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Record COVID cases are transforming a long-standing problem in Arkansas — the state's nursing shortage — into a crisis.

Once upon a time you couldn't find a hot dog in downtown Little Rock. Now wiener joints are proliferating — first the announcement that Original Hot Dog Factory would open its first Arkansas outlet at 14th and Main streets, then the opening of Lea Lea's Gourmet Dogs & Daiquiris.

Once upon a time you couldn't find a hot dog in downtown Little Rock. Now wiener joints are proliferating — first the announcement that Original Hot Dog Factory would open its first Arkansas outlet at 14th and Main streets, then the opening of Lea Lea's Gourmet Dogs & Daiquiris.

The delta strain of the coronavirus has sickened more children and challenged Arkansas Children's in Little Rock and Children's Hospital Northwest.

Send Long ago I worked with a reporter who routinely suggested potential news stories without any idea of whether they were factual. His setup — “Wouldn’t it be a great story if …” — became a newsroom punchline. I have no reason to believe that he actually fabricated any articles, but his approach to journalism made me nervous. I have never known another reporter who did that. I was reminded of that dude as I edited Senior Editor Mark Friedman’s two-part story about the 2015 death of 20-year-old Luke Baker in a Jefferson County hunting lodge and the mise...