The National Cold War Center in Blytheville will celebrate Cold War Week the first week of November. Activities include the opening of an exhibit about dancer Martha Graham and a conversation with Pavel Palazhchenko, chief English interpreter for former Soviet …
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The Little Rock Touchdown Club welcomed former Notre Dame Heisman Trophy winner Tim Brown Monday afternoon ahead of the Fighting Irish’s much-anticipated game with Arkansas on Saturday. Brown won college football’s top award in 1987 and was later drafted in …
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Hill Country: Congressman Working to Preserve Arkansas’ Wide Open Spaces
by Dwain Hebdaby Dwain HebdaIt has been a decade since Rep. French Hill traded a successful corporate career in the Natural State for the jungles of Washington, D.C., politics, and the ninth-generation Arkansan has made the time count. Representing the Second District since 2015, …
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Riding the Wave: Sen. Tom Cotton Talks Reelection Bid, Conservative Mandate
by Dwain Hebdaby Dwain HebdaThere was a time during U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton’s political career when it might have felt good to stand down. Cotton’s time in Washington has paralleled the most divisive in decades, only a brief period of which did Republicans seem …
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Wait-and-See Mode: State Economists Not Sure What to Expect from 2025
by Doug Criseby Doug CriseThere is a little bit of good news and a little bit of bad news in forecasting Arkansas’ economic outlook for 2025. As for any sweeping changes from the federal level impacting the state, get comfortable. There simply has not …
Regardless of one’s political leanings, an intellectually honest assessment of Donald. J. Trump’s victory on Nov. 5 reveals it as nothing short of the most sensational political comeback in American history. The first split-term presidency since Grover Cleveland (1885-1889, 1893-1897), …
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Former Governor to Lend Experience to Students at U of A Law School
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffLaw school should be challenging; the difficulty is part of success, former Gov. Asa Hutchinson told first-year students during his keynote speech at the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville, where he graduated in 1975. Hutchinson will join …
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First Lady Bobblehead Series & More Unveiled for Presidents Day
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffIn celebration of President’s Day, the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum has unveiled three new series of presidential bobbleheads: the first series of First Lady Bobbleheads featuring 15 first ladies, a Resolute Desk series featuring 11 presidents, and …
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New Ownership Looks to Take Central Flying Service to Greater Heights
by Dwain Hebdaby Dwain HebdaHerb Knight, COO of Central Flying Service (Photos by DeWaine Duncan) Arkansans are a welcoming lot, but when it was announced last year that Central Flying Service was changing hands after 82 years of family ownership, the news raised …
Every now and then in our short lives, we encounter an establishment that impacts us so dearly, we remember it for decades to come, even long after that establishment is gone. Coy’s Steak House, formerly of Hot Springs, is a …
