by - November 14, 2008 7:56 am
The Web site of the Arkansas Department of Workforce Services (DWS) contains much information about job numbers, industry sectors, career guidance publications and other labor market related stuff. Included in…
by - November 13, 2008 10:12 pm
T.V Recycling Event to be held in Fort Smith and Fayetteville Dec. 6, 2008. Bedford Camera & Video and Channel Five KFSM are sponsoring a TV recycling drive titled “The…
by - November 13, 2008 4:04 pm
The Associated Press reported earlier today that Fort Smith-based Riverside Furniture will lay off 250 employees in Fort Smith and Russellville and will combine two of its operations in Fort…
by - November 13, 2008 2:56 pm
Come learn how to keep your children safe from the dangers of the web at the Child Internet Safety Summit hosted by Congressman John Boozman. Special guests to speak include Hoyt…
by - November 13, 2008 12:46 pm
Meredith Whitney wasn’t saying that Wall Street bankers were corrupt. She was saying they were stupid.
by - November 13, 2008 10:42 am
The ticket for the five games? $125 million.
by - November 13, 2008 7:28 am
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reported mostly good news this morning with its third-quarter financial earnings release. The Bentonville-based retailer posted third-quarter sales of $97.63 billion, up 7.5 percent over the $90.82…
by - November 12, 2008 8:44 pm
News broke late Wednesday that the federal government is not happy with the financial and development practices at the Fort Smith Housing Authority. More specifically, the Inspector General of the…
by - November 12, 2008 2:12 pm
T. Boone Pickens is going to love this. If preliminary reports are true, a natural gas field in Alaska’s North Slope could be a game changer in terms of domestic…
by - November 12, 2008 1:16 pm
It’s been known that deep job cuts are coming to Arkansas ever since the $28 billion deal by Verizon Wireless to buy Little Rock-based Alltel Corp. was announced. Alltel employs…
by - November 12, 2008 10:00 am
Spoiler alert: It’s a $72 billion a year business.
by - November 12, 2008 8:58 am
Jake Files of Fort Smith will soon decide if he will seek the post of party chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party. Files is a former member of the Arkansas…
by - November 11, 2008 6:49 pm
The once well-organized and very public grass-roots effort to promote the funding and construction of Interstate 49 through western Arkansas has generated little more than silence in the past few years.
by - November 11, 2008 5:48 pm
Regions with strong entrepreneurial programs have 125 percent more employment growth, 58 percent more wage growth and a 63 percent higher percentage of high-tech businesses. The Fort Smith region is not yet one of these entrepreneurial regions. But a few folks are working on it.
by - November 11, 2008 4:04 pm
On Friday (Nov. 7), The City Wire reported on a confusing advertising circular mailed by Target Corp. to Fort Smith area residents prior to the opening of its Fort Smith…
by - November 11, 2008 2:57 pm
Fort Smith-based Baldor Electric Co. continues with its history of dividend payments by announcing Tuesday a quarterly cash dividend of 17 cents per share. The payments are scheduled for Jan….
by - November 11, 2008 2:24 pm
Uncle Sam to pony up $50 billion.
by - November 11, 2008 6:37 am
Minor downward price adjustments and a steadily declining home inventory suggest relative stability in the Fort Smith and Van Buren residential real estate market. Average and median prices of new…
by - November 11, 2008 6:19 am
(Editor’s note: This essay was first published in November 2002 when I was business editor of the Times Record. A version of that essay can be found here.) This week…
by - November 10, 2008 4:53 pm
Conventional home loan money readily available in Arkansas.
