by - February 7, 2024 8:29 am
The Jonesboro metropolitan statistical area (MSA) was recently touted in Area Development magazine’s Leading Metro Locations report for 2023. The Jonesboro MSA achieved an overall ranking of 4th out of…
by - May 10, 2022 4:49 pm
Talk Business & Politics, in partnership with First Security Bank, the Arkansas Department of Commerce and the Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce, will host a “Better Communities” town hall on…
by - March 22, 2021 10:31 am
Craighead County and Jonesboro have consistently set all-time sales and use tax collection records in recent years, and no month has been better than February in terms of setting all-time…
by - February 16, 2021 3:08 pm
Jonesboro and Northeast Arkansas’ largest county, Craighead County, continue an unparalleled sales tax growth pattern that has lasted the better part of a decade. Both the city and county registered…
by - August 10, 2020 4:16 pm
The COVID-19 pandemic has paralyzed many economic sectors as it spread from the northeast to the south and west this spring. Before the pandemic, Jonesboro had experienced historic sales tax…
by - July 22, 2020 5:36 pm
Jonesboro Mayor Harold Perrin has announced that due to a recent but ongoing health issue he will not seek re-election to a fourth term. First elected in 2008, he had…
by - April 21, 2020 2:20 pm
The city of Jonesboro set an all-time sales tax collection record for March, but those numbers are expected to drop drastically as the impacts to the sales tax base in…
by - December 19, 2019 6:13 pm
Jonesboro ranks fifth in the nation among places to work in manufacturing and sixth among cities for working parents, according to Smartasset.com, a website that says it is dedicated to…
by - October 28, 2019 6:08 pm
Northeast Arkansas’ economy continues to thrive if sales and use tax collections are any indication of consumer spending in Craighead County and Jonesboro. In October, the city collected $1.633 million…
by - October 10, 2019 1:00 pm
One measure for a vibrant local economy is the number of commercial real estate projects underway. In Jonesboro, the Embassy Suites by Hilton and Red Wolf Convention Center project is…
by - July 9, 2019 10:39 am
I was on a hay ride in the middle of a pumpkin patch in central Arkansas when my husband, Chad, called to tell me he had just accepted a job…
by - May 22, 2019 9:00 pm
A grassroots organization, Team Jonesboro, has formed with the intention of passing a sales tax hike that the group hopes will improve the safety and standard of living in Northeast…
by - May 7, 2019 6:14 pm
Northeast Arkansas’ hub city and its home county are experiencing the longest sales tax and use growth pattern in history. Jonesboro collected $1.413 million in sales and use taxes during…
by - May 4, 2019 8:57 pm
Jonesboro, Arkansas did not make the final short list for a possible relocation of one of two divisions of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Earlier this year, Trump administration officials…
by - March 13, 2019 1:24 am
Arkansas is among the 67 select semi-finalists still in the running to land the new national headquarters for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) farming-related research and science-funding groups. U.S….
by - October 8, 2018 6:39 pm
The city of Jonesboro has received five grants totaling almost $1.4 million during the past month. The federal and state grants will provide bulletproof vests, body-worn cameras, technology upgrades and…
by - May 18, 2017 5:56 pm
Jonesboro’s economy has almost been impervious to bad numbers during the last 15 months, but one economic indicator has nosed dived in the early part of 2017. The city has…
by - March 27, 2017 3:58 pm
One of Jonesboro Mayor Harold Perrin’s goals has been to eliminate homelessness in the city. A new program, Helping Underserved Belong, HUB will be launched April 4 to help him…
by - March 6, 2017 5:46 pm
Northeast Arkansas’ hub city and its home county continued to show historic economic growth in February. Craighead County collected $1.999 million in sales tax receipts last month, the second most…
by - March 2, 2017 6:40 am
Former city of Jonesboro IT Director Erick Woodruff was placed on a performance improvement plan (PIP) 10 months before he was fired in January after a 2015 audit revealed deficiencies…
