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 [...]

New CEO at PAM and Testing the Pay Model in Pine Bluff in This Week’s Arkansas Business

It’s Monday already. And that means a new edition of Arkansas Business newspaper, available now. Among the highlights:
Stephens Media will test a locked down model for online news with its Pine Bluff Commercial, Stephens President Sherman Frederick says. He says ArkansasNews.com, which aggregates news from the Stephens papers in Arkansas, might also go behind the [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

New UCA President Allen Meadors in This Week’s Arkansas Business

This week’s Arkansas Business newspaper is available now. Among the highlights:
On his second day on the job, new University of Central Arkansas President Allen C. Meadors talks to Jan Cottingham about goals for UCA, his management style and challenges he’ll face.
Arkansas’ accountants hail an industry rule change as the most significant in 15 years.
More former [...]

Remembering Andree Roaf, A Surprise at KLRT & Dillard’s In This Week’s Arkansas Business

Hope your Fourth was a good one. Now it’s back to business. The new Arkansas Business is out now. Among the highlights:
Gwen Moritz on Andree Roaf, the former Arkansas Supreme Court judge who died last week, and “the triumph of law.”
Mark Friedman examines derivative lawsuits and Dillard’s, which has face two of them since May [...]

Local TV Ratings, Million-dollar Homes in This Week’s Arkansas Business

Arkansas Business’ new edition is available now in newsstands and online. Here’s a sample of this week’s stories and opinion:
Who pays $1 million (plus) for a home? We’ve got a list of Pulaski County homes that sold for more than $1 million right here.
Meanwhile, condo sales at 300 Third in Little Rock surpass $41 million. [...]

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 [...]

KARN’s Ratings Boost, Newspapers Woes and Gene Cauley in This Week’s Arkansas Business

This week’s Arkansas Business is online now. Among the stories in the June 8 edition:
KARN’s Dave Elswick claims an Obama bump in the latest Arbitron ratings survey, with the conservative talk channel perfoming well in light of a Democratic president who lost in Arkansas.
Arkansas’ newspapers saw advertising revenue declines of between 30 and 40 [...]

Tough Times for Auto Dealers in This Week’s Arkansas Business

Happy Memorial Day! This week’s edition of Arkansas Business is online now. Among the highlights:
George Waldon takes a look at the state’s beleagered auto dealers, who were already facing tough times before Chrysler and GM started pruning dealerships, including several in Arkansas. Includes a list of recent closings.
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