shots into arms, and america is a world leader in the vaccine distribution, and there s big news today from moderna which has began testing vaccines on children from babies to preteens. the news so many parents have been waiting for. but and this is important, we are at a critical juncture, and i know, i know, i know you have heard this a million times before, still, how we handle the next few weeks could either propel us back to normality by midsummer or we could end up like europe, gripped by what the french president called today a third wave. italy has returned to lockdowns. more infectious variants have become the dominant strains there and we are in a race against time before they become the dominant strains here. across europe the vaccine rollout has been sluggish and now there are concerned about the astrazeneca vaccine which is widely used there. a wave of european countries hitting pause on the vaccine because of concerns over dozens of cases of blood clots out of
Molly Rawn, CEO of Experience Fayetteville (Beth Hall)
A major bike race organizer’s pullout from next year’s world cyclocross championships in Fayetteville made headlines as an example of the backlash Arkansas faces because of new legislation on transgender minors. (See Transgender Laws Draw a Hot Spotlight).
The race director, Brooks Watts, who also withdrew from another Fayetteville race, this year’s UCI World Cup, prominently denounced the legislation on social media. He aimed particular outrage at Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s signing of a bill outlawing certain health treatments for transgender youth.
But Molly Rawn, CEO of Experience Fayetteville, the city’s regional tourism bureau that’s putting on the cyclocross championships, said local issues predating the legislation had contributed to a decision to cut ties with Watts’ company, Parkven Productions, before his April 21 state
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No one could accuse Thomas Mars, former head of the Arkansas State Police and former general counsel for Walmart, of being a “snowflake.”
It would be just as hard to accuse him of being particularly partisan. Early in his career, Mars worked for Asa Hutchinson when our governor was U.S. attorney, but he went on to work for Hillary Clinton at the Rose Law Firm. Later, Mars served as Gov. Mike Huckabee’s personal lawyer before becoming Huckabee’s choice to head the State Police. While at Walmart, Mars was made an executive vice president and chief administrative officer.