ROCK It’s chilly on this winter morning as John Ed Anthony throws another piece of wood on the fire. I’m at Anthony’s Shortleaf Farm, a scenic piece of property on Arkansas 290 near Hot Springs. Last Friday night, the University of Arkansas’ Sam Walton...

“In both cases,” the investigation concluded, “engineers’ intuitions, hunches and concerns were disregarded by top management because of the absence of hard data.” To some, this indictment is a call for more measurement tools. Walmart founder Sam...

Not to take issue with the term “flyover country”– I’ll write about that more later — but the idea that success is measured by recognition on both coasts is frequently debunked by stories of financial success. Targeting a large and unglamorous niche can...

“There’s no question that 38 percent is a high bar,” said Marshall Ney, a Rogers attorney who is serving as a spokesman for a group called Keep Dollars in Benton County. The effort is being funded, in part, by Tom Walton and Steuart Walton, grandsons...

Keep Dollars in Benton County is trying to legalize retail alcohol sales in the county. The group received initial funding from Sam Walton’s grandsons Steuart and Tom Walton. Their father, Jim Walton, is on Walmart’s board of directors and is chief...

Walton family money is backing an effort to put the question of making Benton County "wet" on the November general election ballot. A local group called Keep Dollars in Benton County has hired a professional company to collect the approximately 40,000...