Former President Bill Clinton said efforts to increase access to credit and financial assistance in underserved areas can help bridge America’s partisan divide, as he and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, hosted a daylong summit focused on economic inequality. read more >
Mary Lowe Good, a scientist, distinguished educator, successful researcher in private business and high-ranking official who served in the U.S. Department of Commerce under President Clinton, dies at 88. read more >
The Arkansas Educational Television Network Commission briskly voted to approve a compromise with its fundraising arm Tuesday morning, ending months of feuding with the AETN Foundation. read more >
Arkansas' seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.5% last month, according to a report by the Arkansas Division of Workforce Services. read more >
Arkansas Business announces 35 businesses, nonprofits and executives from around the state as finalists for its 32nd Annual Business of the Year Awards. read more >
The Arkansas Educational Television Network Commission, stuck in a monthslong standoff with its own fundraising nonprofit, the AETN Foundation, will meet in a teleconference call at 11:30 a.m. read more >
Express Rx opened its new headquarters in Little Rock last week and plans to create 24 upper-level management and support staff jobs. read more >
More than $8.5 million of new and pending utility improvement projects are underway in and around Helena-West Helena. Pieces of the infrastructure puzzle are moving into place to enhance local economic prospects as well as industrial recruitment. read more >
Mark Cayce, general manager of Ouachita Electric Cooperative, talks about innovation and renewable power’s potential to cut electricity rates. read more >
Arkansas’ Republican governor and the leaders of the state’s top lobbying groups have launched a campaign to keep a half-cent sales tax for road needs. read more >
New rules from the Trump administration on Friday would require insurers and hospitals to disclose upfront the actual prices for common tests and procedures to promote competition and push down costs. read more >
Trade policy has been a “shock” to the economy, and uncertainty over it is rising sharply, Kevin Kliesen of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis said Thursday at the Little Rock Regional Economic Briefing. read more >
Little Rock teachers are striking for the first time in more than three decades over the state’s control of the local school system and a panel’s decision to strip their union’s collective bargaining rights. read more >
The parent company of Walmart has sued dozens of counties in Colorado where the company has store locations. The company claims its stores’ equipment is being overvalued. read more >
Brett Palmer, president of the Small Business Investor Alliance, says there is a gap in access to capital and closing that gap is critical to economic growth. read more >
The Democratic candidate hoping to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton in Arkansas abruptly dropped out of the race Tuesday, citing a family health concern, leaving Democrats with no one to contest the seat. read more >
The Democratic candidate hoping to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton has dropped out of the race. And Republican Rep. French Hill gets a Democratic challenger. read more >
Michael Bloomberg files paperwork to appear on the ballot in Arkansas' March 3 presidential primary, the latest indication the billionaire former New York mayor may seek the Democratic nomination. read more >
Former White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders and her husband Bryan have purchased a home in Little Rock's Pleasant Valley neighborhood for $600,000. read more >
Herbology, the first Little Rock medical marijuana dispensary to seek state inspection, didn’t make its Nov. 7 goal for opening, disappointing local patients still waiting to inhale. read more >
