April 2022

Just three months into 2022, AcreTrader is experiencing a record year for growth. The Fayetteville-based farmland investment company just received a $20 million investment from Drive Capital, the Ohio venture capital firm that has invested in more than 50 companies…

Headquartered in Dallas but launched in Texarkana in 1964, TAC Air runs 16 aviation ground-service companies, including three in Arkansas — Fort Smith, Texarkana and Little Rock. Each fixed base operation (FBO) offers customized services such as ground handling, aircraft…

Larry Wilson began his banking career pushing a broom. The regular janitor at what was then First Jacksonville Bank had to have surgery in the mid-1960s. The owner of the bank, Larry’s father, Kenneth Pat Wilson, recruited his son, who…

After two years of pandemic havoc, people tired of being cooped up are ready to travel. The state’s two largest airports, located in Little Rock and Bentonville, are reporting major progress towards recovering the amount of passenger traffic seen before…

Ask Richard Holbert what made sense about the decision to sell Little Rock aviation outfit Central Flying Service, and the second-generation president of the company responds with the folky candor for which he is well-known. “It makes sense, to me,…

Arkansans have been under the influence of medical marijuana, legally, since 2016. In 2016, Arkansas voters approved the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment with 53 percent of the vote. The amendment to the state constitution allows patients who have a doctor’s…

One of the most prominent locations in Arkansas’ capital city — and a point of local pride — is the Arkansas’ Governor’s Mansion. Since its construction in 1950, the Governor’s Mansion has served as the home for many of Arkansas’s…

Expectations are funny things. It seems like once they’re set, they should be locked in. If a certain level of success is expected at the onset of a campaign, meeting or exceeding that should be the goal. It’s a fairly…

Finalists in the 2022 Arkansas Governor’s Cup collegiate business-plan competition from Arkansas Capital Corporation prepared tirelessly for their big moment, brainstorming business ideas and working out the kinks in every detail. Finally, they got the chance to present their hard…

Discovery Economics Imagine the office of a theoretical physicist. Most might conjure an image of a charmingly cluttered workspace, a desk littered in a moonscape of manilla folders and unfiled paperwork, walls festooned with pinned-up snapshots, Post-It notes and assorted…