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Heather Baker, president and publisher of AY Media Group, is featured among the “Top 10 Visionary Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2026” in an article published on MSN.com, marking a significant milestone for the Arkansas media executive whose career spans three …

Photos by Jane Colclasure Kenneth “Muskie” Harris finds a lot of things to love about life; not least among them is the telling of a good story. Fortunately, his has been a life that has yielded more fascinating tales, interesting …

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order creating the White House Great American Recovery Initiative, an effort to coordinate a national response to the country’s addiction epidemic. The initiative will be co-chaired by Secretary of Health and Human …

What does a former Razorback do during his day? For Kenneth “Muskie” Harris, who was a four-year letterman in football at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, much of his day is spent helping others. As owner, director and court …

For Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin, it’s personal. Griffin met with student leaders and administrators at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Monday, Sept. 8, as part of the “One Pill Can Kill” initiative, which is aimed at raising …

Beverly Vance Aikins, mother of Vice President JD Vance, will speak at the John 3:16 Ministries Women’s Conference in Charlotte, Arkansas, on June 7. Aikins has been vocal about her experiences with addiction, which Vance wrote about in his memoir, …

Cellphones and other personal electronic devices will soon be out of the hands of Arkansas students thanks to the Bell to Bell, No Cell Act, which requires public school districts and open-enrollment public charter schools to create policies prohibiting the …

The Arkansas state legislature’s push to rid the state’s classrooms of cellphones is a wonderful proposal that should have happened 10 years ago at the very least. Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders kicked off the 2025 legislative session by announcing the …

The Arkansas Opioid Recovery Partnership (ARORP) recently introduced the Sentinel Project, which aims to curb the opioid crisis in Arkansas by supplying key institutions with TruNarc Handheld Narcotics Analyzers. These advanced devices rapidly test suspected narcotics, precursors, and cutting agents, …

While homelessness has plagued society for generations, the epidemic has grown into an almost unmanageable problem. Studies show the majority of homeless Americans are also battling mental health struggles such as addiction, schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder, along with a …