Fayetteville is among the finalists to host the world’s premier endurance tests: the IRONMAN Triathlon. Officials with IRONMAN recently announced that Fayetteville will join Memphis, Des Moines and Tulsa as possible locations for the 2020 event. Officials will be visiting the four central United...
Job training and workforce education are offered by numerous government entities in Arkansas. That’s part of the problem. Overlap and duplication create confusion for people who want to improve their job skills, and they are inefficient uses of tax dollars. With that in mind, legislators...
CARTI Cancer Center has added a new radiation oncologist to its staff. Jonathan Pagan, M.D., M.S., has joined CARTI and is now accepting patients at the center’s facilities, located at 8901 CARTI Way in Little Rock. Most recently, Pagan served as a radiation oncologist at Carson-Tahoe Radiation...
J.B. Hunt Transport Services unveiled this week a new trailer pool and drop-and-hook service called J.B. Hunt 360box which will be launched this summer. The company said the service will introduce a pool of 500 additional 53-foot trailers that businesses can reserve for drop-trailer purposes. It...
Northwest Arkansas innovators and entrepreneurs will have a chance to pitch their ideas and take home some cold hard cash at the IdeaFame Live Pitch Contest on June 18. IdeaFame is a community event designed to promote bright ideas and increase creative collisions in emerging entrepreneurial...
Startups looking for help with marketing and sales will have the chance to benefit from a new accelerator launching this summer. HubSpot for Startups and General Catalyst are co-launching ELEVATE: The Growth Accelerator – a free, online, light-weight accelerator designed to help thousands of...
This week, I’d like to highlight the work of some companies that are finding innovative ways to conduct their business and to protect the environment at the same time. This is timely because this week the Department of Environmental Quality handed out its annual environmental awards to companies...
The University of Arkansas at Monticello (UAM) has received a landmark $1.5 million donation that will provide scholarship for nursing students. This donation – an estate gift provided by Raylene Steelman – is the second largest gift in UAM’s history. The largest, announced in fall 2018, was...
The Division of Youth Services (DYS) has already begun to make sweeping changes in how the state treats juvenile offenders. The Division announced that the first day of May marked the beginning of a new approach for meeting the needs of youthful offenders. The new changes mean that a team of staff...
Torchy’s Tacos will soon open their first Arkansas restaurant on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in Fayetteville. The Texas-based taco shop’s website cites the new location will be at 1561 W MLK Blvd., beside Andy’s Frozen Custard. The company recently received state health...