05 am
U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, who faced scrutiny from conservatives over policy issues, announced his resignation Friday during a Republican conference meeting. A flurry of reports hit the newswire…
by - September 25, 2015 7:02 am
Members of the Governor’s Working Group on Highway Funding are considering competing draft packages to raise funding for highways, two of which would increase taxes and one that would be…
by - September 25, 2015 12:16 am
Jacob Kauffman with our content partner, KUAR FM 89.1 News, reports: National attention over Confederate imagery has subsided in recent weeks but a victory for flag advocates in Arkansas emerged…
by - September 24, 2015 5:10 pm
In an historic move to more effectively eliminate hunger in Arkansas, the Arkansas Foodbank and the Arkansas Rice Depot announced Thursday, after approval from both organizations’ boards of directors, plans…
by - September 24, 2015 4:18 pm
We live in a fast-paced, get-it-done business environment. That can lead to skipped lunches, late nights and working on weekends, so we asked six business leaders to tell us how…
by - September 24, 2015 4:02 pm
The state should not develop its own costly individual insurance exchange and instead should probably continue using the one operated by the federal government, Gov. Asa Hutchinson told members of…
by - September 24, 2015 3:02 pm
Legislation to recognize the civic contributions of Judge Jacob Trieber by renaming the Helena-West Helena Federal building in his honor heads to the president’s desk for final approval after the…
by - September 24, 2015 2:57 pm
Sens. John Boozman and Tom Cotton, R-Ark., along with Congressmen Rick Crawford, R-Jonesboro, and Steve Womack, R-Rogers, on Thursday announced that the University of Arkansas and Arkansas State University will…
by - September 24, 2015 11:05 am
A Northeast Arkansas county judge on Thursday announced he was switching political parties, with Republican state party officials optimistic of more numbers. In a statement, state GOP officials announced that…
by - September 24, 2015 10:25 am
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