Schools Sue, Mayor Defies Arkansas Mask Mandate Ban
Arkansas’ ban on mask mandates faced new legal challenges and defiance from the mayor of the state capital as Republican lawmakers rejected efforts to roll back the prohibition. read more >
Arkansas’ ban on mask mandates faced new legal challenges and defiance from the mayor of the state capital as Republican lawmakers rejected efforts to roll back the prohibition. read more >
The U.S. Small Business Administration opens a portal allowing certain businesses that received PPP loans to apply directly for forgiveness. read more >
The number of students and staff at a Marion school district who have quarantined because of COVID-19 grew to more than 700 as lawmakers debated whether to allow schools to mandate masks. read more >
Legislators meeting in a special session file two bills dealing with Act 1002, which prohibits state and local governments from imposing mask mandates. read more >
Author and organizational health guru Patrick Lencioni will lead the eighth webcast in a series presented by Arkansas Business throughout 2021. read more >
The Arkansas Department of Agriculture recently provided nearly $1.8 million to fairs across the state. read more >
Gov. Asa Hutchinson calls members of the 93rd General Assembly into a special session to begin at 10 a.m. Wednesday, aiming to give public school boards the power to decide whether to require masks read more >
Arkansas started its fiscal year with revenue coming in $39.2 million above forecast, the state's finance office said Tuesday. read more >
Arkansas reported 42 new COVID-19 deaths Monday and its biggest one-day spike in coronavirus hospitalizations since the pandemic began. read more >
After much delay, senators unveiled a nearly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package, wrapping up days of painstaking work on the inches-thick bill and launching what is certain to be a lengthy debate over President Joe Biden’s big priority. read more >
This week’s real estate train is pulling a seven-car load of million-dollar transactions. read more >
After naming Washington correspondent Frank Lockwood as its religion editor once again, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Managing Editor Eliza Gaines told Whispers last week that the newspaper would not be letting the job go fallow in the nation’s capital. read more >
Walmart Inc. of Bentonville has asked a federal judge to throw out the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against it over allegations that its pharmacists unlawfully dispensed opioids, fueling the national opioid crisis. read more >
Innovator Health of Little Rock is struggling to meet increasing demand from health care providers for its telemedicine technology, now considered a “must-have” to expand capacity and reach patients after the pandemic. read more >
The COVID-19 pandemic pushed the use of telemedicine in Arkansas five years ahead of where it would be otherwise. read more >
In 2020, life expectancy at birth for the total U.S. population was 77.3 years, a drop of 1.5 years from 78.8 in 2019, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. read more >
The tools will change but not our mission of providing meaningful content that our business audience can’t get anywhere else. read more >
Effective communication designed to encourage consumers to make the desired decision is based on not telling them what you want but showing them how to get what they want. read more >
American consumers increased their spending by 1% in June — a dose of energy for an economy that is quickly rebounding from the pandemic recession but is facing new risks led by the delta variant of the coronavirus. read more >
Gov. Asa Hutchinson calls a special legislative session to consider amending a law prohibiting mask mandates by state and local governments. read more >
