by - March 25, 2016 9:29 am
Arkansas’ jobless rate fell two-tenths of a percentage point in February to an all-time low of 4.2%, well below the nation’s unemployment rate of 4.9% and well ahead of year-ago…
by - March 25, 2016 8:26 am
The U.S. economy is still performing well short of expectations as the nation’s Gross Domestic Product activity only grew at a weak 1.4% in the fourth quarter of 2015, according…
by - March 24, 2016 8:17 pm
Two competing draft bills circulating among legislators would provide financial rewards for cost-efficient care and penalties for poor performance, but they would do it in different ways. One would create…
by - March 24, 2016 6:18 pm
Alexis Rogers with content partner, KATV Ch. 7 reports: Former Circuit Court Judge Michael Maggio of Conway was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in federal prison for taking a bribe….
by - March 24, 2016 5:56 pm
U.S. Census estimate updates released Thursday (March 24) show that the Northwest Arkansas metro area accounted for most of the state’s population growth in the past five years, and only…
by - March 24, 2016 4:05 pm
Anxieties about the Arkansas economy have grown significantly in the first quarter as business executives are increasingly concerned that economic conditions in 2016 will be much worse than in 2015,…
by - March 24, 2016 4:05 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 - March 24, 2016 3:51 pm
Little Rock-based Garver USA has given the University of Arkansas $250,000 toward the construction of a new Civil Engineering Research Center. The new 25,000-square-foot facility will be located in the…
by - March 24, 2016 3:51 pm
Little Rock-based Garver USA has given the University of Arkansas $250,000 toward the construction of a new Civil Engineering Research Center. The new 25,000-square-foot facility will be located in the…
by - March 24, 2016 3:48 pm
McKee Foods has partnered with city of Gentry to develop outdoor trails in the Flint Creek Nature Area that will also include a stocked lake for fishing, fishing dock and…
by - March 24, 2016 3:48 pm
McKee Foods has partnered with city of Gentry to develop outdoor trails in the Flint Creek Nature Area that will also include a stocked lake for fishing, fishing dock and…
by - March 24, 2016 3:26 pm
Fort Smith businessman, cattle rancher and quiet philanthropist David McMahon has died. He was 84, and would have been 85 on Saturday (March 26). McMahon, along with wife Mary Ann,…
by - March 24, 2016 3:10 pm
According to a February survey of Arkansas business contacts, a little less than 50 percent expect that economic conditions will worsen in 2016 compared with 2015. Three months earlier, only 14 percent of contacts expected economic conditions to worsen in 2016.
by - March 24, 2016 12:54 pm
SUMMARY: The states largest engineering firm has contributing funding toward a new civil engineering teaching and laboratory space. The College of Engineering has a goal of raising $5 million in private funds to complete the project.
by - March 24, 2016 11:48 am
A draft of the Arkansas Works Act of 2016, which would create the program that would replace the private option, is circulating among legislators and includes recommendations made earlier by…
by - March 24, 2016 10:49 am
Sales tax revenue among Northwest Arkansas’ four largest cities in March was a combined $4.333 million, down 2.11% compared to $4.426 million received in the same month last year. Rogers…
by - March 24, 2016 7:06 am
Republican U.S. Senator John Boozman is lauding the president’s historic visit to Cuba but says the U.S. shouldn’t be more critical of human rights issues there than it is with…
by - March 24, 2016 6:14 am
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, Talk Business & Politics provides “Startup Talk,” a round-up of startup, technology and entrepreneurial news. ––––––––––––––– LONGTIME DIRECTOR RETIRING FROM SMALL BUSINESS ASSISTANCE CENTER Janet Roderick, state director…
by - March 23, 2016 5:56 pm
Editor’s note: Justin Allen is a partner with the Little Rock-based law firm of Wright Lindsey Jennings. He leads the firm’s governmental relations group. Opinions, commentary and other essays posted…
by - March 23, 2016 5:44 pm
Susan Chambers, a retired executive with Wal-Mart Stores, has been named to the Board at Van Buren-based USA Truck. The move is a result of the trucking company’s effort to…
