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 >
Anna Tucker Ashton, senior director of government affairs at the U.S.-China Business Council, spoke to Arkansas Business on Friday about the trade war and its effects here. read more >
The economy is the top concern for Arkansans, and most support gun licensing and background checks for gun purchases, according to the 21st annual Arkansas Poll released Wednesday by the University of Arkansas. read more >
Arkansas’ elected officials know President Donald Trump’s trade war with China is hurting the state. They just don’t appear to know exactly what to do about it. read more >
The U.S.-China trade war is being fought in the forests and mill towns of Arkansas as tariffs take their toll on the hardwood lumber industry. So far, state lumbermen say, they’ve been able to absorb most of the losses, but a day of reckoning is coming. read more >
Success, especially financial success, seems to embolden some men. read more >
The U.S. economy was expanding at a modest pace in September and into October despite the fact manufacturing was being hurt by rising trade tensions and weaker global growth while adverse weather was affecting farmers. read more >
The leadership gap left by our elected officials is being filled increasingly by leaders in the private sector read more >
With the nation's unemployment rate at its lowest point since the 1960s, you might expect the Federal Reserve to be raising interest rates to keep the economy from overheating. Yet the Fed is moving in precisely the opposite direction. read more >
The winds are blowing fair for America's wind power industry, making it one of the fastest-growing U.S. energy sources. But there's an issue. President Donald Trump hates wind turbines. read more >
Will Gov. Asa Hutchinson's upcoming visit to China a wise use of resources, or is the governor perhaps captive to a nostalgia for a time when the Oval Office wasn’t occupied by a man devoted to protectionist policies? read more >
The idea of Americans scrolling through hospital websites to find the best deal on a mammogram or tonsillectomy sounds good to almost everybody. But the devil is in the details, and when federal plans emerged to force hospitals and insurers to reveal their negotiated rates for all kinds of medical services, the pitchforks came out. read more >
The Trump administration has issued a rule that will make overtime pay available to 1.3 million additional workers, though the proposal replaces a more generous one advanced by former President Barack Obama. read more >
One of our mottoes is “Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.” Apparently, whether he knows it or not, it’s one of Congressman Bruce Westerman’s too. read more >
Americans are commemorating 9/11 with mournful ceremonies, volunteering, appeals to "never forget" and rising attention to the terror attacks' extended toll on responders. read more >
Before being elected president, Donald Trump had never worked for anyone but himself or his ultra-wealthy father. That doesn’t explain why he feels so comfortable saying things that are demonstrably untrue, but it could explain why he never had to learn how to own a mistake. read more >
Billions of dollars in government aid to farmers may soften these initial blows, but the longer that the U.S.-China trade war continues, the greater will be the damage to American agriculture — and Arkansas farmers. read more >
President Donald Trump is not letting up on his attacks on the Federal Reserve, calling for "substantial" Fed rate cuts to allow the dollar to fall in value against foreign currencies. read more >
What’s the matter with me? President Trump commuted the sentence of a man who used religion and bribes for personal gain, and my outrage meter barely registered. read more >
To be blind to color is to be blind to the reason for so much injustice. We have got to talk and we have got to listen. read more >
