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After missing a year onstage because of the pandemic, Ballet Arkansas’ company and community cast members are eager and excited to once again perform “The Nutcracker” live this weekend at Little Rock’s Robinson Center Performance Hall. ....
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When Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson let a new congressional election map become law last week without his signature, much of the talk across the state concerned ....
In a statement, Hutchinson emphasized that this “right of conscience” law does not allow health-care workers to deny anyone general health service because federal laws already prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, sex, gender, and national origin. According to opponents, types of health care that could be cut off include maintaining hormone treatments for transgender patients needing inpatient care for an infection, as well as grief counseling for a same-sex couple. They’ve also said the law could be used to refuse to fill prescriptions for birth control or to override patient directives on end-of-life care. “There is no sugarcoating this: this bill is another brazen attempt to make it easier to discriminate against people and deny Arkansans the health care services they need,” ACLU of Arkansas executive director Holly Dickson said in a statement. The ACLU did not say whether it planned any legal action to try to block the law before it takes effect. ....