by - March 9, 2015 4:17 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson has nominated Aaron Burkes as the new president of the Arkansas Development Finance Authority. ADFA is a state agency that administers funding through tax exempt bonds and…
by - March 9, 2015 4:04 pm
Karen Minkel will succeed Rob Brothers as the Home Region director for the Walton Family Foundation upon his approaching retirement in April. Minkel joined the foundation in 2012 and has…
by - March 9, 2015 2:24 pm
The 16-member Arkansas Health Care Reform Legislative Task Force, charged with recommending changes to the private option and traditional Medicaid, is split nearly evenly between legislators who voted for and…
by - March 9, 2015 11:24 am
A chicken processing plant in Independence County will close its doors this summer, with jobs lost in the process – maybe. Talk Business & Politics content partner, KAIT Ch. 8,…
by - March 9, 2015 8:24 am
How do you measure the success of a legislative session? Is it what gets done, or how long it takes to do it? That’s the question that starts getting asked…
by - March 9, 2015 8:10 am
Facebook doesn’t “like” two bills being considered by state legislators – one that would allow certain employers to require access to their employees’ social media accounts, and one that would give personal representatives access to a deceased person’s digital records.
by - March 9, 2015 7:57 am
Editor’s note: This article appears in the latest magazine edition of Talk Business & Politics, which you can access online here. Although it has been nearly seven years since the end of…
by - March 9, 2015 7:46 am
Editor’s note: Each Monday, Talk Business & Politics provides “Money Talk,” a wrap-up of banking and financial news in our email newsletter, which you can sign up to receive daily for free here….
by - March 8, 2015 2:43 pm
Whether you want city life, country life, something in-between, or a little bit of both, Arkansas’ tourism destinations offer you choices. As Richard Davies mentioned in his cover story interview,…
by - March 8, 2015 2:39 pm
Three key measurements of Arkansas’ leisure and hospitality sector ended 2014 in positive territory, with 16 of the 18 Arkansas cities reviewed showing year-over-year hospitality tax gains, according to the inaugural report of the Arkansas Tourism Ticker.
by - March 8, 2015 9:07 am
Richard Davies is set to retire later this year after 42 years of helping to promote – and grow – the tourism industry in Arkansas. He describes his journey in his own words.
by - March 8, 2015 8:27 am
State Sen. Jason Rapert, R-Conway, and Arkansas Democrat-Gazette columnist John Brummett discussed a variety of constitutional and religious issues in a 30-minute taped conversation for this week’s TV edition of…
by - March 8, 2015 8:02 am
Editor’s note: Video from this week’s TV edition of Talk Business & Politics appears at the bottom of this post. KATV’s Janelle Lilley and Elicia Dover reported on the latest…
by - March 8, 2015 6:59 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. APPLE…
by - March 8, 2015 3:05 am
Editor’s note: Michael Wilkey is Talk Business & Politics’ Northeast Arkansas correspondent. He can be reached by email at [email protected]. Two men, with over 80 years of journalistic experience, died…
by - March 7, 2015 8:13 pm
The legislature heads back to the capitol Monday for a ninth week of this year’s session as lawmakers prepare to make key decisions. Members of the House and Senate State…
by - March 7, 2015 10:45 am
I’m so proud. My younger brother, Darrell Scott, and his college roommate, Tareq Alani, just won their alma mater’s Venture Fund Competition. They pitched to a panel of venture capitalists…
by - March 7, 2015 10:01 am
Foreign policy and the economy were two of the major issues that members of the Arkansas congressional delegation dealt with this week in Congress. The following is a breakdown of…
by - March 7, 2015 7:50 am
For our weekend business and political readers: TV PREVIEW On this week’s edition of Talk Business & Politics, which airs Sundays at 9 a.m. on KATV Ch. 7, tune in…
by - March 6, 2015 5:54 pm
House members overwhelmingly approved a bill to end the state’s participation in a national Common Core test on Friday. The House voted 86-1 to approve House Bill 1241. Rep. Mark…
