by - June 17, 2015 8:33 am
Devon Ramsey, 19, has a great job. He’s just barely one year out of high school, making well over $75,000 a year, has a new truck, no student loan debt and is investigating retirement plans. But he’s frustrated by an education system he says needs more emphasis on skilled trades.
by - June 17, 2015 5:28 am
A proposal for the city of Jonesboro to adopt a property maintenance code heads back to the drawing board with people on both sides of the debate wanting something different…
by - June 17, 2015 5:25 am
Editor’s note: Each Wednesday, Talk Business & Politics provides “Health Beat,” a round-up of health-related topics in our email newsletter, which you can sign up to receive daily for free here. SUPREME COURT…
by - June 17, 2015 4:29 am
Beth Hunt with our content partner, KATV Ch. 7 News, reports: Rep. Justin Harris, R-West Fork, will not seek re-election for another term in the Arkansas legislature. You may remember…
by - June 16, 2015 3:36 pm
Arkansas may score another superproject coup if a full-scale gas-to-liquids (GTL) processing refining facility developed by two former top Clinton administration officials – Gen. Wesley Clark and Rodney Slater –…
by - June 16, 2015 1:42 pm
Executives with Clean Line Energy Partners LLC and the Paris-based Seves Group recently announced a deal to locate a glass insulator manufacturing plant in West Memphis that would support a…
by - June 16, 2015 1:08 pm
Best Association Management, an association management company located in Little Rock has been awarded the contract to manage the Arkansas Society of Association Executives (ASAE). The ASAE board began a…
by - June 16, 2015 12:15 am
The Arkansas Lottery Scholarship program may be struggling to make ends meet, but in the the past five years the 43 Arkansans who were million dollar winners through the program should have been able to tie up all loose financial ends.
by - June 16, 2015 12:01 am
Editor’s note: Each Tuesday, Talk Business & Politics provides “Campus Talk,” a recap and deep-dive into education topics in our email newsletter, which you can sign up to receive daily for free here….
by - June 15, 2015 6:46 pm
On this week’s program: Sen. Tom Cotton. The state’s junior senator weighs in on the growing Presidential field sprouting from the U.S. Senate, and he’ll share his thoughts on the…
by - June 15, 2015 4:51 pm
Environment & Energy Publishing reports that former Arkansas Public Service Commission chairwoman Colette Honorable wants to see her current employer, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), play a supportive role…
by - June 15, 2015 4:06 pm
The rules of the political game for 2016 in Arkansas are now set. Officials with the Arkansas Secretary of State’s office have released the 2016 election calendar for the state,…
by - June 15, 2015 2:56 pm
Arkansas’ rig count has fallen to its lowest level in more than a decade as drillers and oilfield equipment companies have cut back substantially on upstream oil and gas capital…
by - June 15, 2015 8:38 am
Pat O’Brien, a small business owner in Arkansas, recently attended a State Chamber of Commerce-organized trip to Cuba. He offers the following observations on a week-long journey.
by - June 15, 2015 8:02 am
Sometimes individual members of a group can embarrass the larger group with which they associate. It’s unfortunate, but it always happens. It can cause malicious feelings towards the broader group,…
by - June 15, 2015 6:02 am
Friday marked a major milestone in the high-speed Internet world as new FCC rules went into effect to prevent broadband companies from selling portions of their network at a premium…
by - June 15, 2015 6:01 am
Editor’s note: Each Monday, Talk Business & Politics provides “Money Talk,” a wrap-up of banking and financial news in our email newsletter, which you can sign up to receive daily for free here….
by - June 14, 2015 8:16 am
Editor’s note: Each Sunday, Talk Business & Politics provides “Made In America,” a wrap-up of manufacturing news in our email newsletter, which you can sign up to receive daily for free here. BEIGE…
by - June 14, 2015 8:06 am
The world is shrinking and productivity is improving thanks to technological advances, and business leaders in the field say Americans – and Arkansans – will likely be twice as “connected” to their devices in the next five years.
by - June 13, 2015 3:30 pm
The schedule in the nation’s capital this week was hectic as lawmakers dealt with national security, defense, trade and government waste among other issues. The following is a recap of…
