Resource Guide: Financial Tools, Aid for Businesses Hurt by COVID-19
Arkansas Business is regularly updating this page with links and contact information for businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. read more >
Tagged: Legal
Inside New Retirement Provisions of the CARES Act (Commentary)
As part of the $2 trillion economic relief package signed into law on March 27, Congress relaxed certain restrictions and requirements on retirement funds. Here's what to know. read more >
Lawsuit Challenges Arkansas Takeover of Little Rock Schools
A second lawsuit was filed Tuesday challenging Arkansas' ongoing control of the Little Rock school district and the limits the state has placed on the incoming local school board. read more >
Arkansas Businesses Should Prepare Now to Apply for Federal Aid
Businesses can begin preparing now to apply for assistance under the federal rescue package signed last week by President Trump, but it will be about two weeks before they can turn in their paperwork. read more >
Marriott Says New Data Breach Affects 5.2M Guests
Marriott says guests’ names, loyalty account information and other personal details may have been accessed in the second major data breach to hit the company in less than two years. read more >
Arvest Says Greenhaw's Fit for Foreclosure
Although Greenhaw’s Fine Men’s Wear at 10301 N. Rodney Parham Road in Little Rock shuttered last summer after 45 years in business, it remains embroiled in foreclosure litigation. read more >
Plantiffs Take Stance Against Buffalo Brewing
Buffalo Brewing Co. has been sued, twice, by its former landlord and by a subcontractor. read more >
Fed Projects Decade's Fastest-Growing Occupations
Employment in the United States is forecast to grow by 8.4 million jobs to 169.4 million jobs during the decade of 2018-28, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Or it was; the report was released months before the coronavirus pandemic caused widespread job losses. read more >
Telemedicine Tipping Point Seen as Virus Alters Care
COVID-19 has turned the world upside down, but it is also ushering telemedicine into widespread acceptance in Arkansas. read more >
Banks: Got Collateral? Maybe Not (Jake Fair Commentary)
Collateral is important for all financial institutions and a recent Arkansas Court of Appeals decision should be setting off alarm bells at financial institutions across the state of Arkansas. read more >
Arkansas Business Presents 2020 40 Under 40 Honorees
Arkansas Business announces the 40 honorees in this year's 40 Under 40 class, which honors people in business, nonprofits and government making a significant impact. read more >
Pulaski County's Most Expensive Home Sales of 2019
Last year, 32 luxury homes in Pulaski County sold for $1 million or more, up from 30 in 2018. read more >
Northwest Arkansas' Most Expensive Home Sales of 2019
The same Fayetteville house was the most expensive home sold in northwest Arkansas in 2019 and in 2018. read more >
Petit Jean Electric Calls for Recusal of Ted Thomas
An unusual dustup between Petit Jean Electric Cooperative Corp. and Ted Thomas, chairman of the Arkansas Public Service Commission, has added complications to an expected ruling on solar compensation. read more >
Side Effects Of Pandemic? Legal Action
As the novel coronavirus continues to wreak havoc on people and the economy, attorneys are bracing for a flood of lawsuits in its wake. read more >
Dover Dixon Horne Adds Ogles (Movers & Shakers)
William J. Ogles has joined Dover Dixon Horne’s growing litigation and family law practices in Little Rock. read more >
Hot Springs Dispensary Leads in Cannabis Sales
The early bird may get the worm, but being the first legal medical marijuana dispensary to open in Arkansas was not enough to keep Suite 443 of Hot Springs ahead of the rush of competitors. read more >
A Woman's Place: Cannabis Industry Promotes Female Ownership
Feminine hands are everywhere in the medical marijuana and hemp industries, up and running in the state for less than a year. Their roles range from co-owning $10 million cultivation centers to staffing dispensary counters as budtenders. read more >
Prospect of Full Marijuana Legalization Stirs Passions
Both the supporters and the opponents of legalizing recreational marijuana in Arkansas say they’re thinking of the children. read more >
U.S. Cannabis Market Sales Reach $13.6B
Overall sales in the legalized cannabis industry in the United States were expected to hit $13.6 billion in 2019, a 32% increase of the 2018 total of $10.3 billion, according to New Frontier Data of Washington, D.C., a data provider for the cannabis sector. read more >
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