Tag: Fort Smith area home sales

‘It’s Complicated’ is banal and disconnected, but in a funny way

Peter says the acting of Streep and Baldwin save the movie from being typical Hollywood tripe.

Westphal family increases donation to Marshals Museum

The Westphal family has donated another 2.36 acres to the U.S. Marshals Museum, boosting the family’s total land donation to almost 6 acres of prime riverfront property. News of the…

Official call made for Christmas Honors support

The Fort Smith Regional Chamber of Commerce issued the following press release Wednesday (Jan. 6) providing information about the Christmas Honors project. The release includes a call for volunteers to…

Bad credit

Fitch reports that credit card delinquencies hit a new record.

Arkansas Best officials not focused on YRC troubles

While the bankruptcy of national trucking giant YRC would boost the fortunes of Fort Smith-based Arkansas Best Corp., officials with the Fort Smith trucking company aren’t pinning their hopes on…

Realtor talks ups, downs of Alma-area housing market

story by Marla Cantrell [email protected] Blake Rogers, owner of Jim White Realty in Alma, was happy to talk about the effects of the lackluster economy on house sales. He just…

Fort Smith Town Club closes 3 weeks earlier than planned

The Fort Smith Town Club closed its doors Tuesday (Jan. 6), more than three weeks before the original closing date of Jan. 31. Town Club board member Phil White said…

Trouble with China?

A global consulting group is concerned about U.S.-China relations.

Fort Smith metro jobless rate remains high in November

Those Mitsubishi and Oxane jobs can’t get here fast enough. Fort Smith’s metro unemployment rate in November was 7.7%, a slight improvement over the 7.8% in October. Unfortunately, the October…

Arkansas tax collections continue decline

A declining tax revenue problem that caused Gov. Mike Beebe to cut the fiscal 2010 state budget by $100 million continues. Arkansas tax collections between July and December are $2.577…

Arkansas has several groups able to help entrepreneurs, small business owners

Stockman says the state’s “tool kit” of organizations is able to support growing or medium-sized businesses.

Arkansas debt owed to Feds balloons to $222.6 million

Arkansas’ unemployment insurance tab as of Dec. 31 with Uncle Sam was $222.61 million, lower than an early October projection of $223.8 million at year’s end. But the tab could…

2010: ‘No time for sissies’

While no sampling is ever 100% accurate, a recent collection of opinions from area business and civic leaders suggests creation of the Regional Intermodal Transportation Authority was a key 2009…

Banned words

A Michigan-based university seeks to bury “Shovel-ready.”

Still watching out for the SOBs

Editor’s note: This essay first appeared Dec. 28, 2008, on The City Wire. It continues to be an appropriate note to begin a new year. It’s just another day, really….

Certain uncertainty

Potts predicts higher interest rates and more regulation. Welcome to 2010.

Scene by Carson: There is much to do in the first month of this new decade

Amanda points the way to wreaths, turkeys, brides and a female music trio. And remember to take down those holiday decorations.

Arkansas lottery sales average $1.39 million a day

The Arkansas Scholarship Lottery announced Friday (Jan. 1) that its first 95 days of lottery sales totaled $132.097 million. According to the ASL statement, the first instant ticket was sold…

Tinsel and Tails throws a party to fight Alzheimer’s

More than 375 revelers ring in the New Year with steak, champagne and Screaming Radishes.

Stock markets mostly positive in 2009 for Arkansas-based companies

Fort Smith-based Baldor Electric Co. and Little Rock-based Dillard’s Inc. were the big winners — with stock gains of 52% and 332%, respectively — in 2009 among the more prominent…