Mark Carter

Knowledge is power, the saying goes. The mission of one Arkansas nonprofit is to equip the state’s youth with power through financial literacy.  Junior Achievement of Arkansas works to promote work-readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy among Arkansas students in kindergarten…

Like all health care facilities, behavioral health hospitals had to play a round of pandemic twister beginning in March. From the way patients are screened and processed to how therapeutic services are carried out and even how meals are served,…

Investing is enough of a quandary for many of us in normal times. But September represents month No. 7 of the pandemic’s global impact. That seems like a quandary on steroids. Zachary Riley, CFA, CPA, with Foundation Resource Management of…

The Seth MacFarlane movies, Ted and Ted 2, aren’t for everyone, to put it mildly. The humor is slapstick, raunchy and juvenile, for sure. (Slapstick and juvenile — two of my favorite comedic elements.) But I never fail to laugh,…

The usually bustling corner of Sixth and Gaines streets in downtown Little Rock is quiet these days, but the business of health insurance in Arkansas is anything but.  For Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield, which has called Gaines Street…

My first memory of the Washington Redskins remains fairly vivid. I was 5 or 6 and discovered them on TV one Sunday afternoon soon after returning to the States from overseas. Catching up on exposure to American football, something clicked…

The Arkansas Razorbacks open fall camp for the 2020 college football season on Aug. 17, a big day for new head coach Sam Pittman and his staff. After all, when the coronavirus shut things down in mid-March, the Hogs were…

So, there will be college football in the fall. The auxiliary verb ‘will’ these pandemic days entailing the phrases ‘hope to’ and ‘are planning on it.’ Officially, college football plans to move forward, with a COVID twist, in 2020. With…

The new College of Health & Behavioral Sciences building at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway couldn’t come at a better time, school officials say. The 80,000-square-foot facility, expected to be complete next fall, will house the School of…

Health care professionals, like their counterparts in other industries, are feeling their way into the future, unsure of just what the post-pandemic landscape will look like. Many Arkansas providers seem to agree on one thing, however: When it comes to…