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Northwest Arkansas airport officials seek federal loan to support terminal expansion

  • Antoinette Grajeda

Officials at Arkansas’ busiest airport are hopeful they’ll be the first in the nation to secure a federal infrastructure program loan for a terminal expansion they say is needed to meet growing demand. Northwest Arkansas National Airport has spent nearly a year applying for the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act program, which provides credit […]

Commentary

How we can build a future for farming in Arkansas 

  • Pamela Nelson, Jacob Rowell

It’s not hard to find data that points to a farm crisis in our state.  Arkansas not only lost 166,000 acres of farmland in five years, but also led the country in farm bankruptcies in 2025. There’s no shortage of reasons why this is happening: land prices have soared, land is lost to development, older […]