A-State, Companies Offer Employees Help With Furthering Their Education
Four companies have partnered with Arkansas State University to help their employees who want to earn credit hours toward a degree. read more >
Northeast Arkansas
State Department of Agriculture Announces $5M Grant Program
The Arkansas Department of Agriculture has received $5 million in federal CARES Act funding for its Meat & Poultry Processing Grant Program. read more >
Mel Coleman, Diana Holmes Join Today's Power Board
Longtime North Arkansas Electric Cooperative CEO Mel Coleman has been elected to the board of North Little Rock solar energy provider Today's Power Inc., along with Blytheville financial planner Diana Holmes. read more >
Lyon College Partners With Austin Firm on COVID-19 Testing
Lyon College in Batesville recently announced its partnership with the COVID Health Project, which will provide turnkey coronavirus testing to help the college resume day-to-day operations this fall. read more >
AEDC Distributes $7M in CDBG to Arkansas Cities, Counties
The Arkansas Economic Development Commission announces more than $7 million in Community Development Block Grants to 23 Arkansas counties and communities. read more >
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NYITCOM to Provide Contact Tracing for ASU System
The New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine has reached an agreement with the Arkansas State University System to conduct COVID-19 contact tracing for each of the system's campuses across the state. read more >
Smoke Clears on Cannabis Cards
Medical marijuana patients in Arkansas have been getting mixed signals about when their cards — whose expiration dates have been extended during the coronavirus pandemic — will start to expire. read more >
The Problem With Big Numbers (Gwen Moritz Editor's Note)
When numbers get big and a natural context is lacking, even accurate numbers become meaningless. read more >
Distilleries Pouring Out New Products
Five Arkansas distilleries are working on new products, and business is flowing steadily for them, despite the COVID-19 pandemic delaying the opening of a sixth and bringing a seventh to a standstill. read more >
Spurlock Rises at Ozarka College (Movers & Shakers)
James Spurlock has been promoted to assistant vice president of campus operations at Ozarka College in Melbourne. read more >
Qualls to Chair A-State's Computer Science Department
Arkansas State University in Jonesboro has named Jake Qualls interim chair of its Department of Computer Science, effective Aug. 16. read more >
Cotton Plant Gets $497K ARC Grant for Broadband
The Arkansas Department of Commerce announced Thursday that it has awarded the city of Cotton Plant (Woodruff County) a $497, 001 Arkansas Rural Connect grant to deploy fixed wireless internet there. read more >
Kade Holliday: Former County Clerk Accused of Fraud, All That Jazz
Five weeks after allegations surfaced that former Craighead County Clerk Jacob “Kade” Holliday had embezzled more than $1.6 million from taxpayers, another purported victim was still looking for answers. read more >
Walmart CTO Tops Executive Compensation List
Walmart CTO Suresh Kumar's experience explains why his total compensation for the first seven months he spent at Walmart made him the highest-paid executive among Arkansas' public companies. read more >
Cascading Failure (Gwen Moritz Editor's Note)
The biggest disasters are rarely the result of a single, isolated failure. read more >
Lyon College, Texas Firm Partner on Remote Learning
As Lyon College in Batesville keeps its students at home this fall, the private institution is piloting remote-learning software, hardware and services provided by Apogee of Austin, Texas. read more >
Work From Home Is Not About the Technology (Barry Goldberg On Leadership)
Organizations are looking hard at how to make working from home work. The remote worker genie is absolutely not going back in the bottle. read more >
O'Donnell Pleads Guilty to Killing Linda Collins
Rebecca Lynn O'Donnell reaches a deal with prosecutors and pleads guilty to killing former state Rep. Linda Collins. read more >
NYITCOM at A-State Awarded $428K Grant For Migraine Research
An assistant professor of basic sciences at the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University has secured a multi-year grant for $428,400 from the National Institutes of Health. read more >
Arkansas Business Seeks Nominations for CFO of the Year
Arkansas Business is now taking nominations for its annual CFO of the Year Awards. Honorees will be honored during a virtual livestream awards ceremony on Dec. 15. read more >
Something Good Can Come of This (Gwen Moritz Editor's Note)
I'm hopeful that some lasting changes for the better will come out of COVID-19 because that's a common thread in human history. read more >
Hendrixson, Morris Advance at Citizens Bank (Movers & Shakers)
Lisa Hendrixson has been promoted to senior vice president and director of deposit operations, while Amanda Morris has been hired as vice president and market retail manager of Citizens Bank in Batesville. read more >
Agricultural Partnership Goes Solar in Jonesboro
TPI, of North Little Rock, partnered with Craighead Electric Cooperative, Southland Gin Inc. of Lake City and Delta Farms Inc. to develop a 2-megawatt array of solar generation capacity with battery storage that is expected to bring long-term savings to the gin and farming operation for two decades. Officials gathered to ceremonially “flip the switch” on Friday afternoon. read more >
Video: Watch the 2020 Arkansas Business 40 Under 40 Virtual Awards Ceremony
Honorees in this year's Arkansas Business 40 Under 40 class shared insights about leadership, retaining talent in Arkansas and key influences at this year's awards celebration, available now to watch here. read more >
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Arkansas Employment Index Still in Recovery
Nonfarm payroll employment in Arkansas rose by 23,700 in June, an increase of 2%, while the national total rose by 3.6%. read more >
New Bank Name Is on Horizon For Arkansas
First Horizon National Corp. of Memphis officially crossed the Mississippi River and entered Arkansas on July 2 with the completion of its $2.3 billion stock swap purchase of IberiaBank Corp. of Lafayette, Louisiana. read more >
FMB Doubles Its Presence in Jonesboro
A year after entering Jonesboro's $2.6 billion-deposit market, Farmers & Merchants Bank of Stuttgart is expanding its branch network with a second location. read more >
Be Careful Out There (Gwen Moritz Editor's Note)
A $2.4 million scam perpetrated against the Arkansas Department of Transportation is a particularly useful case for business executives to consider since it involves a simple, unsophisticated and yet exceptionally effective form of fraud, and any business that pays employees or vendors is vulnerable. read more >
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