Local business honors veterans during annual event

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Dozens from the community came out Friday to celebrate Veterans Day at Julie’s Sweet Shoppe and Bakery in Conway. Julie Goodnight, owner, hosted the event for three years in her new business, but began the annual celebration in 2005 when she worked at Ed’s Bakery on Oak Street. She said the tradition began after she heard war stories while listening to American Family Radio.…

Trump Gives Banks Their Best Shot at Rolling Back Dodd-Frank

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Banking industry lobbyists and representatives are practically salivating over the election results, convinced that Republican control of the White House and Congress will finally give them the opportunity to roll back key parts of the Dodd-Frank Act. President-elect Donald Trump's transition team declared war Thursday on the 2010 financial reform law, vowing to "dismantle"…

Arkansas-Texas Melted-Cheese War Boils Over

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State, federal leaders discuss actions needed for CTE center

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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…

I CAN! dancers take stage with 'celebrities'

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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…

Hill: Addressing poverty 'A Better Way'

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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…

Surprise! Republican Leads the Fight Against Mass Imprisonment of Black Men

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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…

Fish Farmers Expected to Lose Millions from Pesky Bird

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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…

Washington news in brief

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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…

Arkansas post office named for slain POW

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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…

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