Envirotech's $80 million, 800-job EV project in Osceola leaves lots of questions about finances, executive team, manufacturing experience, and operations as an unregulated over-the-counter stock. See Daily Record story here: bit.ly/3pnx4Eu
ALT Corona, Calif.-based Envirotech recently announced Osceola, Arkansas as the site of its previously announced state-of-the-art $80 million manufacturing facility. Project, company officials say, would bring 800 jobs to Northeast Arkansas.
Nation’s supply chain crisis could be the Grinch that stole Christmas in 2021. Now hub for logistics and supply chain industry, Northwest Arkansas firms seeking solutions to port bottlenecks: bit.ly/3BgHnNM
History-making @sheriffpulaski Eric Higgins sheriff takes department through once-in-lifetime challenges. Read excellent profile by @hebda_dwain here: bit.ly/3BSzXRZ
ARORA’s top executive steps down amid federal organ donation reforms. State's largest organ donation agency faces possible de-certification. Read more here: bit.ly/3Bt68az
Arkansas, U.S. homebuilders say pandemic-aided lumber prices endanger housing construction, renovation projects. Check out our story here: dailyrecord.us/arkansas-u-s-…
ALT The National Association of Home Builders says the unprecedented
spikes in lumber prices have added nearly $36,000 to the average cost
of a new single-family home in the U.S.
Last year, two journalism professors started an oral history project to document the work of local newsrooms in mid-America. They found the community in community journalism.
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Once again, I've been followed on Twitter by an attorney for an entity that received a FOIA request from me today. These kinds of moves seem oddly hostile.
The SBA will reopen the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to new & minority borrowers seeking first & second draw loans on (Monday) Jan. 11-13 at local CDFIs. PPP2 will open to Big Banks, other lenders shortly after. Check out upcoming editions of the @dailyrecord_AR for details.
Congress approves $900 billion emergency stimulus package, signed by President Trump on Sunday night. Get details on new COVID-19 aid, including retooled Paycheck Protection Program, in our @Dailyrecord_AR cover story here: bit.ly/37RoJkm
ALT New rules for Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP2, extends COVID-19 loans to targeted small businesses.
@GileadScience recently launched its $10 million Racial Equity Community Impact Fund. @ARInnovationHub selected among 20 organizations to use technology, innovation to fight racial inequities affecting Black communities across the U.S. Read here: bit.ly/3adtVAz
ARORA @DonateLifeAR could soon be decertified as one of the 8 worst-run organ procurement agencies in the U.S. @CMSgov has issued final rules to reform the nation’s 58 OPOs as 20 people die daily waiting for organ transplants. @DailyRecord_AR story here: dailyrecord.us/trump-adminis…
Arkansas’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan will be rolled out in 3 phases, according to the state Health Dept.’s 50-page strategy to inoculate the state’s 3 million-plus population in all 75 counties. Read about it here: dailyrecord.us/arkansas-vacc…
Want to learn more about Pfizer’s and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines and Operation Warp Speed’s plan to distribute them in late 2020 or early 2021, read the @Dailyrecord_AR account here: tinyurl.com/y4thapv4
Read our story by Daily Record publisher @Brownonbusiness on how African American CEO @DLWilliamsSr and his Arkansas team has transformed @southernbancorp into one of the nation’s top community development financial institutions.