Housing Arkansas, a coalition of affordable housing advocates in the private, government and nonprofit sectors, held a news conference on Monday, March 2 to highlight legislation that would create a statewide housing trust fund for Arkansas. The trust fund would allow access to quality housing for a broad range of Arkansans.
Archive: March 2009 | Section: Media, Public Policy, Southern Bancorp, Video
The Knowledge Is Power Program, also known as KIPP, is expanding its educational operation in the Arkansas Delta. Currently, the program has a free open-enrollment public charter middle school and high school in Helena-West Helena.
Archive: November 2008 | Section: KIPP School, Media, Phillips County, Podcasts, Southern Bancorp News
With summer temperatures reaching triple digits, many Arkansans have trouble paying their electric bills. Entergy Arkansas’ The Power to Care program, administered by Southern Good Faith Fund, provides financial assistance to eligible Entergy customers who are elderly or disabled and meet income guidelines.
Archive: July 2008 | Section: Media, Project Deserve, Southern Bancorp, Southern Good Faith Fund, Video
Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel on March 18, 2008, held a news conference to announce that he was ordering payday lenders in Arkansas to cease making loans and to forgive existing loan debt.
Archive: March 2008 | Section: Media, Southern Good Faith Fund, Video
Southern Good Faith Fund and its parent company, Southern Bancorp Inc., provide free tax preparation to hundreds of Arkansans each year as part of the Internal Revenue Service’s Volunteer Income Tax Preparation (VITA) program. Southern Good Faith Fund President Angela Duran discussed how the VITA program increases participants’ assets in an interview following a March 11, 2008, news conference highlighting Southern’s VITA services…
Archive: March 2008 | Section: Media, Southern Good Faith Fund, Video
The debate over increasing the severance tax on natural gas is building momentum in Arkansas.
Right now, gas companies pay Arkansas three-tenths of a cent for every 1,000 cubic feet taken from the Fayetteville shale play. The rate is one of the lowest in the country.
Archive: January 2008 | Section: Media, Public Policy, Southern Bancorp, Southern Good Faith Fund, Video
Governor Mike Beebe, accompanied by students from Helena-West Helena; Southern Good Faith Fund Public Policy Program Director Mike Leach and officials from several state agencies, officially kicked off the state’s new Aspiring Scholars Matching Grant Program with a news conference at Pulaski Heights Elementary School in Little Rock on January 18, 2008.
Archive: January 2008 | Section: Aspiring Scholars, Media, Southern Good Faith Fund, Video
What happens when parents, students and teachers all commit to a student’s success? If the KIPP Delta College Preparatory School in Helena-West Helena is any indication, that combination can be powerful and productive.
Archive: November 2007 | Section: Delta Bridge Project, KIPP School, Media, Phillips County, Southern Bancorp, Video
After a mild start to summer, the high heat has arrived in August with a vengeance. And high temperatures in August mean high electricity bills in September.
Archive: August 2007 | Section: Media, Public Policy, Southern Bancorp, Southern Good Faith Fund, Video
North Little Rock may ban any new check cashing and pay day loan companies from coming into the city. It’s the latest in a series of bans that cover everything from pit bulls to novelty lighters. Is North Little Rock ban happy or just a progressive city taking action when needed?
Here is a list of some of things North Little Rock has banned recently:
-It was one of the
Archive: August 2007 | Section: Media, Public Policy, Southern Bancorp, Southern Good Faith Fund, Video
