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Connect the DotsNews
July 14, 2025

Our rural health crisis is getting worse. It’s hitting moms the hardest.

We've covered Arkansas's rural health care crisis pretty extensively at For AR People. If you're just now hearing of it, the crisis is so bad that it threatens the survival…
LegislationNews
July 9, 2025

Lawmakers press forward on Delta-8 ban

On Tuesday the Arkansas House Rules Committee convened to discuss the state’s controversial ban on Delta-8 and other hemp-derived THC products. The meeting follows a recent federal court ruling that…
News
June 24, 2025

Three Years After Dobbs, Arkansas Families Still Suffer

Three years ago today, the Supreme Court took away federal protections for the right to receive abortions  in Dobbs v. Jackson.  This decision represented a huge setback to Americans who…
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May 21, 2025

“One Kid Hungry is One Kid Too Many”: The Scope of School Lunch Debt in Arkansas

A few weeks ago, the Little Rock School District, City of Little Rock, and Little Rock Food Commission asked the community for donations to wipe out $175,000 of food debt…

Sarah Huckabee Sanders had a lot to say about women empowerment in this tweet but the truth is this: Arkansas is one of the most DANGEROUS states to be a women.

In fact, the states that have the highest maternal mortality rates are “Republican-led” states. So what is she talking…

Despite decades of evidence it won't work, corrections officials will spend $50K to drill two wells on Franklin Co. prison site. Their backup plans seem even worse, somehow. https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2025/06/27/board-of-corrections-to-spend-50000-on-two-test-wells-on-franklin-county-prison-site

Remember, months ago, she told you this site had already been studied extensively by teams of experts who determined it to be “the best place in the state” for a mega prison.

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