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al; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-family: "Chronicle SSm", serif; line-height: 28px; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">This means war! al; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-family: "Chronicle SSm", serif; line-height: 28px; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">An article Wednesday in… Read more »

At the request of U.S. Rep. French Hill and U.S. Sen. John Boozman, a meeting took place Wednesday morning at Coors Tek to discuss the proposed career and technical education center in Saline County. The proposed center will be an 112,000-square-foot building comprised of four wings housing various pathways. Students will be able to enroll in classes to prepare them for careers in… Read more »

The I CAN! Dancers will take the stage with central Arkansas “celebrities” during the fifth annual “I CAN! Dance with the Stars” at 3 p.m. Sunday at Reynolds Performance Hall on the University of Central Arkansas campus. The recital is free and open to the public. “Each class has been working on a routine for about 10 weeks and is now ready to… Read more »

President Lyndon Johnson introduced the War on Poverty to the nation 52 years ago. Designed as a comprehensive social welfare initiative, the program initially included funding for food stamps, school districts, and Medicare and Medicaid. Although many of these programs have been useful, it would be hard to make a legitimate case that their efficiency matches the total investment by the… Read more »

Political leaders such as Donald Trump, make it really easy for people such as me, a 21-year-old surrounded by liberals, to overgeneralize the Republican party as either racist, or racially insensitive. Certainly the fact that the prison system is warehousing black men, as Michelle Alexander has pointed out in her book, The New Jim Crow, isn’t usually at the list of Republican… Read more »

KEO, Ark. - One group of birds are causing major problems to the tune of millions of dollars for fish farmers in Arkansas and across the south. They're called Cormorants and farmers said they're eating fish straight from ponds and eating out of farmer's pocket books. "We're the largest producer of hybrid striped bass in the world we ship fish to Taiwan, Israel and… Read more »

Staff members for U.S. Rep. French Hill have scheduled mobile office hours for this week. Seven stops have been set, one each in Conway, Faulkner, Perry, Pulaski, Saline, Van Buren and White counties, the Republican from Little Rock said. Mobile office hours are: • Monday, 9-11 a.m. at Beebe City Hall, 321 N. Elm St., and from 1-3 p.m. at the Jacksonville Community Center, 5… Read more »

Laura Vaught rarely visits her local post office, but she'll drop in from time to time after it's renamed. Soon the small, brick federal building off Perryville's main strip will bear her brother's name. Perryville Post Office 72126 will become the Harold George Bennett Post Office, honoring the first American prisoner of war killed during the Vietnam War -- a young man… Read more »

All six members of Arkansas’ congressional delegation have earned Friend of Farm Bureau distinction, and will be recognized with the honor over the next two weeks in ceremonies to be held across the state. U.S. Senators John Boozman and Tom Cotton, plus House of Representatives members Rick Crawford, Steve Womack, French Hill, and Bruce Westerman each demonstrated support for… Read more »

Hill to attend post office's renaming U.S. Rep. French Hill will be in Perryville on Monday for the renaming of its post office. The Republican from Little Rock and U.S. Sen. John Boozman, a Republican from Rogers, sponsored legislation to name the facility after Harold George Bennett. Bennett, a native of Thornburg, was executed June 25, 1965, after repeatedly trying to escape from… Read more »