Mark Carter

When Rush Harding III talks about Junior Achievement, the education nonprofit for which the Crews & Associates CEO has served as benefactor and from which he will receive a Legacy Award on May 27, it’s not long before the subject…

Junior Achievement of Arkansas will honor its 2021 Legacy Award winners May 27 from Heifer International’s world headquarters in downtown Little Rock. The Legacy Awards Luncheon, the nonprofit’s largest fundraiser benefiting more than 8,400 students in Central Arkansas, will be held…

ATA’s Shannon Newton dishes on industry challenges including worker shortage. The shift to online shopping over the course of the pandemic magnified the role of truckers in the American economy. And as the trucking industry continues to navigate a landscape impacted…

Had Star Wars not landed on planet Earth in 1977 and redefined the movies, the highest-grossing film in the United States that year would’ve been one that included an Arkansas setting. Yep, Smokey and the Bandit. Burt Reynolds, the Florida…

College baseball has come a long way since Norm DeBriyn led Arkansas to its first College World Series in 1979, and the Razorbacks program right along with it. In 1970, DeBriyn took over a moribund Hogs baseball program that played…

The Youth Entrepreneurship Showcase (Y.E.S.) from the Arkansas Economic Acceleration Foundation has awarded more than $102,000 in cash prizes to student entrepreneurs in grades 5-8 since it was launched by the Arkansas Economic Acceleration Foundation in 2006. The annual business-plan…

Early into March Madness, as Arkansans bathed in the afterglow of a 3 seed well-deserved and a program back on track, the simultaneous beauty and absurdity of the tournament hit home for me. The NCAA men’s basketball championship, a.k.a. March…

Arkansas PBS Foundation has announced the election of three new board members. The new board members include Dr. Cherisse Jones-Branch, the James and Wanda Lee Vaughn Professor of History and dean of the graduate school at Arkansas State University; Toni…

City leaders across Arkansas are placing a priority on multi-use transportation infrastructure, as road cycling, bolstered by the pandemic, continues to grow in popularity. Soon, that infrastructure should include the state’s first officially designated U.S. Bicycle Route, USBR 80, to…

Bump into a Central Arkansas native of a certain age, and chances are he or she will have a Cajun’s story or two to share. Cajun’s Wharf was an iconic Little Rock spot for decades, tucked between the Junior Deputy…