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Kyle Massey, who was born in Conway and raised in Newport, has been at Arkansas Business since February 2016. He began his journalism career as a sports writer at the Log Cabin Democrat in Conway before moving on as an editor for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and the Charlotte Observer. For 17 years, he served in editing roles at the New York Times in Manhattan. He and his wife, Kerry Prichard, have four grown children.
Little Rock ranks 57th on the list of America's top TV markets in the latest Nielsen roundup, but it punches well above its weight as a news town, and it has become a notable launching pad for TV journalists moving up. read more >
Phillips County Judge Clark Hall is counting on solar power to save his county money and help shine its image. The county has hired Entegrity Partners of Little Rock to build a 400-kilowatt photovoltaic array as part of its major new justice complex near Helena Regional Medical Center. read more >
Silver Development Co., Larry Crain Jr.'s non-car venture, is watching its 188-unit Chenal Village fill up as the high-end duplex project beckons 55-and-up renters. read more >
After decades as a reporter, TV anchor and PR pro and professor, Amy Oliver Barnes managed to bury the lead. read more >
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette readers in Conway get notice that weekday print delivery there will cease in July. The news comes amid talk about a staff meeting in which top officials discussed plans to print only on Sundays by the end of the year. read more >
Bold Team LLC, the cultivation center that brought in Arkansas' first legal marijuana crop, will soon have something for medical marijuana patients to chew on — or vape, or rub into their sore spots. read more >
Legal marijuana sales finally arrived in Arkansas in a $100,000 opening weekend at the state's first two medical cannabis dispensaries, which had together sold about 15 pounds' worth by Monday night. read more >
Shortly after Walmart opened its first Supercenters with food markets in 1988, top executives began to see groceries as the retail titan's future bread and butter. Now Walmart is America's biggest grocery seller, and food is becoming ammunition in the Bentonville company's online duel with Amazon. read more >
A deal to end a power struggle between the state's educational TV network and its nonprofit fundraising foundation is under negotiation. read more >
Entergy Arkansas is publicizing the savings it has achieved over the past five years with MISO, the regional power transmission organization it joined in 2014, even as its parent company looks to the future with an aggressive new plan for reducing the utility's carbon footprint. read more >
