Connections: Cobblestone Farms to host community dinner
Fayetteville nonprofit Cobblestone Farms will host its largest annual fundraiser, Cultivating Community Dinner, from 6 to 10 p.m. Sept. 18 at Barn at the Springs in Springdale, according to a…
UA receives multiple Land of Opportunity campaign donations
University of Arkansas alumni recently contributed $225,000 to the Land of Opportunity Scholarship campaign. As of July 31, the campaign had raised 66% of its goal in 25% of the…
NRF: Retail sales up 6.81% in August from a year ago
Back-to-school shopping and purchases made to get ahead of potential tariff impacts pushed retail spending up 6.81% in August compared with August 2024, according to the National Retail Federation Retail…
Right-Wing Fanatics Are Weaponizing America’s Anti-Discrimination Agency
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Dylan Bringuel isn’t sure what’s worse: enduring what a…
Welcome to the New Era of Covid Vaccine Tourism
Mother Jones illustration; Unsplash Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In 2021, as the first…
Can We Feed 10 Billion People Without Destroying the Planet in the Process?
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‘A true champion for working families’: Property workers union builds up support for Eileen Higgins
Miami-Dade Commissioner Eileen Higgins has stood by working families in South Florida, according to a union representing them that is continuing supporting her too. SEIU 32BJ, which represents more than…
Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics — 9.15.25
Good Monday morning. Longtime Florida TaxWatch leader Dominic Calabro was one of three leaders honored this year with the Florida Press Association’s Lifetime Membership Award. Presented at the association’s annual…
Rep. Michael McCaul will retire from Congress, but GOP hawk also worries about World War 3 after Russian escalation
Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, one of the GOP’s most prominent foreign affairs hawks, announced he’d retire on Sunday while warning that, with Russia’s escalation of its invasion of Ukraine,…