by - March 17, 2015 12:23 am
While the recent focus has been on the brewing steel factory war in Northeast Arkansas, Nucor Steel has been part of the fabric of the region for nearly three decades….
by - March 16, 2015 7:10 pm
The United States faces many of the same issues that were present in the days before World War II, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said Monday night. Cotton gave his first…
by - March 16, 2015 6:34 pm
A House legislator facing questions in an adoption scandal resigned his committee leadership post Monday afternoon, while several education bills including two on workforce training sailed through the state Senate….
by - March 16, 2015 3:28 pm
Former Gov. Mike Beebe’s chief of staff has a new job. Morril Harriman has joined the law firm of Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, P.L.L.C. in the firm’s Little…
by - March 16, 2015 12:19 pm
Central Arkansas will play host next month to a two-day, first-of-its-kind Arkansas Manufacturing Innovation Summit where companies across the state will be able to spotlight cutting edge manufacturing innovations and…
by - March 16, 2015 8:01 am
United States Senator Tom Cotton last week wrote a letter to the Iranian Ayatollah, stating that the President’s on-going nuclear negotiations with the terrorist state are ill conceived and non-binding….
by - March 15, 2015 8:28 am
This week’s Talk Business & Politics roundtable featured Political Animals Club President Rex Nelson, KATV’s lead capitol reporter Janelle Lilley and TB&P columnist and contributor Michael Cook. The discussion included…
by - March 15, 2015 8:24 am
Lobby Up’s Bradley Phillips reports on this week’s most viewed pieces of legislation. Phillips also brings up a new House rule that calls on shell bills to be fleshed out…
by - March 15, 2015 8:05 am
After a high-profile week centered around a controversial letter to Iranian leaders authored by Sen. Tom Cotton, Arkansas’ junior senator said he’s far from done with his efforts interjecting himself in the U.S.-Iran discussion.
by - March 15, 2015 12:34 am
State lawmakers head back to Little Rock to deal with several compelling issues, including workforce training, criminal justice reform, and health care. The tenth week of the session starts Monday…
by - March 15, 2015 12:32 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. SUPERIOR…
by - March 14, 2015 8:29 pm
Todd Jones with ARScene.net has a solid write-up of today’s Pi Day events at the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub in downtown North Little Rock’s Argenta district. A number of students…
by - March 14, 2015 4:08 pm
A week’s discussion of foreign policy, especially growing issues with Iran, drew attention from around the world and in the Natural State, as foreign policy experts and politicos weighed in on Arkansas’ junior senator, Tom Cotton.
by - March 14, 2015 7:37 am
A House committee narrowed down its picks for constitutional amendments, while the House approved an education bill that supporters say will narrow the gap between public and charter schools. The…
by - March 14, 2015 7:02 am
TV PREVIEW: THE TOM COTTON LETTER On this week’s edition of Talk Business & Politics, which airs Sundays at 9 a.m. on KATV Ch. 7, tune in for the following:…
by - March 13, 2015 9:25 pm
Former Arkansas Agriculture Secretary and former Riceland Foods CEO Richard Bell passed away on Friday, Talk Business & Politics has confirmed. Bell, a 2003 inductee in the state’s Business Hall of Fame,…
by - March 13, 2015 8:57 pm
Arkansas’ publicly traded concerns held their own this week as many U.S. stocks got caught in the broader market’s downdraft with the Dow Jones and S&P 500 falling for the…
by - March 13, 2015 3:20 pm
On Friday, Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced the members of the Governor’s Council on Common Core Review to be chaired by Lt. Governor Tim Griffin. Hutchinson said earlier this week that…
by - March 13, 2015 3:16 pm
On Friday, Gov. Asa Hutchinson submitted the name of a Craighead County man to serve as the state’s Secretary of Agriculture. Wes Ward of Lake City was selected for the…
by - March 13, 2015 12:45 pm
Fresh off his departure from Fox News and a new foray into Presidential politics, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee may be wading into the radio ownership business. Huckabee will be…
