by - July 9, 2015 5:58 pm
Wal-Mart is making a habit of Christmas shopping in early July with its Open Call event that invited 340 suppliers into its backyard for a chance to pitch their nearly 600 inventions.
by - July 7, 2015 6:57 pm
Arkansas ended its fiscal year on June 30 with a nearly $200 million surplus, but lawmakers and the Governor aren’t unified in how to spend it yet.
by - July 6, 2015 12:33 am
Political columnist John Brummett muses on lingering sentiments for the semi-home state presidential candidates in Arkansas’ new political climate.
by - July 4, 2015 7:16 am
How long has it been since you read the full text of the Declaration of Independence? On this July 4th holiday weekend, we present a refresher.
by - July 1, 2015 4:44 pm
This Arkansas summer is hot and right along with it the July/August magazine edition of Talk Business & Politics is hot off the press. It’s packed with lots of news, interviews and commentaries, including an in-depth interview with new AEDC director Mike Preston.
by - June 30, 2015 8:59 pm
The Truth in Advertising group has found more than 100 items sold on Walmart.com that were incorrectly identified as “Made in the U.S.A.”
by - June 28, 2015 9:18 am
The iconic ball cap worn by Sam Walton, a miniature Wal-Mart truck and short biographical stories of Walton’s retail rise are among more than 600 artifacts woven into the fabric of the “American Enterprise” exhibit set to open July 1 at the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
by - June 28, 2015 12:33 am
This week in the nation’s capital, lawmakers took up issues involving trade and security, while two Supreme Court cases late in the week drew the ire of the state’s congressional delegation.
by - June 26, 2015 8:28 am
The United States Supreme Court ruled Friday that same-sex marriage in the United States is legal, granting marriage rights to couples on a politically divided issue.
by - June 25, 2015 8:30 am
In a 6-3 ruling Thursday, the United States Supreme Court upheld the use of healthcare subsidies in connection with the Affordable Care Act.
by - June 24, 2015 10:48 am
A May survey of business contacts in the Little Rock Zone of the Federal Reserve Bank shows a little more than half of respondents expect economic conditions in 2015 will be better than in 2014. That’s down from a survey three months ago.
by - June 22, 2015 9:59 pm
Bentonville-based Wal-Mart Stores says a report generated by union groups regarding the retailer’s use of tax havens to shield U.S. taxes is “flawed.”
by - June 22, 2015 5:22 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson has directed the Department of Education to withdraw Arkansas from the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) consortium, despite a vote June 11 by the State Board of Education to keep Arkansas in the consortium.
by - June 21, 2015 8:16 am
New survey data shows Republican Mike Huckabee would beat Democrat Hillary Clinton, and former Democratic Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe would lead incumbent GOP Sen. John Boozman under hypothetical head-to-head match-ups.
by - June 19, 2015 8:20 pm
U.S. Senator Tom Cotton has seen his job approval numbers slip, but Gov. Asa Hutchinson remains extremely popular, according to new polling data from Talk Business & Politics, Hendrix College and Impact Management Group.
by - June 19, 2015 5:00 am
A woman’s place is not in the kitchen – it’s on the $10 bill, and a group of Jonesboro leaders want to see an Arkansas historical and political icon earn that distinction.
by - June 17, 2015 4:25 pm
It’s possible that by Thursday, a U.S. Supreme Court decision will result in 68,232 Arkansans losing insurance subsidies provided through the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare. If that happens, state policymakers will have to decide how to respond.
by - June 16, 2015 3:36 pm
Arkansas may score another superproject coup if a full-scale gas-to-liquids (GTL) processing refining facility developed by two former top Clinton administration officials – Gen. Wesley Clark and Rodney Slater –…
by - June 15, 2015 8:38 am
Pat O’Brien, a small business owner in Arkansas, recently attended a State Chamber of Commerce-organized trip to Cuba. He offers the following observations on a week-long journey.
by - June 14, 2015 8:06 am
The world is shrinking and productivity is improving thanks to technological advances, and business leaders in the field say Americans – and Arkansans – will likely be twice as “connected” to their devices in the next five years.
