Regions

Guess who’s coming to dinner

Some or all members of the Fort Smith Board of Directors often gather at a restaurant following their regularly scheduled voting meetings. The media has not received advanced notice of…

Pryor’s foreign affairs dodge

A kink in the format may leave many disappointed that a platform for foreign affairs is not on the program in the first, and at present only televised debate, between…

Suicide prevention programs helped by Charity Challenge of Champions

The crowd of 250 gathered at Pinnacle Country Club on Friday night made a difference in the lives of people in all 75 counties across Arkansas by participating in the…

Hutchinson, Ross: Round Two In Jonesboro

The two major party candidates for Arkansas governor were back on the campaign trail Saturday just hours after their first major televised debate, but observers may have thought the debate was still continuing.

Gov. Beebe Papers Heading To ASU

The papers, videos, photographs and memorabilia of Gov. Mike Beebe’s eight years in the state’s highest office will soon reside at Arkansas State University, university officials said Saturday. Beebe, a…

Hutchinson, Ross camps claim victory in first televised debate

Democrat Mike Ross and Republican Asa Hutchinson sat face to face across a table during a sometimes testy, occasionally snippy gubernatorial debate Friday night on KARK-TV that featured confrontations over…

Weekend Digest: The NFL In Hot Water Edition

ANALYZING THE GOVERNOR DEBATE This Sunday on Talk Business & Politics, we’ll analyze the big Arkansas Governor’s debate between Republican Asa Hutchinson and Democrat Mike Ross. What issues were discussed?…

Tolbert: DPA Tracker FOIA Request Preceded Media Report On Rutledge

For those that closely follow Arkansas politics, things got a bit exciting Wednesday evening. A headline from the Associated Press posted shortly after 5:00 pm read “AG hopeful criticized ‘wacko’…

Tolbert: Debate Showed Asa As Frontrunner

I will direct you to Steve Brawner’s post for a good objective blow by blow of last’s night Arkansas gubernatorial debate on KARK. You can also watch the whole replay…

Chris Masingill: Ensuring A Resilient Region By Training A Skilled Workforce

Editor’s note: This guest commentary was provided by Chris Masingill, who serves as the Federal Co-Chairman of the Delta Regional Authority. The DRA is a federal-state partnership whose mission is…

Bill Nye challenges University of Arkansas audience to ‘change the world’

He had not yet even spoke and already the crowd was on their feet Friday night (Sept. 19) with a sustained applause that lasted so long, Bill Nye "The Science…

Hutchinson, Ross Square Off In First TV Debate

Friday night, Democrat Mike Ross and Republican Asa Hutchinson – the two major party candidates for Arkansas Governor – battled for an hour on statewide television.

ASU Hosts Renewable Energy Conference

A plant grown in Eastern Europe may very well help to fuel bio-diesel programs as well as vehicles for an Arkansas town, an official with Arkansas State University’s College of…

First Saturday of Fall – Sunset Dinner Cruise

You cannot beat Mother Nature and Beaver Lake. What a great way to spend an evening with your family on the last day of summer. Take a lake cruise on…

Leadership Jonesboro Holds Graduation

The song “Pomp and Circumstance” may not have been heard Friday, but 18 graduates of a leadership program made it through a year-long education program. The Jonesboro Regional Chamber of…

Arkansas’ workforce, number of employed continues decline in August report

There are an estimated 28,614 fewer Arkansans in the workforce and 8,434 fewer Arkansans employed in August compared to August 2013. The August jobless rate was 6.3%, up from 6.2%…

Forsgren picked as contractor for osteopathic college

The proposed Arkansas Colleges of Health Education announced Friday (Sept. 19) that Forsgren Inc. of Fort Smith was selected as the contractor for site preparation for its new college of…

Deputy Marshals Fire the Cannon

September 24 at 2:00pm On September 24th the U.S. Marshals Museum will finally be breaking ground! To celebrate this event Fort Smith NHS staff and volunteers will be firing the…

Flintlock Muskets of Fort Smith

October 4th at 11:00am and 2:00pm One of the ways to better understand the life of early Fort Smith soldiers is to better understand the weapons they carried, especially their…

Big Guns of the Civil War

October 11th at 11:00am and 2:00pm Do you enjoy the thunder and smoke of Civil War cannon? Many people do but there is much more to cannons than just the…