by - May 24, 2012 9:35 pm
BLOOMBERG — Companies placed fewer orders for computers, machinery and other capital equipment in April for a second month, indicating manufacturing in the U.S. is cooling. Bookings for non-military goods…
by - May 24, 2012 8:10 pm
Bentonville-based America's Car-Mart continues to outperform Wall Street expectations posting double-digit net income growth in its fourth quarter and fiscal 2012, which ended April 30. The buy here, pay here…
by - May 24, 2012 6:45 pm
This week’s adventure takes us back to my new found love, the pupusa. This time around we eat at a place that has been every kind of eatery imaginable, but…
by - May 24, 2012 6:00 pm
Nearly three years after Stephens Media and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Inc. merged operations in Northwest Arkansas, the union has yet to achieve the expected financial security. The joint venture, Northwest…
by - May 24, 2012 5:31 pm
Commissioners of the Central Business Improvement District (CBID) know they’re in for a fight for the affections of soccer and volleyball groups in the Fort Smith region, but it’s a…
by - May 24, 2012 4:58 pm
The announcement that tech giant Hewlett-Packard will lay off 27,000 workers worldwide sent reverberations through Arkansas economic circles, particularly in Conway where the company opened a 1,000 employee, $28 million…
by - May 24, 2012 4:40 pm
Rheem Manufacturing laid off 16 salaried jobs at its Fort Smith plant and a distribution center in Lewisville, Texas, on Thursday (May 24), but a company official says the move…
by - May 24, 2012 9:21 am
Terry Rice and Uvalde Lindsey may soon be on opposite ends of a more divisive political arena come January, but both say they don’t want Little Rock politics to morph…
by - May 23, 2012 11:00 pm
BLOOMBERG — When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the justices said next to nothing about racial equality, the ideal that drove the landmark law’s enactment….
by - May 23, 2012 10:21 pm
FAYETTEVILLE — Cary Arsaga, founder of a half-dozen Arsaga’s coffee shops and once a mayoral candidate in this town, has mortgaged his house and businesses in pursuit of a cafe…
by - May 23, 2012 6:55 pm
FAYETTEVILLE — The U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy, Daniel Poneman, presented a local company with a $150,000 grant for innovative energy research on Wednesday, May 23, as he visited the…
by - May 23, 2012 5:11 pm
In the coming decade, emerging technologies will thoroughly transform higher education. Although distance learning and computer-assisted education have been around since the 1960s, financial pressures are forcing institutions to develop…
by - May 23, 2012 5:00 pm
Beef U.S. beef packer margins averaged about $10 per head last week, according to Hedgers Edge. A year ago packers were just breaking even. Bob Wilson at Hedgers Edge said…
by - May 23, 2012 4:55 pm
Political control of Arkansas’ House and Senate will be a point of numerous media stories between now and November, but Republicans are clearly in the majority in the Northwest Arkansas…
by - May 23, 2012 3:19 pm
T. Baridi Nkokheli, director of sanitation for the City of Fort Smith, has depicted U.S. Deputy Marshal Bass Reeves on behalf of the city since 2007. As the unveiling of…
by - May 23, 2012 3:17 pm
After six consecutive months of year-over-year gains, tax collections for Fort Smith were down less than 1% in the April report. However, the year-to-date collections are more than 5% above…
by - May 23, 2012 1:15 pm
BLOOMBERG — The California State Teachers’ Retirement System will vote its 5.3 million Wal-Mart Stores Inc. shares against the entire board’s re-election amid a probe into alleged bribery in Mexican…
by - May 23, 2012 11:33 am
The City of Van Buren Wall Restoration Project will re-dedicate the newly restored Medals of Valor Wall Panel on Saturday, May 26th, 2012, 11:30 A.M. til 12:00 noon to honor…
by - May 22, 2012 11:58 pm
Rep. Denny Altes, a Republican legislator from Fort Smith who has never lost a legislative election, kept his winning streak clean for his last legislative race. Altes captured 57% of…
by - May 22, 2012 9:09 pm
The Fort Smith Advertising and Promotion Commission (A&P) voted unanimously to reinstate former member Ronnie Townsend on Tuesday (May 22), following Townsend’s resignation in June 2011. Townsend tendered a letter…
