Arkansas Business back issues from January 1993:
The Lafayette - back from the brink. (Lafayette Building)
Jan 04, 1993; Waldon, George ... New Owners Savor the Taste of a Historic $1.5 Million Deal THOUGH THE CHAMpagne won't start flowing until a grand reopening planned for Feb. 5, the Lafayette Building's new owners marked their official one-year anniversary Dec. 18. Partners Johnny Mitchum and Henry Nichols ...
State employs 52,000, tops in Arkansas. (Arkansas Business Rankings)
Jan 04, 1993; Smith, David (American novelist) ... Wal-Mart Ranks Second With Almost 27,000 Workers in State IT PROBABLY WON'T COME AS a surprise to many Arkansans that the largest employer in the state is the state itself. State government employs more than 52,000 people in Arkansas, almost twice the number of employees ...
Workers compensation putting businesses in bind. (includes related article) (Industry Report)
Jan 04, 1993; Smith, David (American novelist) ... Insurance Commissioner's Proposed Reforms Could Resolve Problem of Rising Costs SUTTON PRODUCTS INC., a growing millwork manufacturer in Bergman, north of Harrison, paid $34,000 for workers compensation coverage for its 60 employees in 1991. A year later, that cost would ...
International eyes on Arkadelphia's Carrier plant. (manufacturing plant of Carrier Corp.) (Industry Report)
Jan 04, 1993; Smith, David (American novelist) ... 'Absolutely Unbelievable' Among the Descriptions for $100 Million Facility CARRIER CORP.'S $100 MILLION state-of-the-art manufacturing facility near Arkadelphia is drawing worldwide attention. The plant, dedicated less than three months ago, already has attracted the ...
The big grudge match: will Clinton's labor weakness doom 'right-to-work' laws?
Jan 11, 1993; Haman, John ... WANT TO START A fight? Find a union organizer and a company manager in Arkansas, sit them down and ask what they think about the right-to-work law. Thanks to Bill Clinton, this ploy is a guaranteed donnybrook. At high tide in the general election campaign, the ...
Positively Pine Bluff: Pine Bluff has a new marketing campaign to go with its new attitude. (Pine Bluff, Arkansas)
Jan 11, 1993; Rengers, Carrie ... A NEW MARKETING PLAN for the city of Pine Bluff takes a spin on the city's seemingly new attitude. "Positively Pine Bluff" is the plan created by the Little Rock-based advertising agency Cranford Johnson Robinson Woods that debuted this month. It captures part of the city's positive ...
Teacher recruits inspire Delta: Teach for America a boon to region's schools. (Arkansas)
Jan 11, 1993; Walters, Dixie ... IN GOULD, A NIGERIAN MAN with a postgraduate science degree works to instill his love of science in secondary school students. At a Helena junior high, a Harvard University-educated literature major tries to inspire special education students to achievement, while at the high ...
Impressions of Arkansas: national and international journalists cover the state while reporting on Clinton. (American President Bill Clinton)
Jan 11, 1993; Rengers, Carrie ... We'd spent the night in Clinton, Okla., where at lunch at Pop Hicks' they asked if we were foreigners. We answered that we were from New York City but didn't know if that meant yes or no. By evening, we had crossed into the Great State of Arkansas and settled down for dinner at the Waffle ...
UAMS dominates state salaries: UA System President is highest paid outside UAMS. (Arkansas, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences at Little Rock)
Jan 11, 1993; Smith, David (American novelist) ... THE 50 HIGHEST-PAID STATE government employees work at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences at Little Rock. As a matter of fact, probably 90 of the top 100 state government employees are physicians at UAMS. So, to diversify the rankings, Arkansas Business has divided its ...
The race through space: Oaklawn Park gallops to new, bigger market with satellite simulcasting.
Jan 18, 1993; Haman, John ... THE VERY MENTION OF 1989 is agony for friends of Oaklawn Park. It was the year the imponderable was pondered: The venerable thoroughbred racetrack in Hot Springs had fallen in the stretch, and a mercy killing seemed imminent. Attendance was low, purses shrunken, and the quality of ...
Technical advances: Pulaski Technical College improving image of two-year institutions.
Jan 18, 1993; Taylor, Tim ... THE TERM "VO-TECH" brings to mind images of young, lanky men in coveralls learning the ins and outs of auto transmission repair. North Little Rock's Pulaski Technical College is making great strides to dispel this impression. Changing the school's name was only the ...
Publishing property: a new entrant prepares to join the real estate marketing wars. (Central Arkansas Real Estate Weekly)
Jan 18, 1993; Waldon, George ... NEWSSTAND SPACE around Pulaski County will grow more congested when a new real estate publication enters the market later this month. The first issue of Central Arkansas Real Estate Weekly isn't scheduled to hit the racks until Jan. 26, with a new edition to follow every Tuesday ....
Black power: it's growing for a select group, but is it static for others?
Jan 18, 1993; Walters, Dixie ... DESPITE THE INCREASing prominence of a small circle of black leaders, minorities in Arkansas do not appear to be making great strides economically. According to 1990 U.S. Census Bureau figures, the most recent available, black median household income in Arkansas continues to lag ...
Financial fill up: small business loan fuels $12 million Jonesboro venture. (Company Profile)
Jan 18, 1993; Waldon, George ... MONEY IS THE FUEL THAT makes business go, and Lone Star Co. has motored down the fiscal highway during the past six years. Sales for the Jonesboro-based wholesale and retail petroleum distributor have grown from $3.5 million in 1986 to $12 million today. During that same ...
Center of success: Texarkana facility for disabled workers grows under director Ross Parker. (Texarkana Work Center) (Company Profile)
Jan 18, 1993; Harris, Jim ... LIKE THE OLD CASKET COMpany that was serving as its home as recently as 10 years ago, the Texarkana Work Center hardly received much notice. Some Texarkana residents now well aware of the facility might admit that 10-15 years ago they didn't know it existed. Others may have ...
McNeill Trucking tops state bankruptcies. (McNeill Trucking Company Inc.) (Arkansas Business Rankings)
Jan 18, 1993; Smith, David (American novelist) ... THE MCNEILL TRUCKING Co. of North Little Rock filed the largest business bankruptcy in Arkansas in 1992. McNeill, which filed for bankruptcy on Feb. 24, listed $11,531,313 in debt and $8,587,667 in assets. That is a dramatic drop from the largest business bankruptcy filed ...
Corporate anxiety: streamlining at Entergy Corp. benefits ratepayers but costs hundreds their jobs. (includes related article on new officers of the firm)
Jan 25, 1993; Waldon, George ... NEWS OF ANOTHER round of staff cuts among the various Entergy Corp. operations was widely talked about internally during the fall. However, supervisors didn't hand out 30-day notices to individual employees until Jan. 8 and Jan. 11. In all, about 400 primarily white-collar jobs were ...
A private examination: DHS Director Jack Reynolds suggests a look at Medicaid privatization. (Department of Health and Human Services) (Health Care Update)
Jan 25, 1993; Rengers, Carrie ... JACK REYNOLDS WANTS to cut costs within the state Department of Human Services, and the way he hopes to do so is getting plenty of attention. The DHS director espouses privatization of the struggling Medicaid program as an option for cost reduction. DHS, the largest state agency, ...
Legislating business. (bills affecting business and industry in Arkansas) (Health Care Update)
Jan 25, 1993; Wells, George ... When the State Legislature Reconvenes, the Business Community Will Be Watching Closely MORE THAN 230 BILLS were introduced by the state House and Senate before the Legislature recessed to attend former Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton's inauguration as president last week. There ...
The continental divide. (parting of ways of owners of Arkansas' restaurant group Continental Cuisine Inc.)
Jan 25, 1993; Rengers, Carrie ... Denis Seyer Splits From Partners in Continental Cuisine Inc., Arkansas' Premier Restaurant Group TOO MANY COOKS spoil the broth. That's the adage that applies to the recent breakup of Continental Cuisine Inc., Arkansas' premier restaurant group. CCI co-owner Denis ...
KATV is no. 1 in Little Rock: Arbitron ratings show Channel 7 has significant lead in market. (KATV television station, Little Rock, Arkansas; Arbitron Co.) (Industry Overview)
Jan 25, 1993; Smith, David (American novelist) ... KATV-TV, CHANNEL 7, again is the No. 1 television station in Little Rock, according to the most recent Arbitron Co. ratings. The Arbitron ratings, covering the period Oct. 28-Nov. 24, show KATV with a significant advantage from sign-on to sign-off. The station has a rating of 8 and ...
The trolley comeback: Logan County company plots future as producer of rubber-tire trolleys. (Logan County, Arkansas; Boyertown Auto Body Works)
Jan 25, 1993; Walters, Dixie ... RUBBER-TIRE TROLLEYS, modern transportation vehicles with a look inspired by an earlier era, are made by just three companies in the United States. One of these is in Booneville. Boyertown Logan Body Works has been in the trolley business off and on since 1872 when the ...
A family tradition: Jackson County family earns annual farming honor. (Jack K. Hardin and kin named 1992 Arkansas Farm Family of the Year)
Jan 25, 1993; Taylor, Tim ... TO SAY THAT FARMING IS A way of life for Jack K. Hardin would be an understatement. A small cut would probably reveal that Hardin bleeds green. A fourth-generation farmer, Hardin manages a 6,000-acre farm in Tupelo (Jackson County) with the help of his wife, Mary, his son Millard, ...
Health care jobs are calling. (employment opportunities for medical care personnel in Arkansas) (Health Care Update) (Industry Overview)
Jan 25, 1993; Ford, Kelly ... Need for Nurses, Other Allied Health Professionals Reflected in 41 Percent Rise in UAMS School Enrollment THE 1979 BENTON HIGH School graduating class wasn't extra-ordinary at first glance. But it included a group of young men that, while rowdy enough, were serious about their ...
Rolling the dice on RK: controversy surrounds radial keratotomy, but thousands of Arkansans take the risk. (eye surgery for nearsightedness) (Health Care Update)
Jan 25, 1993; Haman, John ... THE THOUGHT OF CUTTING into a human eye makes anyone but an ophthalmologist cringe. It's a procedure traditionally reserved for ocular disease and trauma -- conditions that leave no choice but surgery. In the absence of infirmity, most people would prefer to keep all sharp objects away from ...
