Toby Manthey

LR firm buying S.C.’s NuVox

Little Rock-based Windstream Corp. on Tuesday said it is buying NuVox Inc., a Greenville, S.C.-based telecommunications company, for $643 million, its third acquisition announced in the past six months.
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800 in LR told health plan is just a scheme

As the push for a vote on overhauling the health-care system builds steam in Congress, a raucous crowd in Little Rock that met Thursday to discuss “government-forced” health care put out its own heat.
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Acxiom reports profit plunge

Quarter sees 40% decline

Little Rock-based Acxiom Corp. on Wednesday reported that profit fell 40 percent, to $9.4 million from $15.9 million, for the quarter ending Sept. 30 compared with a year earlier.
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High court to review ruling on plant

The Arkansas Supreme Court agreed Thursday to review a state Court of Appeals rejection of the approval of the $2.1 billion John W. Turk Jr. power plant project in Hempstead County.
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Groups talk up public option

In LR, they urge phone-calls push

Representatives of organized labor groups met Tuesday at the Arkansas Studies Institute in Little Rock’s River Market District to voice support of a public option in Congress’ effort to overhaul the health-care system.
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Price of gas in state jumps 14¢ in week

Wall Street investment in oil cited

The price of a gallon of regular gasoline in Arkansas jumped 14 cents in the past week, reflecting the rise in the value of crude oil.
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Smaller firms torn on health overhaul

Cost, required coverage stir debate

There’s much debate among small-business owners — who create two-thirds of the jobs in the country — about what Congress should do to overhaul the healthcare system.
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August home sales dip from ’08

UA analyst calls decrease in numbers, prices ‘blip’ in recovery

The Arkansas housing market took a downturn in August, when both the average price and number of homes sold fell compared with a year earlier, according to a report Thursday by the Arkansas Realtors Association.
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St. Vincent plans 'health village'

St. Vincent Health System is planning to build a healthcare-related development of more than 300,000 square feet just south of the Promenade at Chenal shopping center in west Little Rock.
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LR firm shedding 350 jobs

In state, 20 cut at Windstream

Little Rock-based Windstream Corp. said Wednesday that it's cutting about 5 percent of its work force, or 350 positions, by year's end.
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