The catfish industry is the largest component of aquaculture in the United States and a significant industry in Arkansas. In fact, Arkansas catfish farmers contributed $19.5 million to Arkansas’s agricultural economy in 2021. That’s up 17% from the previous year.
Anyone researching their familiar relationship to the Yocham family in Northern Arkansas, or Southwest Missouri will find plenty of good biographical information about our Yocham patriarchs, James (also known as Jake, and Jacob), and his brothers, Solomon, and Jesse. Whatever else they might have been, they were not dull, or boring.
Little Rock - Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge joined 22 attorneys general in filing a lawsuit today against the Biden Administration for withholding school lunch program funding from schools that fail to adopt the Administration’s new guidance on gender identity and sexual orientation.
Little Rock – Forge Institute, a leader in cyber workforce development and other cyberdefense related services, today named U.S. Marine Corps veteran Tony Loukota as Training Manager.
Two weeks ago, I passed the gavel to my successor as chair of the National Governors Association, and today I’d like to talk about my year as leader of the NGA and the opportunity to work with other governors on some of our nation’s biggest challenges.
Little Rock – August marks the nationally-celebrated ABLE to Save Month where those involved in ABLE Savings Plans across the country highlight the value and importance these plans bring to people living with disabilities.
On Tuesday, 19 July, the Bull Shoals City Council met 6:30 p.m. to discuss condemnation updates, street paving, annexation, street parking. Alderman Joey Grede, David McBee, Daryl Lindman, Chuck Kinler, along with Tina Bailey, Recorder and David Nixon, Mayor were in attendance.
Mountain View – The Arkansas State Fiddle and Banjo Championships return to the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View on Saturday, August 6. The event features two state championships in one day – banjo players will compete in the morning and fiddle players will compete in the afternoon.
The thrill of seeing the lower Big Piney with Jim Barr and Charlie Curran made me remember days from another time. But everything about a river changes, and the changes when men are involved are never good. It is funny how I talk about the days of my boyhood when the