Small-business owners and community leaders from across south Arkansas and the Arkansas Delta who attended a Rural Business Development Conference on Friday care about their communities, an official with the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation said in his keynote address.
Tuesday s regular Pine Bluff City Council meeting was moving at a rapid pace when the issue of limiting "small box discount stores" in Ward 1 threw a speed bump.
Pine Bluff recently approved a letter of intent for the development of a new grocery store, which would help bring healthy food options and so much more to the area.
Pine Bluff City Council member LaTisha Brunson, who has been a faithful supporter of Go Forward Pine Bluff, surprised onlookers at Monday night s council meeting when she blocked a quick second reading of two sales tax proposals that Go Forward officials are hoping to get on a special election ballot in November.