Tag: Industries

Alternative Minimum Tax Sneaks Up On Mid-Incomers

What was meant to keep high-income taxpayers from slipping through loopholes is beginning to hit more and more mid-income level folks.

Siloam Hospital Rebounds Its Books

After Penny McClain arrived at Siloam Springs Memorial Hospital in May 2002, she returned to her then home in Gulf Shores, Ala., only once, to change clothes.

Williams Will Retool For Teaching Position

After serving as dean of the University of Arkansas? Walton College of Business for the past 12 years, Doyle Zane Williams said he will take a year to ?retool? before returning to the classroom to teach accounting in the fall of 2006.

Crossland Brings It to Bentonville (Real Deals)

Crossland starts two school projects. Walker Windwood construction continues.

For Xmas, Buba?s Got a Brand New Bag

Shopping for the person who has everything? Here are a few unique, high-end items available in Northwest Arkansas for last-minute Christmas gifts.

Justice Leaves KNWA For Joplin Station

Rhonda Justice, who has worked for seven years at what is now KNWA, left the television station on Dec. 1 to be an anchor at KOAM-TV, the CBS affiliate that covers Joplin, Mo., and Pittsburg, Kan.

Charge Expected In KFSM Battery

Sgt. Shannon Gabbard said the Fayetteville Police Department has requested that a warrant be issued for the arrest of a 10th grader who threw a bottle that struck a local TV reporter in the head during an rally at Fayetteville High School.

Morning News Markets With Cups

The Morning News has provided about 2,000 coffee cups to 15 restaurants in Northwest Arkansas over the past year.

D-G Ad Fudges on History (Outtakes Opinion)

Before a documentary about Wal-Mart Stores Inc. aired Nov. 16 on PBS?s Frontline, an advertisement for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette said the paper has been ?reporting state, national and international news for 177 years.?

Morning News Headline Writers Fazed by Facts

On Nov. 19, The Morning News published a front-page headline that stated ?Crowd Unfazed By Rain? above a story about the opening of the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock a day earlier.

Logan?s Roadhouse a 3-Star Down-home Joint (Business Lunch)

Logan?s Roadhouse gets three stars.

Ink & Toner Exchange Inc. Opens in Rogers

A new business has opened in Rogers offering professional remanufacturing of ink and toner cartridges for all sorts of printers.

Bill Eddy?s Motorsports LLC Opens In Rogers

Bill Eddy?s Kawasaki of Fayetteville expanded a few years ago to include Yamaha and Suzuki. Now Eddy is renaming his Fayetteville store and has opened a Yamaha store on Hudson Road in Rogers.

Seattle Firm Buys Pleasant Property

Seattle-based John Goodman and Goodman Real Estate Inc., along with others, recently spent $8 million to buy 100 acres at the northeast corner of the Pleasant Grove Road and I-540 interchange from Diane Huffman.

Kizer Leaves U of A, Starts Seminars

Tim Kizer left the University of Arkansas on Dec. 2 to head Doing Business in Bentonville, a series of seminars aimed at vendors to Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Eddy Has Plans For Hanks

When Bill Eddy, local motorcycle kingpin, heard that Hank?s Fine Furniture is moving from its store on Wedington Drive in Fayetteville to CMN Business Park, he knew he?d found a new home.

Area Bars Receive ABC Violations

The Arkansas Alcoholic Beverage Control Board has been cracking down on several Fayetteville restaurants and bars lately for a variety of violations.

Beall Barclay No. 1 on Accounting Firms List

Beall Barclay & Co. of Fort Smith is the region’s largest accounting firm.

Headline: Market Sees Agents Sales Volume Increase

Northwest Arkansas has a total of 3,753 real estate agents registered with the Arkansas Realtors Association. That?s up 10 percent from 3,400 agents in 2003 and 17 percent from 3,199 in 2002.

Land Costs Spike Home Prices

The price of the average starter home goes up as land becomes more expensive. In a few months, area developers won?t even build new homes that cost less than $140,000.

Steve Kueter appointed to Arkansas Game and Fish Commission

Oobotic to open facility in Melbourne

Fayetteville establishes new parental leave policy for city staff

$6 billion in transportation infrastructure needed to accommodate NWA growth