Monument Circle, Downtown Indianapolis

Also Friday: Drink’s at Don Shula’s at the hotel Dinner at St. Elmo’s downtown A trip to Luna Music for vinyl, CDs

Greetings From the Road

Greetings from the road! We’re traveling today to sunny Indianapolis for the annual summer conference of the Alliance of Area Business Publications. Once again, we expect this meeting of editors and publishers to focus heavily on the Internet, including reporting for it, staffing it and selling it. As niche publications, business newspapers and magazines enjoy [...]

Rolling Stone, the McChrystal Story and the Web

For the first time in maybe a generation, Rolling Stone has published a series of relevant, well-reported news stories and gripping analysis pieces. Matt Taibbi’s searing series on the Wall Street bailout and Goldman Sachs comes to mind, as well as Tim Dickinson’s recent report on the Obama administration and the BP oil spill. And [...]

Campaigns Jump on the Mobile App Bandwagon

Mobile apps! Everybody’s got one, most likely including your local politico seeking higher office. The Associated Press drops this feature today on “iCampaigning,” where already incessantly social candidates — not content with Twitter, Facebook, blogs, Flickr, YouTube and more — are creating their own iPhone and Android applications to pester you with even more talking [...]

This Week in Arkansas Business: Education Department to Seek More Scholarship Money

This week in Arkansas Business: At the rate Arkansas is awarding college scholarships, money in the Arkansas Department of Higher Education’s reserve fund will run out by 2013. So director Jim Purcell says he’ll ask the Legislature this January to provide more money for scholarships or allow the department to cut the number awarded. Meanwhile, the DHE [...]

Happy Father’s Day

Goodbye Glenmere

It’s been 6 years, but now it’s time to move on. We’ve sold our house on Glenmere in Lakewood. Where to now? Good question! We sold it in less then a month — closed on the sale two weeks from when we got an offer. So Laura and I are just a little shell-shocked. We’ve [...]

#ARElections: It’s Over! For Now

Blanche Lincoln rebuffs a strong challenge from Bill Halter in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, Joyce Elliott wins big in Pulaski County to defeat Speaker of the House Robbie Wills in the primary for 2nd District Congress, Steve Womack’s votes come in from Benton County to give him a victory over Cecile Bledsoe in [...]

#ARElections: Let’s Try This Again, Shall We? Join Us for Coverage on Today’s THV Tonight

It’s deja vu all over again! Once again, Arkansas Business Publisher Jeff Hankins and I will be on Today’s THV tonight, part of the CBS affiliate’s local election coverage. You can catch coverage during the 5, 6 and 6:30 p.m. newscasts, the latter featuring a segment with Hankins. We’ll both be aboard starting at 9 [...]