Data reported Tuesday by the Arkansas Department of Health continued to indicate a slowdown in the spread of the coronavirus even as the number of virus patients on ventilators rose to a new high for the third day in a row.
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Every morning, Justin Acri flips a switch and feels the pulse of Arkansas. For three hours in the prime mid-morning rotation at 103.7 The Buzz, Acri and sidekick Wess Moore hold court with listeners on The Zone radio talk show.
One of the joys of the six years I spent on the Arkansas Humanities Council was getting to know top-notch scholars. Two of the best with whom I served were Cherisse Jones-Branch, a history professor at Arkansas State University, and Ken Barnes, who recently retired as a history professor at the University of Central Arkansas.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) The University of Arkansas' governing board voted Wednesday to require masks on its campuses, as dozens of school districts imposed their own mandates following a judge's decision to block the state's mask mandate ban.