“New year, new beginnings,” writes northwest Arkansas PR entrepreneur Elise Mitchell, who led a parade of new year’s greetings, big and small, funny and poignant, posted by Arkansas marketing, media and political figures. read more >
Arkansas is less than a year away from tapping a rich new source of economic development, public-private partnerships that will build and operate public assets like college dormitories or parking decks. read more >
Former employees, including the executive director who resigned in February, fear the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub is bound for financial failure two years after merging with Winrock International, but Winrock insists the doomsayers don’t know what they are talking about. read more >
Political analyst and TV commentator Jessica DeLoach has a new job in Washington with The NewDEAL, a network promoting progressive policies and candidates nationwide. read more >
Joel Gordon's last day at the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub was Feb. 2. read more >
Prominent state races could be overshadowed next year by a fight over who will be the top elected official in Arkansas' capital city. read more >
In TV’s world of political talking heads, you won’t find a great many heads lovelier than Jessica DeLoach’s. read more >
The Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub announces that Joel Gordon has been named as its new executive director, effective June 1. read more >
It was Arkansas Advanced Energy Day at the state Capitol, and Sen. Garry Stubblefield was speaking to the state’s top energy efficiency and renewable power companies, but he had to hold to his priorities. read more >
The Arkansas House handily rejected a low-income tax credit proposal backed by Democrats, who said they hope to revive the idea when lawmakers look at deeper tax cuts in two years. read more >
Top Arkansas lawmakers say they'll move quickly on Gov. Asa Hutchinson's proposed $50 million tax cut for low-income residents, but say there are questions about part of his plan to give military veterans a tax break. read more >
Gov. Asa Hutchinson says he'll propose a $50 million tax cut for lower income Arkansans and back a plan that would eliminate state income tax for those who get pensions from the military. The $50 million tax cut would cover about 657,000 Arkansans, he said. read more >
Jeff Stinson will leave his position as director of UALR TechLaunch, but will remain executive director of Fund for Arkansas' Future, a private angel fund. read more >
The Innovation Hub, located at Broadway and Poplar Streets in North Little Rock, offers several programs to cultivate skills development and entrepreneurship. The hub also hosts events and promotes educational initiatives. read more >
Didn’t Arkansans just vote for the kind of no-tolerance ban on wining and dining that State Legislatures Magazine gave us credit for? And yet there’s clearly a loophole in it big enough for a half-dozen open bars every day. read more >
“Patent trolling,” the practice of obtaining large buckets of intellectual property rights with the intention of using them to extract damages and settlement revenue rather than to protect innovation or produce anything, is not a new idea. read more >
Sabin is director of the newly formed Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub, a nonprofit organization that plans to open the entrepreneurship-focused Argenta Innovation Center in downtown North Little Rock. read more >
Anita Davis has collected women’s purses for many years. In June she opened Esse Purse Museum at 1510 S. Main St. in an Art Deco-influenced building artfully reimagined. read more >
In this video, Rep. Warwick Sabin, D-Little Rock, chairman of the House freshman caucus, and Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Hot Springs, House majority leader, talk to THV 11 News about the 89th General Assembly and the opportunities -- and debates -- ahead. read more >
Matt Bell, sous-chef at the Capital Hotel in Little Rock will own South on Main, a Southern restaurant associated with The Oxford American magazine. It is expected to open in February. read more >
