LT, On Your TV and Radio Dials This Weekend

No rest for the narcissistic! Not content with the Internet, we’re also on the airwaves this weekend, aiming for Paris Hilton levels of overexposure. To wit:
Arkansas Week, 8:30 p.m. Friday, AETN – Catch myself, host Steve Barnes and Hoyt Purvis of the University of Arkansas as we tag-n-bag the week in business and politics. Tonight’s [...]

The Return of the Friday Week In Review

It’s Friday! It’s time to get back down to business and take a look back at the week that was, when we so much younger, more innocent, so full of life. So without further ado:
Speaker of the House Robbie Wills packed his bags for Taiwan. But not before enjoying a tasty lunch at Copper Grill [...]

It’s the Jeff Hankins Show Tonight on ‘Arkansas Week’

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Arkansas Business Publisher Jeff Hankins is filling for Steve Barnes tonight as host of AETN’s “Arkansas Week.” This week’s guest: Max Brantley of the Arkansas Times, Rick Fahr of The Log Cabin Democrat and David Keith of the University of Central Arkansas‘ Journalism Department.
There’s should be lots to talk about this [...]

The Swepco Plant, the Economy, Lu Hardin and the Lottery on ‘Arkansas Week’

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Tonight’s “Arkansas Week” on AETN features me, David Sanders of Stephens Media and Rick Fahr of the Log Cabin Democrat, along with host Steve Barnes. On the docket tonight: Swepco’s plan to appeal a ruling that revoked the company’s permit to build a $1.6 billion coal-fueled power plant near Fulton in [...]

Hankins, Back at the Table, Tonight on ‘Arkansas Week’

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Arkansas Business President and Publisher Jeff Hankins is back at the table on tonight’s “Arkansas Week,” hosted by Steve Barnes on AETN. Who are the other panelists? We don’t know! Mainly because we can’t seem to talk to Hankins about anything besides the new iPhone 3GS, which is desperately been trying [...]

Moritz, Keith and Thompson on ‘Arkansas Week’ Tonight

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Arkansas Business Editor Gwen Moritz takes her turn at the table on tonight’s “Arkansas Week,” hosted by Steve Barnes on AETN. Also on the panel, David Keith of the University of Central Arkansas communications department and Doug Thompson of Stephens Media Group.
Tops among the agenda tonight: UCA’s offer to Dr. Allen [...]

Wal-Mart’s Annual Meeting, the Lottery Director, Unemployment & More on ‘Arkansas Week’

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It’s been one thing after another, but this week I was finally able to record another appearance on AETN’s “Arkansas Week,” which you can catch at 8 p.m. tonight on your local Arkansas PBS station.
Host Steve Barnes, Rick Fahr of the Log Cabin Democrat in Conway and myself talk about today’s [...]

Back in Business

After a week and a couple of days off 1) being sick and 2) doing chores around the house, I’m back at work, trying hard to get caught up. And let me just say first that e-mail is ridiculous and should be banned.
Anyway, thanks for sticking around for limited postings last week. And thanks to [...]

Hankins, Keith and Fahr on ‘Arkansas Week’

Tonight, Arkansas Business President and Publisher Jeff Hankins, Rick Fahr of the Log Cabin Democrat in Conway and David Keith of the University of Central Arkansas join Steve Barnes on AETN’s “Arkansas Week” to review The Week That Was.
Judging by tonight’s show synopsis, Barnes takes the high road on the “tea party” jokes, where others [...]

The (Revised) State Budget and More on ‘Arkansas Week’

The end is near! The end of the session, that is. With the lottery now official and the grocery tax in the books, the bigger issues of the 87th General Assembly have been tucked away. But there’s one lingering piece of big business.
The state budget! Small detail.
On this week’s “Arkansas Week,” we talk about the [...]