University of Arkansas engineering researchers will be given the opportunity to strengthen its national silicon carbide research efforts and launch a fabrication facility on campus with a recently released $17.87 million grant given by the National Science Foundation.
Two Arkansas legislators have filed vaccine-related bills after mandates enforced by the Biden administration have driven business with over 100 employees to require its employees to show proof of it.
A recent WalletHub report reveals that Arkansas is ranked among the states with the lowest remaining COVID-19-related restrictions and most-effective vaccine distribution figures. The data indicates that the U.S. has progressed with vaccine distributions and has seen an increasing amount of business re-openings.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson confirmed that Arkansas will submit its plan for a Medicaid expansion overhaul to the Biden administration next month on July 14. The state hopes to receive approval by November or December of this year.
Various communities across Arkansas plan to celebrate June Nineteenth in honor of enslaved African Americans who learned they were the last to be freed on June 19, 1865.
President Joe Biden recently affirmed his plan to raise taxes on upper-class citizens in his “American Families Plan” to help struggling families lessen the country’s income gap.
More than two dozen senators stand in favor of shutting down the U.S Guantánamo Bay military prison and rehoming its 40 remaining prisoners, accusing the facility of abusing human rights, damaging the country’s reputation and fueling anti-Muslim beliefs.
Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and John Boozman (R-Arkansas) presented the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technology for Health Act (CONNECT), pushing forth efforts to reform and improve telehealth services.
University of Arkansas recognized its professor Mary Parler, for her contributions made to the school’s Ozark culture studies and preservation effort, according to a press release.
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge sent in a letter to the Arkansas Public Service Commission, soliciting an investigation of rising gas and electric bills in the area amid severe winter weather conditions in the area.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson addressed the conditions of the state in a weekly address, which was one of over a dozen to be severely impacted by this year’s snowstorms, suffering unusual cold temperatures and staggering energy demands all across.