by - May 13, 2013 5:46 pm
As the major implementation of the Affordable Care Act looms in the near future, area hospitals are working to prepare. The City Wire contacted the large hospital networks in Northwest…
by - December 26, 2012 12:15 pm
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS — It is a common belief that the holidays is a time that is not so jolly for some families, in fact it becomes even scarier as domestic…
by - December 20, 2012 4:55 pm
The state of Arkansas is trending toward its best year for tourism revenues since 2005, according to the latest tourism tax collection data released from the state’s Department of Finance…
by - December 12, 2012 12:03 pm
In order to give an analysis of the state of tourism in Arkansas, it’s almost imperative to look back and see how far we’ve come in the last forty or…
by - October 31, 2012 5:06 pm
Arkansas State Parks are gearing up for winter, but for employees, it's business as usual. Winter turnout generally trails behind spring break through the end of November, officials said, but…
by - October 22, 2012 5:03 pm
About a year ago, NorthWest Arkansas Community College announced it would be the site for the Southern Region National Child Protection Training Center. The campaign goal for that reality was…
by - October 16, 2012 8:05 pm
Martha Johnson, or “Miss Martha” as her students refer to her, doesn’t know the children’s stories. She’s not sure she wants to. You can understand the apprehension as a new…
by - October 1, 2012 5:58 pm
Lloyd Jones was a model registered sex offender. Following his 2001 conviction for rape, he was paroled in 2008 and received discharge two years later. “He was one of my…
by - September 17, 2012 9:52 am
Shael McDonald had been a successful, well-respected paralegal for 15 years when people from the law firm where she worked encouraged her to earn a college degree. McDonald wasn’t the…
by - September 10, 2012 12:43 pm
A young man wakes up and realizes he’s late for day one of his first job. While many adults — perhaps even his boss — would be shaking their heads…
by - September 6, 2012 9:15 pm
In a time of shrinking budgets and growing needs, institutions of higher learning actively work toward diversifying their revenue streams. A major component of these efforts is aggressively seeking out…
by - August 23, 2012 3:48 pm
Even many well established businesses can’t boast the creation of more than 100 jobs in six years, but one University of Arkansas professor has those bragging rights. Carol Reeves, the…
by - August 22, 2012 11:35 am
The cheerful and colorful pinwheels placed throughout Northwest Arkansas every April remind passersby that child abuse still ravages young lives in the community. Each pinwheel represents a child who was…
by - August 21, 2012 3:31 pm
Paula Riggs remembers carefully laying out the plastic across her car seats. It was a day about 15 years earlier when she agreed to transport a 14-year old girl in…
by - August 8, 2012 2:56 pm
Millions of dollars are disbursed annually in Northwest Arkansas and the Fort Smith area from people and organizations with a vision for the future. It’s not money for buildings, or…
by - August 7, 2012 8:21 pm
The state’s higher education chief said that a new initiative aims to bring older students back to college, while at the same time new data could help lawmakers shape future…
by - July 31, 2012 1:20 pm
While Arkansas colleges are benefitting from the Arkansas Lottery Scholarship that helps provide more tuition assistance, state funding for higher education has not kept up with growth. “In Arkansas, we’ve…
by - July 30, 2012 4:08 pm
Shane Broadway, director of the Arkansas Department of Higher Education, left Little Rock early on July 17 to promote the Arkansas Academic Challenge Scholarship, the program funded mostly by the…
by - July 25, 2012 9:13 am
The latest recession will probably be seen as a turning point for college and university financing. Indeed, the initial reaction by many youths to soaring unemployment was to stay in…
by - July 24, 2012 7:05 am
“This hat cost me $110K.” That was the message a 2012 graduate displayed on her mortarboard at her university commencement. The recent flare-up over huge student-loan balances, especially among jobless…
