At the time of the Challenger accident in January of 1986, I was working for NASA at the Kennedy Space Center. I witnessed the explosion from a few miles away. We lost seven souls that day and set the space…
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New Regulations Aimed at Helping Women-Owned Businesses Land Federal Contracts
by Tyler Haleby Tyler HaleThe U.S. Small Business Administration has established new regulations for the Women-Owned Small Business Federal Contracting Program to help small businesses gain certification in order to compete for procurement programs. The federal agency announced that it is amending its timeline…
The third annual Arkansas Drone/Unmanned Aircraft Systems Summit will take place Tuesday, March 12, with events in Fayetteville and Little Rock. Registration is still open. Drone experts will cover topics such as Federal Aviation Administration compliance, homeland security regulations, how…
A public hearing on proposed dicamba regulations on Feb. 20 looks like it will be a lively one based on the number of comments the Arkansas Agriculture Department has received so far. Since opening up the comment process in early…
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Public Comment Period and Hearing Set for Dicamba Regulations
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffA 30-day public comment period and a public hearing date has been set for proposed regulations that allow the use of dicamba in Arkansas on soybean and cotton varieties resistant to dicamba. Written public comments will be accepted from Jan.…
As American Trucking Associations President and CEO Bill Graves and others have discussed, a recent New York Times opinion column titled, “The Trucks are Killing Us,” was published without anyone properly vetting the statements contained in it. Despite the author’s implied…