by - November 27, 2016 9:49 am
Three business icons are optimistic that a President Donald Trump will govern more pragmatically than candidate Trump campaigned. Thomas F. “Mack” McLarty, Franklin McLarty and Robert L. “Bob” Johnson were…
by - November 27, 2016 12:20 am
Editor’s note: Each Sunday, Talk Business & Politics provides “Made In America,” a round-up of state and global manufacturing news. –––––––––––––– MICHIGAN GOVERNOR SIGNS MOU TO CREATE AUTO MANUFACTURING HUB…
by - November 26, 2016 8:29 am
TV PREVIEW On this week’s TV edition of Talk Business & Politics, which airs Sundays at 9:30 a.m. on KATV Channel 7 in Central Arkansas and in Northeast Arkansas on…
by - November 23, 2016 1:40 pm
Johnelle Hunt of Rogers is among the 2017 Governor’s Arts Awards recipients for her contributions to the arts in Arkansas. The initiative is led by Little Rock-based nonprofit Arkansas Arts…
by - November 23, 2016 12:43 pm
A Northwest Arkansas cancer treatment provider has started using a high-precision machine to treat patients. On Oct. 31, Highlands Oncology Group started treating patients with a TrueBeam linear accelerator, manufactured…
by - November 23, 2016 10:44 am
Arkansas bank executives agreed with former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., about this: the bank regulation bill that bears his name should have been more lenient on smaller banks. In a…
by - November 23, 2016 10:20 am
Turkey farming is anything but easy. But that didn’t stop Jeff and Gloria Lindsey of Elkins from giving it a try. The couple signed on as turkey growers for Cargill…
by - November 23, 2016 9:47 am
Business groups across the U.S. cheered a decision by a U.S. District Court in Texas postponing the Obama administration’s new overtime rules that determine how much employees working more than…
by - November 22, 2016 8:39 pm
After eight years as director and almost 20 years with the airport, Fort Smith Regional Airport Director John Parker is stepping down. Parker announced his retirement effective March 31, 2017,…
by - November 22, 2016 7:03 pm
Truck tonnage declined 0.9% in October compared to the same month last year, but a trucking economist sees signs of a gradual increase in truck freight, according to a news…
by - November 22, 2016 4:46 pm
Biomedical engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have found a cause of fluid swelling in the brain, or cellular edema, happening during a concussion, and a treatment for it,…
by - November 22, 2016 4:13 pm
A second Democratic lawmaker has switched to the Republican Party since the Nov. 8 election, giving the GOP a 75% supermajority in the House of Representatives. Rep. David Hillman, R-Almyra,…
by - November 22, 2016 4:12 pm
The new superintendent of Fort Smith Public Schools (FSPS) is not yet known — that will be for a marathon day of interviews on Nov. 28 to assist in determining…
by - November 22, 2016 4:09 pm
House Education Committee members voted Tuesday to approve an adequacy report, already approved by their Senate counterparts, more than three weeks after its deadline. The adequacy report, which is required…
by - November 22, 2016 2:41 pm
The Women and Infants Center at Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville opened Nov. 14. The $60 million project added a five-story, 132,800-square-foot patient tower to the existing hospital campus,…
by - November 22, 2016 2:38 pm
The number of distressed home sales in Northwest Arkansas — including bank-owned (REO) sales, sales of homes actively in foreclosure and short sales — continues to drop. According to a…
by - November 22, 2016 2:36 pm
Tyson Foods is preparing for a management shift and it’s only the second time in the company’s long history where the incoming CEO is not a veteran employee of the…
by - November 22, 2016 2:31 pm
Mercy Hospital Fort Smith and Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas in Rogers are two of the five hospital in Arkansas to receive the top “A” rating from the national nonprofit Leapfrog…
by - November 22, 2016 2:10 pm
Mark Gaston Pearce, chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, spoke recently in Fayetteville about how the federal agency has adapted to change in its 81-year history of enforcing the…
by - November 22, 2016 1:48 pm
Members of Arkansas’ Congressional delegation may reintroduce some version of legislation introduced earlier this year to halt one of the nation’s largest renewable energy infrastructure projects that will cross the…
