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Traveler Gets Interview with Ex-president

The University of Arkansas? student newspaper scooped the local media by landing a brief interview with former President Bill Clinton during his visit to campus on Oct. 21.

D-G News Section Shines on UA Game Weekends (Outtakes Opinion)

Staffers of the D-G?s news and business sections did a particularly good job of strutting their stuff when the University of Kentucky Wildcats came to town.

Dateline Policy: One Last Comment (Outtakes Opinion)

Good work such as Dan Zehr?s economic series follow-up published on Oct. 21 is frequently undercut by the D-G news department?s unusual dateline policy.

Superior Automotive Group Tops Auto Dealers List

Superior Automotive Group sits at No. 1 on the list of the region’s automotive dealers list.

Securities Commissioner Reaffirms Order Against Golf

Securities commissioner reaffirms order that Springdale company stop selling stock in Arkansas.

Mitchell Named Top Exec at Awards Banquet

The Northwest Arkansas Business Journal announces the winners of its annual Business of the Year awards.

Toyota Fever (Jeff Hankins Publisher’s Note)

Can and should Arkansas compete to land a major auto manufacturing plant? Absolutely.

Execs Whistle Dixie

Dixie Management & Investment Co. has expanded into seven different companies and, in the process, has picked up some of Northwest Arkansas? top talent in those respective areas.

Morning News Launches Section for Women

The tabloid-sized supplement, titled ?Splurge for Her,? will be published every other month

State Gets Good School News (Editorial)

The recession that has cut incomes and swelled poverty rolls nationwide has hit Arkansas harder than most states because so many Arkansans already have low incomes.

Dixie Development Helps Traffic Woes

In an ironic twist, more development planned for the bustling North Hills area in Fayetteville is expected to actually help ease traffic problems.

McDonald?s Slashes Prices, Buys Light Bulbs

One notable exception to the theory that fast-food eateries thrive in a recession is McDonald?s Corp., the world?s largest fast-food chain.

Fast food Chains Steady as Fine Dining Takes Dip

As the United States slipped into a recession during the first half of 2001, Americans cut back on fine dining, but most fast-food restaurants continued to do well primarily because of their low prices.

Marketing Plan Emphasizes Internet

Minute Drain in Rogers plans to spend $235,000 between mid-October and Dec. 31 to market its boat engine quick-drain product.

Industry Feels Rough Waters

Rising watercraft costs and the sinking economy have pressured the boating industry.

Minute Drain Makes Waves

Randy Myers turned his love for boating into a new motor accessory business that he expects to gross $1 million by year?s end.

Beta-Rubicon, UA Explore Partnership

Beta-Rubicon Inc. has been rubbing elbows with so many titans of technology lately that the company?s management may be in the market for an arm sling.

AVRA Beset with Courtiers

AVRA Financial Group Inc., another company that recently secured Beta-Rubicon to do its technology assessment work, has suddenly found itself beset with courtiers.

Naomi Judd to Speak at Springdale Luncheon

Naomi Judd, who teamed with daughter Wynonna to produce six Grammy Awards and several platinum albums and No. 1 songs, will be the keynote speaker at the Women?s Heart Disease & Stroke Celebrity Luncheon next spring in Springdale.

UA’s Doyle Williams to Receive CPA Award

We hear that Doyle Z. Williams, dean of the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, is jetting off to Hawaii to receive a gold medal from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Oklahoma court ruling threatens poultry industry in Arkansas

GDP up 4.3% in the third quarter, consumer confidence declines

St. Bernards to expand Maternal Life360 HOME program into Greene County

Then and Now: Cooperative business model a good fit for Mitchell Johnson