Bloomberg Businessweek has in-depth story on the business strategy behind radio media giant, Cumulus. At the center is the new relationship between former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee — now daily talk show host — and Lew Dickey, co-founder and CEO of Cumulus Media. Dickey and Huckabee struck up a friendship on an airplane flight from Atlanta to [...]

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Home sales in Arkansas’ four largest metropolitan regions tumbled 9% during April versus the previous year. Compared to 2010, April home sales dropped a whopping 30%. Still, the one-month drop hasn’t wiped out year-long gains, although it shrunk them considerably. According to The City Wire’s Arkansas Home Sales Report, there were 1,455 homes sold during April in [...]

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Last Friday, the anti-tax group, Americans for Tax Reform, sent out a press release criticizing Republican Congressional candidate Beth Anne Rankin for not signing their Federal Taxpayer Protection Pledge.  Today, Rankin disputed the criticism saying she signed their pledge in 2010 and her position has not changed. “The voters in Arkansas have a right to know [...]

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A combined $1 million gift from Walmart and the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation will fund the renovation and expansion of the current Sam M. Walton College of Business display, honoring Walmart’s founder, Sam Walton. Each organization donated $500,000 to update the display in the Business Administration Building on the University of Arkansas campus. “These generous gifts [...]

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This year, Arkansans have seen concerted efforts to dissuade voters from signing petitions for potential initiated acts and constitutional amendments. The two highest profile groups have made efforts to educate voters on the negatives tied to a casino proposal and Sheffield Nelson’s push for an increase in the severance tax. Proposal supporters have cried foul at [...]

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The primary season is almost over, but there are still some sparks flying in several races. Here in central Arkansas, the State Senate primary between Rep. David Sanders and Rep. Ed Garner is heating up coming down the stretch.  There is lots of action in this one. The other day, I wrote about Rapert’s endorsement of Sanders, [...]

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Arkansas maintained its status as one of the top 10 largest marketers of natural gas in the U.S., but cheap wellhead prices and the industry’s switch to oil-rich shale plays could slow the state’s production in 2012, according to annual data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Still, preliminary EIA data from 2011 shows that [...]

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Editor’s Note: Talk Business begins a new feature on our blogs called “The Weekend Digest,” a compilation of interesting feature stories, analyses and recommended reading from a variety of outside Arkansas sources for our business and political readers. The intent is to provide readers with a wide-ranging look at events happening in other states, developing [...]

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Editor’s Note: Talk Business begins a new feature on our blogs called “The Weekend Digest,” a compilation of interesting feature stories, analyses and recommended reading from a variety of outside Arkansas sources for our business and political readers. The intent is to provide readers with a wide-ranging look at events happening in other states, developing [...]

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Sheffield Nelson, who is pushing for an increase in Arkansas’ natural gas severance tax rate, says that opponents of his measure have nothing to support their claims that jobs could be lost. “They keep throwing out figures with nothing to back them,” Nelson said in a Friday press conference. Last week, the Conway Chamber of Commerce unveiled [...]

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