by - April 18, 2016 6:04 am
Editor’s note: Each Monday, Talk Business & Politics provides “Money Talk,” a wrap-up of banking and financial news. –––––––––––––––– BEIGE BOOK: REGIONAL ECONOMY IMPROVING, HIGHLIGHTED BY ACCELERATED BANKING ACTIVITY Economic…
by - April 18, 2016 5:52 am
Editor’s note: This story is updated with additions and changes throughout. –––––––––––––– Lowell-based J.B. Hunt Transport Services posted first quarter net income of $100.098 million, up 8.8% compared to the…
by - April 17, 2016 12:40 pm
Editor’s note: Dustin McDaniel is a legal analyst for Talk Business & Politics. He is a partner at McDaniel Richardson and Calhoun in Little Rock and served as Democratic Attorney General…
by - April 17, 2016 9:13 am
guest commentary by Dr. Williams Yamkam Editor’s note: Dr. Williams Yamkam is an assistant professor of Political Science at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith. Opinions, commentary and other…
by - April 17, 2016 8:43 am
The circuitous route to fund Arkansas Works being pushed by Gov. Asa Hutchinson and allies is taking the legislature into unchartered territory, many of those lawmakers agree. The governor is…
by - April 17, 2016 6:31 am
Cubans are a proud people entering a period of major social change, U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Jonesboro, said Monday after returning from his first trip there last week. (UPDATE: See…
by - April 17, 2016 6:01 am
Editor’s note: Each Sunday, Talk Business & Politics provides “Made In America,” a round-up of state and global manufacturing news. –––––––––––––– STEEL EXECUTIVES GO TO WASHINGTON, ASKS CONGRESS FOR ANTI-DUMPING…
by - April 16, 2016 7:16 am
SUNDAY 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 now in Northeast…
by - April 15, 2016 8:36 pm
Congress returned to the nation’s capital this week after a two week district work period, with several items on the agenda. A trip by an Arkansas lawmaker to Cuba as…
by - April 15, 2016 4:14 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson is confident he will gain enough support to use a line-item veto strategy to fund his Arkansas Works program. Hutchinson spoke to reporters in his office on…
by - April 15, 2016 10:59 am
Mark Rushing has been named assistant vice chancellor of university relations at the University of Arkansas effective April 1, after leading the office as acting director since the beginning of…
by - April 15, 2016 10:59 am
Mark Rushing has been named assistant vice chancellor of university relations at the University of Arkansas effective April 1, after leading the office as acting director since the beginning of…
by - April 15, 2016 9:12 am
Arkansas’ jobless rate fell to its lowest level in the state’s history in March, declining two-tenths of a percentage point from last’s month’s previous hallmark while adding more than 7,000…
by - April 15, 2016 5:09 am
Editor’s note: Each Friday, Talk Business & Politics provides “Energy In-depth,” a round-up of energy and regulatory news. ––––––––––––––––– WIND POWER JOBS HIT RECORD, UP 20% IN 2016 American wind power supported…
by - April 14, 2016 6:00 pm
An upcoming May 1 deadline to find a site location for a $1.3 billion superproject that China’s largest privately-held timber company hopes to build in south Arkansas is expected to…
by - April 14, 2016 5:46 pm
The massive new ArcBest corporate headquarters structure taking form on a Chaffee Crossing ridge overlooking much of southeast Fort Smith is on schedule for a spring 2017 completion, said ArcBest…
by - April 14, 2016 4:37 pm
Editor’s note: The Supply Side section of Talk Business & Politics focuses on the companies, organizations, issues and individuals engaged in providing products and services to retailers. The Supply Side…
by - April 14, 2016 3:57 pm
Editor’s note: Jessica DeLoach Sabin is a frequent contributor to Talk Business & Politics. Opinions, commentary and other essays posted in this space are wholly the view of the author(s). They…
by - April 14, 2016 2:02 pm
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, Talk Business & Politics provides “Startup Talk,” a round-up of startup, technology and entrepreneurial news. ––––––––––––––– DENSO INVESTS IN TECH STARTUP THAT PROVIDES LASER TECHNOLOGY FOR SELF-DRIVING CARS…
by - April 14, 2016 1:53 pm
The federally-funded Arkansas PROMISE project has enrolled 2,000 teens with disabilities, more than two weeks ahead of the deadline and less than eight months after enrollment began in September 2014….
