Previous AMP University articles have stressed the importance of taking part in local politics because of the direct effect it has on your life, and the proportionate power your voice can have in a political landscape where you are one…
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Omar Atiq, MD, FACP, is a gentle giant of Arkansas’s health care industry. His calm demeanor and unhurried, deliberate way of speaking belie his imposing list of titles and achievements. Atiq is a professor of medicine at the UAMS Winthrop…
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Governor Hutchinson Releases Arkansas School Safety Commission Report
Governor Asa Hutchinson announced yesterday, August 2, the release of the 2022 Arkansas School Safety Commission interim report. Established by Governor Hutchinson in the wake of the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, the commission published a final report…
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Understanding the Ballot: Less Than 100 Days Until AR General Election Day
As of August 1, 2022, the Arkansas General Election is now 100 days away. If you’re an American citizen and Arkansas resident, it’s your civic duty to vote for the candidates and measures that you think will benefit your community.…
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Zapier’s 11 Tech Tools to Help You Through A Recession
With major concerns over inflation and gas prices still not abating and the threat of a recession looming, it would be wise to figure out what you can do to prepare your business for whatever may come by re-evaluating current…
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AMP University: Dry Counties and Blue Laws, Part Two
Last week, we discussed the history of dry counties and blue laws in Arkansas, dating all the way back to its earliest days as a state. Though Prohibition ended nearly a century ago, Arkansas remains the driest state in the…
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AMP University: Dry Counties and Blue Laws, Part One
As the United States is a union of separate states, rather than one monolithic entity, very few things are uniform across the whole nation. As if that weren’t enough, many things are not uniform across individual states either, and are…
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James Webb Telescope to Reveal its First Full Color Images of Space
At 5 p.m. EDT (4 p.m. CDT), President Biden will be releasing the first image from the James Webb Space Telescope. The next day, NASA, in partnership with the European Space Agency and Canadian Space Agency, will release more full-color…
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AMP University: The Native American Legacy of the Natural State
When Hernando de Soto became the first European explorer to reach what we now call the Natural State in 1541, he was disappointed not to find any great civilizations like the Aztecs or Incas, ripe with gold and glory to…
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Hutchinson Calls Special Session to Discuss Budget Surplus
On April 5, following a recent report on the Arkansas State government’s budget surplus, Governor Asa Hutchinson announced that he would be calling a special session of the state legislature to address the 1.6 billion in extra revenue. “June revenue…