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Articles in May 5, 2008 issue of Arkansas Business

• Declining newspaper circulation
• Counting the cost of historic work: library project hits $21 million; opening expected in 2008
  by George Waldon
• Provider law likely heading back to court
  by Mark Friedman
• Franchises gain momentum in Arkansas
  by Jamie Walden
• Lions update
• Family business
• Greasing the wheels
• Growing pains
• The Siren's call
• Plumbing problems
• Still galling
• Gas at $10 a gallon?
• [Cartoon]
  by P. Kirkpatrick
• Home Ec
  by Gwen Moritz
• An investment in education
  by Douglas Revere
• Lone Star buy
  by George Waldon
• Tandem transaction
  by George Waldon
• Jivan acquisition
  by George Waldon
• Country Club Home I
  by George Waldon
• Rural purchase
  by George Waldon
• Chenal downs abode
  by George Waldon
• Country Club Home II
  by George Waldon
• Country Club Home III
  by George Waldon
• Arbors house
  by George Waldon
• Courts property
  by George Waldon
• Maisons home
  by George Waldon
• LaMarche residence
  by George Waldon
• Ace mortgage
  by George Waldon
• Cargill won't rebuild meat plant at Booneville
  by Lance Turner
• Pizo to begin construction on $29m Blytheville plant
  by Amy Riggin
• ThermoEnergy, Babcock plan to build pilot facility
  by Lance Turner
• Murphy Oil's 1q income soars on high oil prices
• ThermoEnergy executives see compensation decline
• P.A.M. Transportation posts $2.8 million 1st-quarter loss
• Tyson Foods reports losing 5 million in second quarter
• Baldor names VP of audit, sets 2q dividend
• Plum Creek earnings decline in first quarter
• Fayetteville shale increases Southwestern Energy profit
• Deltic Timber Corp
• J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc
• Equity Media Holdings Corp. of Little Rock has entered into a second credit amendment with Silver Point Finance LLC and Wells Fargo Foothill Inc
• Acxiom to employ 100 in Poland by end of year
  by Jamie Walden
• Securities Commissioner files suit over casino
  by Gwen Moritz
• Wave Enterprises brings Nautique boats to market
  by Katie Stockstill
• Crosses Cross paths at Bank of Eureka Springs
  by Worth Sparkman
• Democrats hold edge in Northwest Arkansas
• Fikes Truck Line
• The Arkansas Trucking Association will hold its 2008 Business Conference May 8-9 at the Embassy Suites and John Q. Hammons Convention Center at Rogers
• Little Rock National Airport has added an "airfare watchdog" to its Web site, www.lrn-airport.com/airlines
• Windstream Corp. now offers 12-megabits per second Internet service in certain areas and is expanding its 3- and 6-Mbps service
• Clear, the fast-pass for airport security, said the Clear lane has been used more than 10,000 times at Little Rock National Airport since the program began last summer
• The Arkansas State Chamber/ AIA Small Business Council will meet from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on May 7, in the State Chamber office at 1200 West Capitol Ave. in Little Rock
• Arkansas Health Center at Benton
• Wal-Mart Stores Inc. won't charge a fee to cash customers' economic stimulus checks—even with no purchase
• Arkansas Chapter No. 64 of Institute of Real Estate Management, one of 88 IREM chapters worldwide, received high honors in IREM's Chapter Star Recognition Program
• Wal-Mart Foundation has donated $1.5 million to America's Second Harvest for hunger relief efforts
• Collette Honorable, chairman of the Arkansas Public Service Commission, has been named to serve on the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissions
• Appeal and lawsuit challenge ADEQ permits
  by Mark Hengel
• Panel discusses progress toward more broadband
  by Amy Riggin
• Whole hog expands through licensing
  by Jamie Walden
• Candy Bouquet sours on franchisee
  by Mark Friedman
• Calendar
• Harding University
• Richland Elementary School
• University of Central Arkansas
• Harding University
• Union Bank
• Arkansas Federal Credit Union
• Mark Gaydos has joined Investment Professionals Inc. at the Bank of the Ozarks in Little Rock as a financial consultant
• Mary A. McGehee, a senior research analyst at the Arkansas Department of Health, has been selected to serve on the U.S. Census Bureau's Advisory Committee on the African-American population
• Medical Office System
• North Arkansas Regional Medical Center
• Conway Regional Health System
• American Cancer Society
• Arkansas Optometric Association
• Stock Summary
• NWA home trouble
• Hospital response
• Landing a big fish
  by Mark Hengel
• News about a newscast
  by Mark Hengel

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