Chicken Sandwich: The Ultimate Comfort 
by Jan Cottingham – 2 days ago
Fried chicken may be the ultimate comfort food. And we all need comfort now more than ever.
Fried chicken may be the ultimate comfort food. And we all need comfort now more than ever.
Hot Springs dispensary owner Dragan Vicentic's penchant for paying for cannabis in cash, disdaining electronic payments, gives marijuana cultivator reason for blacklisting.
It's an extraordinarily rare day that a deer hunt is mounted on a college campus in the middle of the state's biggest city. But Little Rock's Cammack Campus of the University of Arkansas isn't a normal collegiate setting, and the men downing the deer weren't permit-toting hunters.
Westrock Group CEO and co-founder Scott Ford and Southern Bancorp CEO Darrin Williams are among the featured executives scheduled to speak during the spring 2021 Arkansas Business Executive Leadership Academy. read more >
Carlie Tacker and Ike Peters have been hired at CJRW in Little Rock. read more >
Turnabout is fair play in Jefferson County, which gained a medical marijuana cultivation center from Newport this month after losing it to the Jackson County seat more than two years ago. read more >
Arkansas' richest family has had a good year financially. The heirs of Sam Walton own publicly traded stock valued collectively at more than $205 billion. read more >
Let another pesky woman editor encourage you to embrace the spirit of Thanksgiving this year as never before, even as we must limit the traditional togetherness — a small sacrifice by historic standards. read more >
The state's largest medical marijuana merchant says Arkansas cultivators have blackballed his business, and he's planning to sue, alleging they cut off sales after he lobbied for the state to license more growers. read more >
ABC Real Estate LLC, led by Jim Bottin, sold three office buildings on the ABC Financial campus and adjoining properties in Sherwood for a combined $4.5 million transaction read more >
The Arkansas Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Commission has approved $2.4 million in funding for water and wastewater projects serving more than 2,700 people in seven Arkansas communities. read more >
Tyson Foods suspends top officials at its largest pork plant and launches an investigation into allegations that they bet on how many workers would get infected during a widespread coronavirus outbreak. read more >
Arkansas Business and the Best Companies Group last week honored 47 Arkansas companies with "Best Places to Work" awards, which honor firms that have exceptional workplace environments. read more >
Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale on Monday reported revenue of $11.46 billion, an increase over the $10.88 billion in the same quarter last year. Tyson Foods reported quarterly income of $692 million, an 87% increase from $369 million a year ago. read more >
A double dose of dollar store deals in Pulaski and Saline counties and acreage acquisitions in north Pulaski County form this week's quartet of million-dollar transactions. read more >
The first step in addressing these risks that might happen is to consider that these risks can happen and have happened. Consideration should be given to these uncertain, remotely possible, future risks. Nothing should be off the table. read more >
The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits fell last week to 709,000, a still-high level but the lowest figure since March and a further sign that the job market might be slowly healing. read more >
Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale says it will build and expand facilities overseas to increase its international production capabilities. read more >
Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale says it will launch the European version of its Raised & Rooted plant-based protein brand. read more >
Solar businesses fear the toll as U.S. tax credits, now 26%, are set to fall to 22% in 2021 and to 10% for commercial projects only in 2022, barring policy shifts. read more >
A Dumas agribusinessman who admits to selling property used as security for millions of dollars in bank loans expects to be charged by federal prosecutors, but as of Wednesday he was still waiting. read more >
Apartments, hunting ground, office buildings, mobile home parks and big houses dot the landscape in this week's installment of million-dollar real estate transactions. read more >
Farmland in Lonoke County, an office building in west Little Rock, an apartment complex in downtown Little Rock, a dollar store in Roland and future industrial land in east Little Rock form this week's lineup of million-dollar real estate transactions. read more >
Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale said it will test a new camera system that would replace traditional side- and rear-view mirrors on 55 of its trucks. read more >
Marlon Blackwell and his wife, Ati, have pledged $120,000 to create an Advance Arkansas scholarship benefiting Fay Jones School of Architecture & Design students from the Arkansas Delta. read more >
Newport's Iron Mountain Train Depot still has its century-old ticket window, but instead of sending railroad passengers on their way, the refurbished station will soon put Arkansans on a track to better careers. read more >
Dalton Craig and John David have joined AgHeritage Farm Credit Services in Little Rock as credit analyst trainees. read more >
In the next Insights webinar from Arkansas Business, John Satterfield of Amuni Financial and Stan Miller of Wilson+Miller will discuss what effect COVID-19 stimulus funding could have on taxes and individual retirement planning read more >
Dean Banks, the new CEO of Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale, talks about the meat processor's technological future and what it means for sustainability and meeting worldwide demand for protein. read more >
Seventy-six years into its mission, Heifer is thinking bigger and smaller simultaneously, shepherding fewer but more inclusive projects with a slightly reduced workforce. read more >
Donette Spann has been named administrator of the Arkansas Beef Council. read more >
The Arkansas Department of Agriculture announced late Friday that an additional $5.4 million in funding has been approved and awarded through the Arkansas Meat and Poultry Processing Grant Program. read more >
The pace of recent million-dollar real estate transactions picked up considerably this week with a group of 10 streaming onto the scene. read more >
