From education, to health care, to the lottery, legislators will have a full agenda.
As 2008 winds down, Arkansas Business is taking a look back at some of the biggest deals of the year and the people you need to be watching in 2009.
Arkansans went to the polls last month and approved a constitutional amendment allowing a state-run lottery to benefit college scholarships. Now, Arkansas lawmakers are getting ready to craft how that lottery will operate, and they're looking to other states for ideas.
The internet has made everything easier.
You can shop online, re-connect with friends, and find just about everything. These days more and more people are using the internet to help in their search for a job.
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Rush Harding talks with Arkansas Business about the future of the University of Central Arkansas and the controversy surrounding the school's former president, Lu Hardin.
The same developers who brought in the courtyard by Marriot Hotel in the First Security Building would now like to build an aloft hotel at the southeast corner of Clinton Avenue and Commerce Street.
In today's Arkansas Business on Today's THV, Jennings Osborne is pursuing a lawsuit and how to cut back on your excess spending.
For more Arkansas economic and business news, Arkansas Business publisher Jeff Hankins stops by the THV Information Center.
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Arkansas Business and Today's THV look at the economy, the upcoming election, and the Verizon Wireless/ Alltel buyout.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. says it will open fewer supercenters next year and in 2010 and will trim its capital spending budget.
Little Rock based Dillard's has been working to improve sales at its department stores. But now some shareholders are asking for even more change.
Sure the headlines are bad, but what does it mean to the average Arkansan?
Spirits have sunk along with the stock market as the financial sector has experienced historic upheaval in recent months. And that less optimistic outlook is reflected in the latest survey of business professionals by Arkansas Business.
Jeff Hankins with Arkansas Business stops by the THV Information Center to talk about insurance. The number of insurance fraud claims reported to the Arkansas Department of Insurance has indeed gone up recently.
Arkansas Business this week ranks the largest hospitals in the state based on patient revenue.
It was double dip of Lance Turner on THV THis Morning as he covered his usual beat of financial and business news.
The impact of the failure of the financial bailout is still being sorted out.
Trouble in the mortgage and credit markets is affecting all parts of the economy, including the market for high-end condominiums in Little Rock.
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