Six years ago, while the world went under lockdown and healthcare workers from one end of the country to the other girded their loins for battle daily with an unseen and largely unknown assailant, April Bennett arrived in Conway to …
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‘The Problems Just Compound:’ UAMS Interim Chancellor Discusses Health Care Challenges and What is on the Horizon
It is a well-known fact that health care is not an easy field to work in. A survey of Veterans Health Administration workers shows while worker burnout rates are lower than COVID-19 pandemic levels, they still remain high compared to …
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A Whole New Landscape: Veteran Educator and Administrator Brings Perspective to LEARNS and More
by Doug Criseby Doug CriseGov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders championed the Arkansas LEARNS Act in 2023, raising teacher salaries but also changing the fundamental way both public and private schools do business. New changes to classroom management came this year with the Bell to Bell, …
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Clinton School’s Lea Metz Earns Ph.D. Through Serendipity and Project Management
When Lea Metz applied to the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service “in secret” in 2020, she was a consultant based in North Carolina looking for a way to grow her business. She certainly wasn’t planning on getting …
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CDC Updates Immunization Schedules to Allow for Individual Choice
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Monday that it has updated its immunization schedules for youth and adults to allow for individual choice regarding COVID-19 vaccinations. In addition, the CDC recommended that toddlers receive protection from varicella …
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Arkansas’ Smaller Communities a Potent Attractor of Companies, People
by Dwain Hebdaby Dwain HebdaAfter years of eating metropolis dust and being derided as merely bedroom communities, small to medium-sized towns across America are enjoying a boom in popularity. In part, they have COVID-19 to thank for it. “During the pandemic, when remote working …
John Patrick “Pat” Fitts, who served as the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s 18th director from 2018 to 2021, died Wednesday, Aug. 6, in Little Rock. He was 59. Fitts began his 32-year career with the agency during high school …
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The Cost of Education: State Schools Look to Expand Net, Provide Value
by Mark Carterby Mark CarterThe only certain things in life are death and taxes, the saying goes, but each year — without fail — leaves fall, calendars flip, and prices rise. What a consumer could expect to pay for a car, a doctor’s visit …
Feature image: Meaghan and Donnie Ferneau, former owners of the now-closed Cathead’s Diner in Little Rock, are co-chairs of the 2025 Delta Diamond Chef Awards Gala and Competition in Pine Bluff. Photos by Jamie Lee. When longtime Little Rock …
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AMP Trailblazing Women: Phillis Nichols Anderson, Ed.D.
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffFounder, CEO ScholarMade Achievement Place EDUCATION Success often lies at the intersection of preparation and opportunity, but it is one’s ability to adapt in the face of changing circumstances that separates the merely successful from the true trailblazers. Setting her …