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From left: Disability advocate Paige McCammon addresses a rally at the Arkansas Capitol urging Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders to clear the waitlist for supportive living services while Arkansas Support Network CEO Syard Evans, Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Colt Shelby and disability advocate Blake Landers listen on Sept. 16, 2026. (Photo by Tess Vrbin/Arkansas Advocate)
GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
By Tess Vrbin
Arkansas will provide additional support to children with disabilities who have been waiting for services, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Tuesday, in response to growing demands from families for a special legislative session to address the issue.
Billionaire philanthropist Alice Walton addresses the crowd of a groundbreaking ceremony for the AWSOM Whole Health Campus in Bentonville on Sept. 17, 2026 as Mercy CEO Steve Mackin (left) and John Tyson, board chairman of Tyson Foods, listen. (Photo by Antoinette Grajeda/Arkansas Advocate)
GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
By Antoinette Grajeda
A new Bentonville healthcare campus backed by billionaire philanthropist Alice Walton will increase Arkansans’ access to specialty care and a “whole person” approach to medicine, she said at a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday.
Exterior of the Richard Sheppard Arnold Federal Courthouse in downtown Little Rock. (Photo by John Sykes/Arkansas Advocate)
GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
By Andrew DeMillo
Entergy Arkansas is dropping the lawsuit it filed over a newspaper publishing details about a West Memphis data center agreement that came from documents the utility said were released in error by state regulators.
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