Steuart Walton, Sam Walton's grandson, heads the state's pandemic recovery task force and discusses the virus, the response and the criticism.
Stephanie Osborne wouldn't exactly characterize her first weeks as executive director of the Arkansas Advanced Energy Association as “settling in.”
Myron Jackson, CEO of The Design Group in Little Rock, took a long view of the civil rights and Black Lives Matter movements last month during an interview on multicultural marketing, reminding Whispers that George Floyd had a famous Arkansas-born forerunner.
The Arkansas Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Commission awarded $14 million to 10 communities for water and wastewater projects serving more than 8,256 people. read more >
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week to 860,000, a historically high number of people that illustrates the broad economic damage still taking place nine months after the first case of COVID-19 was detected in the U.S. read more >
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday blocked a referendum on a law expanding the procedures optometrists can perform. read more >
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded the University of Arkansas at Little Rock a $2.1 million, five-year grant to help more students succeed and graduate from college. read more >
The Viola School District Board of Education did more than going through the motions and seconds at its monthly meeting Sept. 17: It broke ground on a campus-based solar array expected to supply 90% of district electricity needs. read more >
The Federal Reserve expects to keep its benchmark interest rate pegged near zero at least through 2023 as it strives to accelerate economic growth and drive down the unemployment rate. read more >
More than 600 new coronavirus cases were confirmed in Arkansas and seven more deaths were reported Wednesday while a new White House report kept the state in the red zone for new virus cases per capita, officials said. read more >
Jesus Delgado-Calle, Ph.D., an assistant professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, has been awarded a National Cancer Institute grant of more than $1.7 million to study ways bone therapy might repair damaged bone and prevent or delay relapse in myeloma patients. read more >
Arkansas surpasses 1,000 total deaths from the illness caused by the coronavirus, including more than 100 newly-counted fatalities from probable cases over the past several weeks. read more >
The World Trade Organization said Tuesday that Trump administration tariffs on Chinese goods totaling more than $200 billion are illegal under the rules of the global trade body. read more >
Lorrie Trogden was named president and CEO of the Arkansas Bankers Association in October 2018. She is the first woman to fill the role for the organization, which was established in 1891. read more >
Arkansas on Monday reported 399 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 10 more deaths from the illness caused by the virus. read more >
Skip Rutherford, dean of the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock, says he will retire on June 30. read more >
Mervin Jebaraj works at the University of Arkansas' Walton College of Business so it is apropos that he has a grade for the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic. read more >
Clint Rhoden, the executive director of the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System, emphasizes the importance of having a plan and following it. read more >
The Arkansas Teacher Retirement System expects to see a loss of 1% on its investments for its fiscal year that ended June 30, marking the first decrease since 2009. read more >
Commit this to memory so you can stop being surprised: Wherever there are human beings, there will be waste, fraud and abuse. read more >
Wealth managers and national experts agree that clients' long-term goals, rather than political winds, should drive investment decisions. read more >
Is it any wonder that the phrase “May I provide you with some feedback?” sets up an emotional loop almost guaranteed to grate on nerves and create stress? read more >
Misty Orpin is handing off her latest baby, the pandemic news and data site arkansascovid.com, which she birthed on her laptop and raised to indispensability. read more >
Arkansas health officials on Sunday reported 508 newly confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 12 additional deaths. read more >
Arkansas on Friday reported a new daily record for confirmed coronavirus cases, surpassing the one-day record increase set a week ago. read more >
Gov. Asa Hutchinson has appointed Susannah Marshall as the next Arkansas State Bank Department commissioner. read more >
Arkansas reported nearly 1,300 active coronavirus cases at its colleges and universities Thursday, as well as 525 in its public schools. read more >
Arkansas reports 385 more confirmed cases of the coronavirus as a White House task force said the state has one of the highest rates for new cases in the country. read more >
Hoping to replicate a strategy that has long been seen as key to his appeal among conservative voters, President Donald Trump announces he is adding 20 names to a list of Supreme Court candidates that he's pledged to choose from if he has future vacancies to fill. read more >
Arkansas health officials say their biggest growth in new coronavirus cases is among college-aged people as the number of active infections at the University of Arkansas' main campus approached 1,000. read more >
Bumper-sticker mentality was a problem before social media, but it required acquiring a bumper sticker and deciding that sharing a nuance-free opinion with tail-gaters was worth putting sticky gunk on the car's bumper. Now spreading opinions — and, all too often, demonstrably false information from unknown sources — can be done with a click. read more >
The Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway Metropolitan Statistical Area now has a population of about 750,000, according to a report by Metroplan, the planning agency for Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski and Saline counties. read more >
Zuni Learning Tree of Conway recently received a $200,000 Small Business Innovation Research grant from the U.S. Department of Education to build a new feature for its namesake online educational platform. read more >
