He founded his paper, The Leader, in 1987. Under his leadership and with help from his children, the twice-a-week paper has covered north Pulaski County and Lonoke and White counties ever since.
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I picked up a prescription at my regular pharmacy early last month, and my medicine and receipt came with an extra bag of goodies: hand sanitizer, sanitizer wipes, disposable masks and even a nice cloth mask. A year earlier, I would have felt like I won the lottery.
My son stopped by the house, saw the swag on the kitchen table and said he got the same when he went to the same pharmacy for his COVID-19 vaccine.
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Representatives of a state agency came by the office a couple of weeks ago, and they too left me with pocket-sized bottles of hand sanitizer. It didn’t seem like an attempt to influence me; as with the pharmacy, it seemed like an attempt to get rid of an oversupply. I am still sanitizing my hands regularly, as I did for years before COVID, but I’m not sure I’ll live long enough to use up all the bottles of clear goo that have inexplica
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In last Monday’s Executive Q&A feature, Mark Hayes, executive director of the Arkansas Municipal League, cited technology particularly cybersecurity and the threat of cybercrimes like ransomware as the biggest challenge facing cities around the state.
On the day that issue landed on subscribers’ desks, the U.S. Department of Justice announced a thrilling new weapon in the war on hackers: better hackers. The DOJ, with a warrant from a federal magistrate judge in the Northern District of California, infiltrated a cryptocurrency “wallet” and seized 63.7 of the 75 bitcoins that Colonial Pipeline of Alpharetta, Georgia, had paid last month to the cybercriminals who had shut down the computer systems that controlled its vast fuel pipe network. (The dollar value of the bitcoins had fallen in the interim.)
Send The Texarkana Regional Airport will hold a groundbreaking June 12 for a $36 million, 37,000-SF terminal as it prepares for a post-COVID-19 future.
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