‘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
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
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
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
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
Trump says S. Korea to invest $54B in AlaskaWASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday plans for South Korea to invest roughly $54 billion to export natural gas from Alaska, a project long backed by Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, who's in a competitive reelection contest there.Arkansas Online23d agoWhole story →PlanetEconomyDan Sullivanalaska natural gas investment
Entergy receives $13.7M in federal funds for power grid upgradesThe U.S. Energy Department is awarding Entergy Corp. $13.7 million in federal funding to improve power delivery across the utility's service territory.Arkansas Online24d agoWhole story →Planetpower grid upgrade funding
Sanders issues order allowing use of dyed diesel on highwaysCiting the high cost of diesel fuel, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders issued an order allowing red-dyed diesel to be used on state highways for agricultural purposes through late October.Arkansas Online24d agoWhole story →FoodEconomySarah Huckabee Sandersdiesel fuel tax exemption order
STAR PARKER: Attempts to slow AI and other overreactionsI'm far from understanding chatbots, chips and AI technology, but I've worked in D.C. long enough to be suspicious when industry giants come begging for government regulations.Arkansas Online24d agoWhole story →PlanetTechnologyai regulation debate
N.J. House midterm candidates host debateTom Kean Jr., the New Jersey Republican congressman whose four-month absence from the House this year went unexplained until he disclosed that he was being treated for depression, clashed Sunday with Democratic opponent Rebecca Bennett in the battleground district over his support for President Donald Trump's tariffs and the Iran war.Arkansas Online26d agoWhole story →SecurityEconomynew jersey midterm debate
