pandemic

There is no question that the pandemic has been very disruptive to the legal profession, with COVID illnesses and precautions that delayed court proceedings, leading to a backlog in the system. But while some attorneys suffered (and continue to suffer)…

As technology and industries have made doing business over digital mediums more and more possible, fewer and fewer reasons appear for one to ever need to leave home. You can have food and groceries delivered to your door and download…

The biggest lesson in community banking from 2022 is how fast things are changing. Two years into the pandemic, so many ideas the industry took for granted have changed, from long-held assumptions about customer demographics to the perceived value of…

As one of the owners of the T&S Sawmill in Clarendon, Arkansas, John Taylor has experienced the deaths of family members, two fires that destroyed the mill, rising gasoline prices, White River flooding that decimated acres of timber and of…

It’s hard to imagine an industry that has been as singularly transformed by the events of the past two and a half years than medicine. From debates over efficacies and safety of fast-tracked vaccines, to the physical and mental toll…

Publisher’s Letter: Turn and Face the Strain   They say the only sure thing in this life is change. While some changes are welcome, such as an unexpected bonus or a marriage proposal (wink, wink), others can come out of…

President Biden signed a bill this past Saturday, June 25, that extends the school meal waiver program that has helped to provide free lunches to children both at school and over the summer ever since the early days of the…

The pandemic changed many things about existing work environments, for both employers and employees. With greater opportunities and varying expectations, going to work now looks different, from person to person and company to company. Although co-working spaces are not a…

Today, I would like to talk about the national increase in violent crime, and what we are doing to combat that here in Arkansas. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world felt like it came to a halt…

A recent study of stock sales by U.S. executives with corporate ties to China indicated that corporate insiders sold stock in their companies during the earliest stages of the coronavirus outbreak in China, weeks before the virus spread to other…