June/July 2016 Issue Two longtime Arkansas manufacturers are playing leading roles in enhancing the sound and picture experiences of movie theaters worldwide. Top photo: A Klipsch behind-the-screen system at Fix Brewhouse in Indianapolis. Photographs courtesy of Klipsch Group and Power…
Erica Sweeney
Erica Sweeney
Erica Sweeney is the former editor of AMP. She now works as a freelance writer and editor based in Little Rock.
June/July 2016 Issue Now that Arkansas Works, the state’s Medicaid expansion plan, has been passed and funded, we asked five health care industry leaders in the state how their specific segment of the industry will be impacted. Dan Rahn Chancellor…
Gov. Asa Hutchinson today, April 26, announced that Sun Paper will open a bio-refinery in Clark County. Hongxin Li, chairman and founder of Sun Paper, joined Hutchinson for the announcement in the Governor’s Conference Room at the Arkansas State Capitol.…
Winners of the 2016 Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup were announced today, April 19, at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock. The Governor’s Cup is a business plan competition for undergraduate and graduate students. Six undergraduate and six graduate…
Springdale-based NanoMech announced April 13 that it has secured $10 million in capital for leading its Series C Financing round from Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures (SAEV), the corporate venturing subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s national oil company. This capital infusion and relationship…
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RopeSwing Announces Development of Events Space in Downtown Bentonville
RopeSwing Hospitality Group announced that it is developing Record, a 12,000-square-foot event space in downtown Bentonville, located at 104 SW A St. Construction will begin this month, with an opening scheduled for October 2016. Two events have already been confirmed…
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Dave & Buster’s to Open Little Rock Location in June 2016
Dave & Buster’s will open at the Grove at Gateway Town Center, near the Outlets at Little Rock, in June 2016. “After 34 years, Dave & Buster’s is excited to come home to Arkansas,” said Charles Beyer, general manager of…
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5 Questions: Jon Meacham on History, Politics and the ’16 Presidential Campaign
“What I try to argue is that history may not offer us a GPS to the future, but it does offer us a way of thinking — a habit of mind that gives us some sense of proportion about the…
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Special Session: Hutchinson Drops Managed Care Plan; Groups Call for Arkansas Works Passage
At a press conference today, April 5, Gov. Asa Hutchinson issued a proclamation calling for the Arkansas General Assembly to address only the Arkansas Works legislation at a special session beginning at 10 a.m. tomorrow and dropping the managed care proposal…
April/May 2016 Issue The Delta Entrepreneurship Network strives to provide opportunity to startups and small businesses in an underserved part of the country. Photography by Sara Edwards Neal Photo at top: Katie Milligan and Chris Masingill help entrepreneurs and…