by - August 20, 2013 4:01 am
The City Wire’s Michael Tilley joined me on this week’s edition of Talk Business Arkansas. We discussed Wal-Mart’s latest earnings report, which showed consumers pulling back in the present and…
by - August 20, 2013 3:59 am
From David Goins with our content partner, KARK Ch. 4: As some homeowners move back into the Northwoods Subdivision in Mayflower, a former federal regulator says pipelines will continue to…
by - August 19, 2013 4:04 pm
State Sen. Paul Bookout (D-Jonesboro), who was the subject of a major ethics penalty on Friday, has resigned from his job as an administrator with St. Bernard’s Healthcare in Jonesboro….
by - August 19, 2013 2:53 pm
Monday not only was the first day of school for 460,000 Arkansas students, but it also was the first day that grades 9-12 began classes under the Common Core State…
by - August 19, 2013 2:52 pm
With Arkansas pursuing expanded broadband in its public schools, an FCC commissioner says she wants her agency to be a catalyst for meeting the state’s goals and pushing for greater…
by - August 19, 2013 10:40 am
Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission CEO Alan McClain is leaving the state agency and will join the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI), an independent non-profit based in Cambridge, Mass. McClain says…
by - August 19, 2013 7:27 am
Tommy Moll, a businessman from Hot Springs announced Monday (Aug. 19) that he plans to be a Republican candidate for the Fourth Congressional District of Arkansas. House Majority Leader Rep….
by - August 18, 2013 9:01 am
Sen. John Boozman (R) insisted that repealing, not reforming, Obamacare was the only tenable position for improving health insurance in the U.S., while Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Mike Ross said Republicans have misrepresented his positions on the controversial law.
by - August 17, 2013 10:05 am
Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe (D) endorsed Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Mike Ross on Saturday (Aug. 17) at the State Capitol in Little Rock. The endorsement comes as little surprise as Beebe…
by - August 17, 2013 6:28 am
Forbes ranks the most valuable professional football franchises. Guess who’s No. 1? These stories and more in our weekend digest.
by - August 17, 2013 6:28 am
Republican Tom Cotton is running for U.S. Senate. That announcement is what drove hundreds of supporters to Dardanelle on August 6. That announcement is also what set the GOP dominoes…
by - August 16, 2013 11:54 am
State Sen. Paul Bookout (D-Jonesboro) was handed an $8,000 fine and a reprimand from the Arkansas Ethics Commission for his misuse of nearly $50,000 in campaign funds. Information disclosed after…
by - August 15, 2013 7:52 pm
The Arkansas Ethics Commission will meet for its regular monthly meeting Friday morning (Aug. 16) in Little Rock where it is expected to take up the complaint filed against Sen….
by - August 15, 2013 4:30 pm
The Mike Ross for Governor campaign says that Gov. Mike Beebe (D) and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Ross will “make an announcement on Saturday at the State Capitol in downtown…
by - August 15, 2013 2:28 pm
Since a Circuit Judge ruled earlier this week that Secretary of State Mark Martin’s hiring of private practice attorneys violated state law a few new wrinkles have developed in this…
by - August 15, 2013 1:57 pm
State Rep. Warwick Sabin (D-Little Rock) will leave his post as publisher of the Oxford American magazine and take the helm of the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub, an entrepreneurship non-profit…
by - August 14, 2013 5:21 pm
As reported earlier, Pulaski County Circuit Judge Tim Fox ruled on Monday that Secretary of State Mark Martin was in violation of Arkansas Statue 25-16-702 in his use of outside…
by - August 14, 2013 4:20 pm
Arkansans Against Big Government, a group formed to push for a repeal of the legislature’s recent private option health insurance plan, failed to get the 46,880 signatures needed to qualify…
by - August 14, 2013 10:31 am
State Rep. Charlie Collins (R-Fayetteville) waded into the Arkansas Lt. Governor’s race on Wednesday (Aug. 14). Collins, who chairs the House Revenue and Tax Committee, has been a proponent of…
by - August 14, 2013 9:59 am
Mark Pryor voted for Obamacare. Tom Cotton opposes Obamacare and wants to repeal it. Game over, right? Tom Cotton wins handily in a state where President Obama and Obamacare are…
