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John George, vice president of Hunt Ventures LLC, climbed a 150-foot crane to deliver the high-elevation photo found in this edition of The Northwest Arkansas Business Journal.

Second Sassy’s?

Popular Fayetteville barbecue restaurant Sassys Red House is eyeing expansion.

Lost License

Longtime Arvest Asset Management executive Jeb Mills lost his broker license recently, possibly in connection with the Dennis Smiley loan fraud scandal.

Jerry Jones: Arkansas Lawmakers, Help Our Students Get Ahead

Editor’s note: This guest commentary was written by Jerry Jones, EVP of Acxiom Corp. and chairman of FASTER, a coalition of business leaders, educators and advocates supporting high-speed Internet in…

Blue Oak Arkansas To Receive Act 9 Bonds

A plan to help a new industry cleared a hurdle this week with Osceola city council members, Mayor Dickie Kennemore said Friday (Dec. 19). The council approved an ordinance to…

Wal-Mart Names New Mexican Chief, Sells Banking Operation

Wal-Mart has named Enrique Ostalé President and CEO of its Walmart de Mexico and Centroamérica, effective Jan. 1, 2015. Ostalé is also chairman of the board of the Mexican retailer’s…

The big deal about TiFiber

Fort Smith business leaders and officials with the Fort Smith Regional Chamber of Commerce were challenged a few years ago to do a better job connecting with the commercialized technologies…

ASU, MSCC To Meet Next Month On Merger

Arkansas State University System President Dr. Charles L. Welch and Mid‐South Community College President Dr. Glen Fenter said progress continues toward a merger agreement between the two entities. Both the…

Crego Retiring As City Attorney

A self-described “music buff” said city officials have worked in concert on many of the issues the city has seen in the past two decades. Phillip Crego, who is retiring…

The more things (tax rules) change …

This past Friday, President Obama signed into law the Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014. Do you remember those Bush tax cuts that were retroactively extended on Jan. 2, 2013…

Holiday travel weather good in the South, poor in upper Midwest and Northeast U.S.

Weather for holiday travel prior to Christmas should be good in large parts of the country, but those traveling in the upper midwest, large parts of the Northeast U.S. and…

Beebe leaving with a stunning image

This week with little fanfare, Gov. Mike Beebe amid a gathering of friends and holiday well-wishers, unveiled his formal portraiture as the 44th Governor of Arkansas. Have you seen it?…

Made In America: For Manufacturers, Shale Boon Is A Gas

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…

Women Entrepreneurs Could Revolutionize Economy

A new study from the Kauffman Foundation centered on women entrepreneurship concluded that more female business owners could have the same economic impact today that the entry of women in the 20th century labor force had generations ago.

Rob Brothers Announces Retirement From Walton Family Foundation

Veteran banker and civic leader, Rob Brothers, announced his pending retirement after five years as the Home Region Program Director at the Walton Family Foundation. “Since his arrival at the…

Weekend Edition: The Sony And Cuba Edition

TV PREVIEW: NEW CONTRIBUTORS & WOMEN IN BUSINESS On this week’s edition of Talk Business & Politics: Gov.-elect Asa Hutchinson makes changes at the top. President Obama doing the same…

Former Ouachita County Judge sentenced for bribery scheme

James Michael Hesterly, 50, of Camden, Ark., was sentenced on Thursday (Dec. 18) to 33 months in prison and one year of supervised release on one count of Bribery Concerning…

ATU-Ozark announces honors in nursing, computer programs

Graduation honors and rates with nursing and computer programs at Arkansas Tech University-Ozark Campus have been announced, with Patricia LaRue of Alma named “Student of the Year” by her classmates…

Rob Brothers announces retirement from Walton Family Foundation