Talking Social Media and Business at Commerce Arkansas Nov. 3

About 900 folks came out to Commerce Arkansas last year, a business expo at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock put on by Arkansas Business and the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce. This year, we’re doing it again on Nov. 3, and we’ve got a great lineup of speakers [...]

Lottery Execs Hit the JackPot & A Cautionary Tale in Arkansas Business This Week

We’re back in business. Here’s the latest from the Monday print edition of Arkansas Business:
Remember those phat lottery salaries everybody was so riled up about for about five minutes a few months ago? They’re big enough to put a few lottery workers among the “jocks and docs” on our annual list of highest-paid Arkansas state [...]

‘When Wal-Mart Leaves’ in This Week’s Arkansas Business

Labor Day’s over. Time to get back to work. This week’s Arkansas Business and Northwest Arkansas Business Journal are available now. Among the highlights:
Wal-Mart closed its only store in Brinkley in May. What followed goes against conventional wisdom, as city sales taxes rose, local stores added more merchandise and two other retail chains announces plans [...]

Alltel — er, Verizon Arena, 10 Years Later, In This Week’s Arkansas Business

This week’s Arkansas Business is online now. Among the highlights:
Alltel Arena Verizon Arena marks its 10th anniversary next month and everyone from its general manager to those who helped build it consider it an unqualified success. What began with talk of cracked raker beams and postponed events and become an all-purpose facility operating happily in [...]

The FTC to Hold Hold Workshops on Journalism in the Internet Age

First, there was John Kerry’s Congressional subcommittee hearing on “the Future of Journalism.” And now, the Federal Trade Commission is set to hold two days of workshops in December on journalism and its survival in the Internet age:
Though some may be uncomfortable with government oversight of any aspect of journalism, the F.T.C. seems to be [...]

Another Look at Health Care and the Lottery in Arkansas in This Week’s Arkansas Business

This week’s Arkansas Business is out and live on the Web. Among this week’s stories:
Editor Gwen Moritz has been reading the blogs, and this week she offers another view of health care after reading Cory Allen Cox’s essay on his late sister’s experience with the system over at The Arkansas Project.
Jamie Walden takes a look [...]

Tune In: I’ll Be a Guest on Arkansas Sunday Edition This Weekend

UPDATE: We’re off the air. It was a fun show! Congrats to Blake on his radio debut, and my thanks for inviting me to come on. Along with RJ Hawk, Jessica Dean and David Kinkade, we talked health care, Blanche Lincoln, GOP candidates for U.S. Senate and Bob Dylan. We even got a call from [...]

The Latest Inc. Tanc Survey, Heifer International’s Future & More in This Week’s Arkansas Business

It’s Monday and time to check out the latest edition of Arkansas Business, available now. Among the highlights:
Arkansas Business and Mangan Holcomb Partners continue their Inc. Tanc series of surveys, polling more than 800 local business leaders and finding, among other things, that

more than half have not or do not expect to benefit from the [...]

Ernie Passailaigue’s South Carolina Days, the ‘Moritz Scale’ and More in This Week’s Arkansas Business

It’s Monday. On the bright side, there’s the new Arkansas Business. In this week’s edition:
Mark Hengel investigates Ernie Passailaigue’s time as head of the South Carolina. Let’s see: There was an FOI lawsuit, a conflict over a $7.5 million advertising contract, and allegations that Passailaigue, a former South Carolina state senator, benefited from cronyism. Otherwise, [...]

Smartphone Etiquette and Entrepreneurship in This Week’s Arkansas Business

Let’s peruse the latest Arkansas Business newspaper, online and on newsstands now!
Smartphones are everywhere. And they’re addicting! Mark Friedman reports that businesses are struggling about the new etiquette developing (or not developing) around these devices. Are the kids tweeting every word of your presentation because it’s great? Or are they playing Paper Toss? Meanwhile: New [...]