I had the honor recently of being asked by my friends at the Southern Foodways Alliance on the Ole Miss campus to write the introduction for the Arkansas section of the SFA’s Southern BBQ Trail. You already can find oral histories from Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. Oral histories currently are being collected [...]

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I wrote last night about Rep. Mike Ross’ break with 39 Blue Dog Democrats to vote to adjourn without taking up the issue of extending the tax cuts, which he insists he is in favor of passing.  His Republican opponent Beth Anne Rankin spoke about this vote last night at a townhall in Texarkana. “Wednesday, Mike [...]

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WASHINGTON — Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport Director Kelly Johnson told a congressional panel that nearly $9.5 million in federal stimulus funds the airport received last year prevented a potential costly shutdown of the airport.

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WASHINGTON — Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport Director Kelly Johnson told a congressional panel Wednesday that nearly $9.5 million in federal stimulus funds the airport received last year prevent

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LITTLE ROCK – Homes sales in Arkansas were nearly 15 percent lower in August than the same month a year ago, the Arkansas Realtors Association reported Tuesday.

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OG&E on Tuesday filed an application asking the Arkansas Public Service Commission to approve a rate increase of $17.7 million.

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Fort Smith Regional Airport hopes to save at least $250,000 and perhaps much more with a measure approved Tuesday by the Airport Commission.

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Just nine months after opening for business, the Phoenix Expo Trade & Event Center has evolved into a serious competitor for conferences, expositions and parties that once might have gone to t

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Bring up the subject of life insurance in a small gathering, and observe how some of the participants will quietly migrate to another part of the room. We normally do not want to talk about life insur

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LITTLE ROCK – Airplane manufacturer Hawker Beechcraft plans to cut hundreds more jobs worldwide.

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