‘Foreign liquor loophole’ costing U.S., small craft distillersI've spent much of my career building and acquiring businesses because I love the process. I'm an entrepreneur at heart. Growing an idea into a viable operation that creates products people enjoy and employs workers is what drives me. The businesses in my portfolio are varied, and every time I enter a new industry I get the chance to see what works and…Arkansas Online1d agoWhole story →SecurityEconomyforeign liquor tax loophole
Zuckerberg makes deal to pay proposed tax billSACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Mark Zuckerberg made a deal with Meta's board to help him pay a proposed California tax on billionaires without losing his ownership stake in the company he founded, according to regulatory filings published this week.Arkansas Online1d agoWhole story →HealthEconomycalifornia billionaire tax proposal
FEMA awards $1.1 million to Izard County for 2025 storms, plus $539,000 to Arkansas for 2024 floodingArkansas and Izard County will receive a total of $1.6 million in federal funding for repairs to a bridge and to fund mitigation planning following severe weather events in 2025 and 2024, a news release from the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Thursday.Arkansas Online1d agoWhole story →SecurityPlanetfema funding announcement
Sharp County official warns that end of FEMA aid will devastate communities’ ability to rebuild after disastersAfter roughly four years as director of Sharp County’s department of emergency management, Kanyon Matheny says he knows the value of the Federal Emergency Management Agency during a crisis.Arkansas Online3d agoWhole story →SecurityJusticefema disaster response policy change
Usha Vance, Gov. Sanders visit North Little Rock elementary schoolUsha Vance, the wife of Vice President JD Vance, and Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders visited North Little Rock's Glenview Elementary and recognized teachers at the Governor's Mansion as Sanders and state officials marked their statewide education initiatives on Tuesday.Arkansas Online4d agoWhole story →EducationSarah Huckabee Sanders
Parents allege Fayetteville School District violated federal disability laws in its treatment of elementary studentFAYETTEVILLE -- The School District discriminated against a disabled student and broke numerous state and federal laws in the process, with one administrator trying to purge the proof, the student's parents argued in a court filing Friday.Arkansas Online4d agoWhole story →EducationJusticedisability rights lawsuit
Trump campaigns for GOP in GeorgiaDALTON, Ga. -- President Donald Trump has spent the closing stretch of the midterm campaign barnstorming deep-red parts of the country, trying to mobilize voters already inclined to support him.Arkansas Online7d agoWhole story →GovernmentEconomyDonald Trumpmidterm elections
COLUMNIST: The U.S.’ sign of weakness in UkraineLast week, President Donald Trump shocked the world by easing sanctions on Russia to allow the sale of Russian diesel fuel to the United States and global markets. He boasted that his action would dramatically reduce the price of diesel fuel for Americans and the rest of the world.Arkansas Online7d agoWhole story →SecurityEconomyDonald Trumprussia sanctions easing
Arkansas legends Clinton, Jones draw record crowd at Simmons Bank ArenaThe Little Rock Touchdown Club hosted a pair of legendary Arkansans, former President Bill Clinton and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, on Monday in front of an estimated 3,000 people at Simmons Bank Arena in North Little Rock.Arkansas Online11d agoWhole story →Economy
Judge orders end to ads paid for with tax dollarsNEW YORK -- President Donald Trump must cancel any remaining television commercials paid for with millions of dollars in taxpayer money to promote his political message, a federal judge ordered Sunday night, even as the administration said the ad campaign was coming to an end.Arkansas Online12d agoWhole story →GovernmentEconomytaxpayer ad campaign ruling
Dozens of Navy training planes arrive in Little Rock, leaving Florida before Hurricane IsaiasA fleet of U.S. Navy aircraft was moved to Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport/Adams Field from a Navy base in Florida ahead of a hurricane expected to hit the Sunshine State this weekend, an airport spokesman said.Arkansas Online15d agoWhole story →SecurityPlanethurricane isaias evacuation
Central Arkansas Library System chief says officials struggling with ‘impossible to understand’ parts of 2023 lawOfficials at the Central Arkansas Library System remain in an uncertain place as they await clarification from a federal appeals court about a ruling that upheld a law related to library materials, the library system's executive director said Friday.Arkansas Online15d agoWhole story →EducationJusticelibrary materials law ruling
Senators urge swift action on sanctionsWASHINGTON -- Nearly a month after President Donald Trump signed a sweeping Russian sanctions bill named after Lindsey Graham into law, bipartisan leadership in the Senate is urging the administration to clamp down more quickly on the flow of financial resources fueling the war against Ukraine.Arkansas Online16d agoWhole story →SecurityEconomyLindsey Grahamrussian sanctions implementation
Arkansas Tech University takes steps to continue child care program after federal grant discontinuedRUSSELLVILLE -- Arkansas Tech University officials announced Tuesday they have taken steps to continue a child care program through the end of the fall 2026 semester that was previously funded by a federal grant.Arkansas Online18d agoWhole story →EducationJusticeccampis funding loss
GOP tax cuts have little effect on campaign trailORO VALLEY, Ariz. -- Republicans in Congress had hoped the major tax-and-spending-cut bill they muscled into law last year would redeem them on the campaign trail as they try to beat historical odds to keep their majorities in November's midterm elections.Arkansas Online19d agoWhole story →HealthCulturemidterm elections
Midterms to test Trump’s support in working classWASHINGTON -- The midterm elections are a test for the working-class coalition that lifted Trump into the White House and gave majorities to Republicans in the House and Senate. The outcome will be decided in places like Dayton, Ohio, which once sprouted factories but shed about half of its 90,000 factory jobs since 1990 after the North American Free…Arkansas Online20d agoWhole story →GovernmentEconomymidterm elections
Families of Arkansans with disabilities testify to state lawmakers about waitlist for in-home aidFamilies of disabled Arkansans waitlisted for critical in-home services testified alongside officials from the state Department of Human Services at a legislative hearing Friday, expressing very different opinions on how the Community and Employment Support Waiver program is working.Arkansas Online22d agoWhole story →HealthEconomyarkansas ces waiver hearing
Federal judge ends desegregation order for south Arkansas’ Camden Fairview, Harmony Grove school districtsA decades-old federal court settlement restricting the transfer of white students from one south Arkansas school district to a neighboring school district is no longer in effect.Arkansas Online22d agoWhole story →EducationJusticedesegregation order ended
Investigation concludes that Union Pacific broke law when it fired North Little Rock employeeThe Union Pacific Railroad Co. breached the Federal Railroad Safety Act when it fired a North Little Rock yardman who notified management of nearby lightning and federal safety standards, a U.S. Department of Labor whistleblower investigation discovered.Arkansas Online22d agoWhole story →EconomyBuild
Fed watchdog says bank mismanaged renovationWASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve's internal watchdog said Wednesday that the central bank has broadly mismanaged an expansive building renovation project but did not find any criminal violations, as claimed by Trump administration prosecutors.Arkansas Online23d agoWhole story →Economyfed building renovation scandal
