The Influencers: Tom Schueck of Lexicon Inc.
After building Schueck Steel into a family of companies under the Lexicon corporate banner, Tom Schueck has developed a secondary career of sorts. read more >
After building Schueck Steel into a family of companies under the Lexicon corporate banner, Tom Schueck has developed a secondary career of sorts. read more >
A law allowing the Arkansas Highway Commission to raise the highway speed limit to 75 mph went into effect Aug. 1, but the actual raising of any speed limits will have to wait until the Department of Transportation and its engineers complete an updated traffic study. read more >
Scott Bennett, director of the Arkansas Highway & Transportation Department, says the state needs to double its current annual funding of $400 million to properly take care of its transportation needs. read more >
The Arkansas Highway Commission has decided to seek a ballot measure to increase money for state roads next year after lawmakers refused to send voters a proposal that would have raised $200 million a year. read more >
An effort to raise millions for Arkansas' underfunded highways failed in the Legislature this year after facing heavy opposition from conservatives. Now the panel overseeing the state's highways has to decide whether to try putting a road funding program before voters next year. read more >
Philip Taldo is a Springdale man through and through so it shouldn’t have surprised anyone he took the Arkansas Highway Commission oath of office in a downtown barbershop. read more >
A much-needed increase in annual highway funding is a problem. It’s a problem because the needs are so great, and the options for attainable, incremental funding are limited. In order to achieve the increases necessary to benefit all Arkansans, public involvement is needed in the development of new public policy leading to increased funding. read more >
The Arkansas Highway Commission has approved bids on multiple projects in the state, including a $16 million plan to widen U.S. 167 in northeast Arkansas. read more >
Arkansas Highway Commission accepts the $98.4 million bid from Massman Construction Co. of Kansas City, Missouri, to replace the Broadway Bridge over the Arkansas River between Little Rock and North Little Rock. read more >
The Arkansas Highway Commission has awarded a $6.1 million bid to a Michigan company for installation of a cable barrier along 42 miles of Interstate 40. read more >
Gov. Mike Beebe has named former Arkansas House Speaker Robert Moore to a 10-year term on the Arkansas Highway Commission. Moore, 68 and a Democrat from Arkansas City, replaces commission Chairman R. Madison Murphy, whose 10-year term is expiring. read more >
The recent voter approval of short-term highway projects in Arkansas is building roads that will lead to more jobs, a better economy and consumer benefits, including reduced cost for the transportation of goods and services, making for more predictable pricing at retail. read more >
Southern Pavers, Inc., founded by Randy McNulty, was a general highway contractor specializing in bridges, and in particular, rehabilitation and stage construction of structures over and on the interstate highways. His company completed many of the bridges between Little Rock and Benton in connection with the rebuilding of Interstate 30. read more >
