Arkansas Money and Politics

4 days ago | armoneyandpolitics.com | Dwain Hebda

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday, May 12, putting pharmaceutical companies on notice that they have 30 days to reduce prices on prescription drugs, particularly those purchased through the nation’s entitlement Medicare and Medicaid health programs. “The principle is simple ― whatever the lowest price paid for a drug in other developed countries, that is the price that Americans will pay,” Trump said in his remarks announcing the action.

4 days ago | armoneyandpolitics.com | Dwain Hebda

FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinEmailArkansas-based Tyson Foods has become the latest food giant to announce it will phase out petroleum-based synthetic dyes in food products. The northwest Arkansas company said it would eliminate such dyes in its products by the end of May. The announcement comes shortly after PepsiCo, one of the largest manufacturers of snack foods and beverages, announced a similar initiative, which would eliminate such dyes by year’s end.

4 days ago | armoneyandpolitics.com | Dwain Hebda

FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinEmailIn a move that fulfilled another campaign promise, as well as bested decades of his predecessors in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump has orchestrated a major win for U.S. trade with China. The president’s team of negotiators bartered a deal that dropped the reciprocal tariff on both countries’ goods, cooling the budding trade war that had stymied trade between the two superpowers.

1 week ago | armoneyandpolitics.com | Sarah DeClerk

FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinEmailLittle Rock Mayor Frank Scott Jr. recently proclaimed May 9, 2025, to be Leon Chills Day in honor of screenwriter Leon Chills, a Little Rock native who co-wrote the film “Shadow Force” starring Kerry Washington and Omar Sy, marking Chills’ debut as a major motion picture writer.

1 week ago | armoneyandpolitics.com | Sarah DeClerk

There are lots of folks who call the Hogs in Arkansas, but perhaps no one is as passionate about pork as Holly Payne and Aaron Baldwin, co-owners of Porch Swing Farms in Bigelow. The couple launched the business in 2021, shortly after moving home to Arkansas. “Growing up, Aaron’s parents would often shake their heads at the dinner table and say, ‘This is not what pork used to taste like,’” Payne said.