by - April 30, 2015 6:59 pm
A former state senator who pleaded guilty earlier this year to mail fraud in a campaign finance scandal will appear before a federal judge later this year for sentencing. According…
by - April 30, 2015 6:57 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed an executive order Thursday to create the Governor’s Working Group on Highway Funding, a panel he hopes can come up with options to pay for Arkansas road needs.
by - April 30, 2015 6:56 pm
All eight of Arkansas’ metropolitan areas had lower jobless rate in March compared to the previous month and a year ago, according to data compiled and released by U.S. Bureau…
by - April 30, 2015 1:11 pm
Fifty-three years after long-time Arkansas Education Commissioner Dr. Arch Ford’s vision for economic education was realized, Economics Arkansas honored the Ford Family legacy. During a luncheon meeting at the Marriott…
by - April 30, 2015 9:49 am
An executive with one of the top 3D printing companies in the U.S. gave a long list of exciting products and applications on Thursday that are now entering the marketplace…
by - April 30, 2015 6:34 am
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, Talk Business & Politics provides “Startup Talk,” a round-up of startup, technology and entrepreneurial news in our email newsletter, which you can sign up to receive daily for free…
by - April 30, 2015 6:19 am
Murphy Oil Corp. fell into the red during the first quarter as declining crude oil and natural gas prices cut a huge swath across the oil giant’s entire operations. For…
by - April 30, 2015 12:36 am
A project that was first announced in December 2013 is finally shovel-ready. Food distributor Ben E. Keith Company will break ground Thursday at 11 a.m. on its new North Little…
by - April 29, 2015 6:31 pm
Robert Tucker, keynote speaker at the Arkansas Innovation Manufacturing Summit, delivered his part-pep talk, part-lecture describing stories of corporate culture change and what happens to companies that don’t adapt.
by - April 29, 2015 6:13 pm
A survey answered by 975 Arkansas teachers in grades 3-12 found that 61% would keep the Common Core State Standards while 39% would eliminate them. However, 87% said they “don’t…
by - April 29, 2015 5:59 pm
The U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has delayed a decision on the constitutionality of Arkansas’ ban on same-sex marriage pending the outcome of a case before the U.S. Supreme…
by - April 29, 2015 3:16 pm
Arkansas Community Corrections inmates are transitioning into society at Arkansas Baptist College in a facility named for former Alltel President Scott Ford. The Scott Ford Center for Entrepreneurship & Community…
by - April 29, 2015 2:51 pm
A Baldor marketing official told a roomful of manufacturing executives and leaders that although the use of robots is growing rapidly as part of the industrial giant’s operations, not one…
by - April 29, 2015 2:30 pm
Put another acquisition check mark on paper for Simmons First National Corp., albeit a much smaller one that normal. Pine Bluff-based Simmons First said it has entered into “a definitive…
by - April 29, 2015 11:03 am
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson kicked off the first Arkansas Manufacturing Innovation Summit on Wednesday by saying that strengthening the nation’s manufacturing was a “national security” issue, and strongly advocating that…
by - April 29, 2015 6:14 am
Sourcing more U.S. made products, empowering women, and putting veterans back to work are just a few of programs pushed from Bentonville. Here’s an update.
by - April 29, 2015 5:48 am
After pulling back on expansion within China in recent years, Wal-Mart Stores CEO Doug McMillon announced Wednesday (April 29) plans to open 115 new stores by 2017. This expansion will…
by - April 29, 2015 5:43 am
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by - April 28, 2015 8:58 pm
The four members of Arkansas’ delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives took to the House floor for more than eight minutes Tuesday evening to honor the memory of former…
by - April 28, 2015 6:03 pm
The latest podcast edition of Talk Business & Politics is available. On this week’s agenda: Robots, robots, robots Entergy Arkansas’ rate increase request The Federal Reserve Bank and its latest…
