The Conductor and the Conway Foundation recently partnered with the Kauffman Foundation to host the Arkansas Entrepreneurial Policy Summit. The summit, which took place at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute April 27-29, was held to address specific needs of entrepreneurs in the…
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UALR Bowen School of Law Receives $1M from Walmart for Court Project
by Tina Medlockby Tina MedlockThe UA Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law has received a $1 million grant from Walmart, Inc. The grant will fund a Court Observation Project through Bowen’s new Center for Racial Justice and Criminal Justice Reform. The project will introduce a state-wide court…
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Arkansas State University to Host Agribusiness Conference in February
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffArkansas State University’s annual Agribusiness Conference this year will celebrate its 25th year of providing timely information and agricultural policy education to farmers, agribusiness professionals, students and educators across the Mid-South. The 2019 conference, on Wednesday, Feb. 13, will focus…
by Caleb Talley Let’s go ahead and get this out of the way: I’m an ardent supporter of one’s right to own a gun – be it a pistol, shotgun, AR-15 or a musket. But in the wake of such preventable…
I took one of my employees to lunch several months ago. He spent from age 20 through his 27th birthday in solitary confinement. I asked him over our meal, “What was it like to be alone for that long?” Initially…