The more cyber-immersed the world becomes, the more it needs folks like Stephen Addison and his cybersecurity students at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway. Addison, physics professor and dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at…
March 2020
- Business & FinanceFinance & BankingMagazineMarch 2020
Riverdale Commerce Center to Open in March 2021
by Tyler Haleby Tyler HaleCentennial Bank is creating a new “one-stop shopping” experience for its banking customers with a new Riverdale facility in Little Rock. The Conway-based bank broke ground on its new Riverdale Commerce Center in late February. Located at 1031 Rebsamen Park…
- EducationMagazineMarch 2020
Two-Year Colleges Providing Fast Track to Success
by Dwain Hebdaby Dwain HebdaA college degree has come to represent many things in America. In past generations, it was considered a golden ticket to a better life, a prerequisite to virtually any career you could name. More recently, the cost-benefit of a degree…
- MagazineMarch 2020OpinionStartup AR
Four Ways That Entrepreneurship Is Like Hitting a Major League Fastball
by David Moodyby David MoodyMajor league baseball and entrepreneurship: Two things you don’t usually think of as being comparable. However, working with many first- or second-time startup founders, I’ve begun to compare their success to hitting a baseball in the major leagues. In the…
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission For over 100 years, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission has been working with local and federal partners to conserve and enhance Arkansas’s fish and wildlife and their habitats while promoting sustainable outdoor recreation. AGFC…
By Dustin Jayroe | Photo by Jamison Mosley For Arkansas Democrats, Blue Waters Are More Than a ‘Hop, SKIP and a Jump’ Away What once was a comfortable stable for the Democratic Party has turned into anything but, with reports of depressing…
- MagazineMarch 2020
Westward Expansion: Growth Prompts Move to WLR for State’s Largest Credit Union
by Mark Carterby Mark Carterby Mark Carter For many central Arkansas old timers, the announcement in January that Arkansas Federal Credit Union had purchased the Family Life building in the Highway 10 corridor of west Little Rock for its new headquarters came as a…
- BusinessFinance & BankingMagazineMarch 2020
State’s First Credit Union, TruService Focuses on Community
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffIt may not be the biggest, but TruService Community Federal Credit Union was the first of its kind in the state, planting the credit union flag in 1930. Based in Little Rock and serving members in Pulaski and Faulkner counties,…
- MagazineMarch 2020Media/Marketing
Close Enough For Rock & Roll: Arkansas Rocks Brings Journey Almost Full Circle
by Kelley Bassby Kelley BassMy first job after college – working in the features department at the Arkansas Gazette – actually was a continuation of an internship that spanned three summers and even Christmas holidays. Other than the four-figure starting pay (yes, four figures),…
- MagazineMarch 2020Media/Marketing
Turns Out, Radio Killed the Radio Star: Arkansas Rocks Returning Airwaves to Good Ole Days
by Kelley Bassby Kelley Bassby Kelley Bass | Photography by Jamison Mosley “There goes the last DJ who plays what he wants to play and says what he wants to say. … There goes your freedom of choice. There goes the last human voice. There…