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Vote-year donations now a cost of business
LITTLE ROCK — As campaign season rolls around, Republican and Democrats are getting out their checkbooks to make donations to their favorite candidates — and so are corporations. Continue reading...
Windpower to lay off 234 at LR facility
LM Windpower will lay off more than half of its Little Rock work force within the next few months, as windenergy companies await the fate of a tax credit that’s essential to the industry. Continue reading...
Some in state to get rebates from insurers
Health-care-law provision means refunds for 115,461
LITTLE ROCK — Thousands of Arkansans will split $7.8 million in health-insurance premium rebates, thanks to a provision in the nation’s new healthcare law. Continue reading...
Acxiom 1st-quarter profit up
Data-marketing firm posts net income of $13.3 million
LITTLE ROCK — With a chief executive officer just completing his first year in the post, Acxiom Corp. generated higher net income in the first quarter of fiscal 2013, the data marketing company said Monday. Continue reading...
Fort Smith employing automation
Companies’ robots hard at work every day
FORT SMITH — Inside the numerous manufacturing plants across Fort Smith, bright yellow and orange robots are hard at work, doing mundane and sometimes dangerous tasks that their human counterparts no longer want to do. Continue reading...
Wal-Mart taking heat over hogs
Animal-welfare group calls suppliers’ methods inhumane
LITTLE ROCK — An animal-welfare group is criticizing Wal-Mart Stores Inc. because it hasn’t joined other retailers making a commitment to end its relationship with pork suppliers that the group says are inhumane in its treatment of animals. Continue reading...
Officials: State job booster limping
More funds called key for tech sector
LITTLE ROCK — A fund designed to inject high-paying, technologybased jobs into the state needs more funding to succeed, some officials say. Continue reading...
Demand rising for pictures of birth
Arkansans slowly warming to service, photographers say
LITTLE ROCK — When Megan Henry of Hot Springs had her first baby, she relied on family members to document the experience. But last year, she, along with a growing number of women, upgraded to a professional photographer. Continue reading...
Novaculite runs in Hot Springs’ veins
Business for Arkansas stone fades, but companies adapt
LITTLE ROCK — Hundreds of years ago, in the mountains of Hot Springs, American Indians created sharp arrowheads and tools. In more recent times, companies have created whetstones and abrasives from the same material. Continue reading...
Program rewards savers of electricity
LITTLE ROCK — Summer Advantage, a voluntary program of Entergy Arkansas designed to reward customers for saving electricity, has attracted 548 customers since its start June 1. The company hopes to continue to sign up customers. Continue reading...
