Tag: Fort Smith area home sales

State jobless rate steady at 7.8%

Arkansas’ unemployment rate held steady at 7.8% during February, the same as the January rate, and lower than the 8% during February 2010. Also, the number of unemployed fell from…

Health care implementation bill fails in committee

Editor’s note: Roby Brock, with our content partner Talk Business, wrote this report. He can be reached at [email protected] House Insurance and Commerce committee members failed on Friday (Mar. 25)…

Wind energy lines to be made in Arkansas

Clean Line Energy announced an agreement Thursday (mar. 24) in which the company will purchase cable manufactured at General Cable’s Malvern, Ark., facility for its Plains & Eastern Clean Line….

Gains continue for national truck tonnage index

Freight tonnage hauled by American trucking companies during the first two months of 2011 is up 5.9%, despite a 2.9% dip in February’s Truck Tonnage Index. The American Trucking Associations’…

Big Screen Peter: Paul

Peter is merry about “Paul,” and praises the movie’s injection of British subtlety into a mix of humanity and humor.

Adam & Eats: Bob and Ellie’s

The classic comfort food restaurant adds extra flair to traditional meals that could blow your mind. Consider yourself warned.

Congressional Redistricting: The aftermath

Editor’s note: Roby Brock, with our content partner Talk Business, wrote this report. He can be reached at [email protected] After Wednesday’s move by Democrats to successfully push their "Fayetteville to…

Inflation threat looms over Arkansas, U.S. economy

story by Wesley Brown [email protected] As Arkansas’ economy begins to regain solid footing following the longest downturn since the Great Depression, Arkansas consumers now have something else to worry about…

Mike Anderson is the new Hog basketball coach

submitted by the University of Arkansas Athletics Department Mike Anderson has been named the University of Arkansas’ head men’s basketball coach, it was announced by Vice Chancellor and Director of…

Womack: Proposed Congressional map is ‘absurd’

U.S. Rep. Steve Womack, R-Rogers, said Wednesday afternoon (Mar. 23) that a proposed plan that would pull Fayetteville and portions of eastern Washington County into the 4th Congressional District “redefines…

‘Fayetteville to the Fourth’ Congressional map released

story by Roby Brock and Michael Tilley [email protected] Talk Business has obtained a copy of the much-discussed Congressional redistricting map advocated by several lawmakers, including House State Agencies Chairman Clark…

State personal income growth jumps 3.5% in 2010

story info submitted by Wesley Brown [email protected] Arkansas personal income rose by 3.5% in 2010, the 10th biggest gain among the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, according…

1% signature deadline extended, 4,000 signatures expected

The group of restaurant owners attempting to force an election on enactment of a 1% prepared food tax in Fort Smith have about 3,000 signatures collected and hope to have…

Airport expenses up thanks to winter weather

story by Aric Mitchell [email protected] The aftereffects of 2011’s winter weather continued to resound with the Fort Smith Regional Airport Commission on Tuesday night as Airport Director John Parker pointed…

Investors offer advice, praise for Pryor jobs bill

story by Wesley Brown [email protected] Startup executives and venture capitalists are nearly unanimous in their glowing support of U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor’s recent proposal to give tax breaks to so-called…

Highway bill sees controversial vote; Highway Commission to redraw lines

Editor’s note: Roby Brock, with our content partner Talk Business, wrote this report. He can be reached at [email protected] HB 1902 by House Speaker Robert Moore, D-Arkansas City, was voted…

University chancellors announce compact

The presidents and chancellors of Arkansas’ 11 public universities and two university systems issued a 16-point pledge today aimed at better collaboration and cooperation to advance the state’s higher education…

ABF files brief in $750 million action against YRC

“The judgment of the district court should be reversed.” So reads the complete and simple conclusion in an appeal brief filed Mar. 21 with the Eighth U.S. Court of Appeals…

Elvis returns to Fort Chaffee

When Elvis Presley was inducted into the U.S. Army in 1958, three female fans sent a letter to President Dwight Eisenhower asking him to not cut the young rocker’s hair….