Texarkana Prepares to Accommodate Marijuana Businesses
TEXARKANA, Ark. — A city in southwest Arkansas is creating a legal structure to accommodate medical marijuana entrepreneurs who are approved for state licenses. A Planning Commission workshop Tuesday...
View ArticleUS Consumer Spending Up Just 0.1 Percent Despite Income Gain
WASHINGTON — Americans enjoyed a healthy increase in income last month but didn't spend much of the gain. The Commerce Department said Friday that personal income rose 0.4 percent in May, up from a 0.3...
View ArticleFunk & Co. Brings Brand Marketing to NWA Clients
Stephanie Funk launches Funk & Co. to help smaller companies with their marketing needs.
View ArticleArkansas Hospitals Fear Changes in Medicaid, Arkansas Works
As the fight over health care continues in Congress, Arkansas hospital executives are worried about changes being made to Arkansas’ Medicaid expansion program known as Arkansas Works, which has saved...
View ArticleHospital Boom Creates Development Ripples Across Northwest Arkansas
Development experts say that hospitals are a great magnet for other retail and residential projects, such as restaurants, service companies and apartments.
View ArticleConstruction Spending Flat in May
U.S. construction spending was flat in May with homebuilding falling again, even as buyers face climbing prices and a shortage of available properties on the market.
View ArticleHow to Score 100 on Marijuana Business Applications in Arkansas
Applications to grow and sell medical marijuana, which are due Sept. 18, will be scored using a 100-point scale.
View ArticleMedical Marijuana Rollout Sparks Interest Among Arkansas Entrepreneurs
The state began accepting applications Friday from those wishing to grow and sell marijuana for medical use, but when the drug might make into the hands of patients is still anyone’s guess.
View ArticleHill, McHenry: CHOICE Act Will Help Community Banks, Fintech Startups
The priorities of two congressmen supporting the Financial CHOICE Act are to offer community banks on “off ramp” from Dodd-Frank regulations, better define systemically important banks and bring...
View ArticleLittle Rock Ranks 9th of 14 on Economic Report Card
The Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway Metropolitan Statistical Area ranked ninth out of 14 MSAs in the region, according to the Fourth Annual Metropolitan Little Rock Economic Report Card.
View ArticleAtkins Chronicle’s Obituary, 123 Years in the Making
Billy Reeder thought he was rescuing the Atkins Chronicle when he took it over at the end of May. A month later, he was shuttering the 123-year-old weekly newspaper, the oldest operating business in...
View Article5 Ways You Can Say It With Positive Language (Sarah Clements Expert Advice)
Have you ever considered how you ask a co-worker or customer to stop doing something? Do you ask in a positive or negative way? Consider restating your message using positive language.
View ArticleSmall-Business CEOs, Your 401(k) Plan Matters (Tim Quillin Expert Advice)
In every facet of 401(k) plans, fees are declining. There are three primary hands in the 401(k) cookie jar: recordkeepers/third-party administrators, investment funds and advisers.
View ArticlePlans for Bathhouse Hotel, Outdoor Spas, Bike Trails Percolate in Hot Springs
News is bubbling up in Hot Springs, where Mayor Pat McCabe and his wife, Ellen, are planning a boutique hotel in the Hale Bathhouse and the city is brainstorming on what to do with the site of the old...
View ArticleWindamere, Markham House Lead Recent Seven-Digit Deals
A 109-unit multifamily project in southwest Little Rock and a 73-room hotel in midtown Little Rock highlight a group of eleven recent multimillion-dollar transactions in Pulaski County.
View ArticleWelcome, and Stay Awhile (Editorial)
A couple of recent stories in these pages bring home the lesson that a city can prosper by embracing and encouraging its transplants.
View ArticleHot Springs Sees Boom in Craft Beer Breweries
Tapping into Hot Springs thermal culture, the craft brewing industry in Spa City is hot.
View ArticleHot Springs Accentuates The Offbeat to Its Marketing Allure
So what does an inventive and industrious tourism marketer do when he already has many of the state’s top attractions? In Hot Springs, one answer is coming up with weirder, stranger things.
View ArticleSPONSORED: Three Principles of Practical Business Planning
Building a model through good research can help project success or failure.
View ArticleBackwoods Bumpers, Chandler Truck Accessories Merge
Backwoods Bumpers Custom Fabrication of Fayetteville has merged with Chandler Truck Accessories of Springdale, a move the companies said would expand manufacturing capabilities for their line of...
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