Everything's Bigger With Texas (Lance Turner Editor's Note)
It's well established that Arkansas has more than its fair share of banking talent. And that talent's been on display throughout the year. read more >
Lance Turner is editor of Arkansas Business. He joined Arkansas Business in May 1999 and was Online Editor from 2000 to 2021, overseeing content for ABPG sites, including ArkansasBusiness.com, where he edited the Daily Report enewsletter.
He appears regularly on KTHV-TV, Channel 11, providing daily business news reports on the CBS affiliate's morning show, "Wake Up Central." He's also been a panelist and guest host of Arkansas PBS' weekly public affairs program, "Arkansas Week."
It's well established that Arkansas has more than its fair share of banking talent. And that talent's been on display throughout the year. read more >
A flurry of November news has implications for Arkansas business and politics next year. read more >
Simmons First National Corp. of Pine Bluff is acquiring Spirit of Texas Bancshares Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Spirit of Texas Bank SSB, in a cash and stock deal valued at about $581 million. read more >
Here are five things that business, in general, can be thankful for. read more >
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge drops out of the race for governor and will seek the lieutenant governor's office instead. read more >
Downtown businesses and boosters have a big stake in the success of two Little Rock skyscrapers entangled in legal battles. read more >
The lowest scoring but most expensive company bidding to devise a statewide broadband deployment strategy was selected in a process one competitor thinks was tailor-made for the politically connected vendor. read more >
The prospects for a hectic holiday shipping season remain high. read more >
Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson last week held his nose and allowed to become law without his signature two identical bills, SB739 and HB1977, that allow employees to opt out of workplace vaccination requirements. read more >
It took a little more than 60 years for Arkansas' premier shopping center to go from top shelf to the discount bin. read more >
