Pine Bluff Briefing

31/12/2025

We believe the Right Choice!!

31/12/2025

Promoting Pine Bluff Small Business Association members!!

31/12/2025

Help PD find this guy!!

31/12/2025

Promoting Pine Bluff Small Business Association members!!

31/12/2025

Congrats Chief Compton!!

Pine Bluff Mayor Vivian Flowers has announced the official appointment of Interim Chief Randy Compton as the new Fire Chief of the Pine Bluff Fire & Emergency Services Department, effective January 1, 2026.

Read the full press release at www.cityofpinebluff-ar.gov/news.

30/12/2025

Join PBSBA and Pine Bluff Briefing will promote your business to our 9,000 followers.

Join us in our mission to make people aware of the need to buy local when possible. Go to our web site at www.pinebluffsba.org , click on members tab and join or mail a check for annual dues of $50 to PBSBA, PO Box 1602, PB, AR 71613.

30/12/2025

Thanks to Mayor Shirley Washington for making the Opportunity House happen in Pine Bluff.

🚨 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 🚨

Due to dangerously cold temperatures, the City of Pine Bluff is activating a warming center at Opportunity House (1305 East 6th Avenue).

🕕 Hours: 6:00 PM – 8:00 AM
📅 TODAY, December 29th through December 30th

The center will offer a heated and secure space, sleeping accommodations, and essential amenities on a first-come, first-served basis.

Volunteers and contributions are welcomed to strengthen this initiative. For more details or to help, contact Mar’Tavius Proctor at 870-209-5827 or [email protected].

29/12/2025

Throughout my career, I have made it a priority to pursue advanced training and certification to ensure that I am prepared for the responsibilities of this office.

Serving as Coroner requires sound judgment, experience, and a commitment to ongoing education. Over the years, I have completed extensive training in medicolegal death investigation, forensic procedures, child injury investigation, forensic toxicology, emergency preparedness, and death certification.

I am a Certified Medicolegal Death Investigator in the State of Arkansas and have completed advanced training through the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory, the Arkansas Law Enforcement Training Academy, and Saint Louis University School of Medicine.

This role requires preparation long before the call comes in. Experience, training, and continued education matter when families and our community depend on accuracy and professionalism.

I remain committed to staying prepared and focused on serving the people of Jefferson County.

Chad Kelley

29/12/2025

Promoting Pine Bluff Small Business Association members!!

If you or someone you know, needs to file this or prior years, send them to us. We can help them get current.

27/12/2025

A lot of folks are saying the latest grocery tax reduction feels small and on its own, that’s fair.

But what’s getting missed is this is the final step of a process that started nearly 20 years ago.

Back in 2007, Governor Mike Beebe and the Arkansas Legislature began the long-term plan to eliminate the grocery tax. It wasn’t done all at once so the state budget could responsibly adjust to the loss of revenue. Instead, lawmakers agreed to phase it out over time.

Here’s the timeline:

• 2007 – First major legislative move to reduce the grocery tax
• 2019 – Tax reduced to 0.125%
• March 2025 – Formal proposal introduced to fully eliminate it
• January 1, 2026 – Complete repeal of the state grocery tax takes effect

So yes, the current reduction may look minimal because it’s the last piece of a plan that’s been steadily working for almost two decades.

This didn’t happen overnight. It happened step by step, on purpose. I think we can all agree we are glad it’s gone.