Jack Weatherly
Recent Stories by Jack Weatherly
Tax less if Albert Pike has old look
posted: 05/23/2013 3:39 a.m. Discuss
The more the Albert Pike Hotel changes when it undergoes a $6 million renovation, the more it will look like its old self — from the street and in the common areas of the historic structure, that is.
FDA meeting resistance on compounding
posted: 05/19/2013 3:28 a.m. Comment 1
State and federal authorities agreed that things got out of hand when the New England Compounding Center produced mass quantities of contaminated injectable steroids linked to more than 50 deaths among hundreds of cases of meningitis last fall.
THAT’S BUSINESS: Mowers, manpower and the eternal verities of lawn care
posted: 05/19/2013 3:19 a.m. Discuss
Charles Portis has a handle on reality. In his novels, there’s always some character tinkering with a gasoline engine, it seems. Portis knows how we live.
100 state ‘episodes of care’ seen ahead
posted: 05/16/2013 12:54 a.m. Discuss
Arkansas plans to expand its “episodes of care” approach for health-care-cost containment to as many as 100 medical conditions in the next few years, according to Rhonda Hill, director of health-care finance for Arkansas Center for Health Improvement.
Newest Marriott dominates area
posted: 05/12/2013 2:58 a.m. Comment 1
Signs came down and others went up and on May 1 Little Rock’s dominant hotel, the Peabody, became the Marriott.
THAT’S BUSINESS: Pine tree growers await turnaround in homebuilding industry
posted: 05/12/2013 2:51 a.m. Discuss
I am carefully making my way through vines with very sharp thorns as I inspect the pines along the creek. I am looking for signs of beaver damage.
THAT’S BUSINESS: Albert Pike renewal an invitation for a stroll through history
posted: 05/05/2013 2:44 a.m. Discuss
Revitalization is the watchword for Little Rock’s Main Street. Turning old, abandoned retail buildings into living and entertainment space is what Main is all about these days.
$18 million medical office to go up at LR’s midtown
posted: 05/02/2013 3:30 a.m. Discuss
Little Rock Medical Associates will build a four-story, 72,000-square-foot building just west of the Doctors Hospital Building and will tear down that structure for further expansion in the future, as well as for parking.
THAT’S BUSINESS: Club Haus, LA Fitness muscling way into fitness club ranks
posted: 04/28/2013 2:52 a.m. Discuss
Medical testing’s loss is a fitness club’s gain.
THAT’S BUSINESS: Joining the dance: Southern traditions and meteorological realities
posted: 04/21/2013 2:18 a.m. Discuss
Sean Cullers, Jon Stone and Flynn Smith, who opened The Independent last fall, are certainly doing their part to revive and reinvent the look of the early ’60s with its tight suits and lightly padded shoulders.
