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23 LITTLE ROCK 2050
Gazing into the crystal ball at the future of Central Arkansas, from health care to dining to infrastructure and beyond.
32 TOAST OF THE TOWN Arkansas distilleries and breweries go all in on seltzer and spirits. Plus, the results of our annual poll on bars, beers and booze.
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MARK SPITZER, BARD OF GARKANSAS A Q&A WITH THE RENOWNED EXPERT ON FUGLY FISH.
You churn out books so quickly. What’s your latest? My latest is “In Search of Monster Fish.” Basically this was more of an internationally focused fish book. I go to exotic countries, to the Amazon, and fish for piranha and snakeheads. I go to Europe and fish for giant eels. I fish for sharks, carp, barracuda, in France, Italy and around Africa. I also do some fishing here in Arkansas for gar. The book looks AGE: 55 at solutions for fisheries and at general environmental problems we have. FROM: Iowa City, Iowa Can you explain your attraction to gross Gar, eels, giant carp and other things? FAVORITE FISH TO EAT: Piranha sub-aquatic misfits deserve our attenI’ve always been really interested in the tion, Spitzer said, because of what they underdog fish, the fish in the water that have to tell us about the state of our nobody wants to deal with, that people waterways and the planet as a whole. He’s written 30 books on the think are monstrous. The reject fish, the loser fish, they just always subject. have really interested me. And I’ve always been interested in the idea Your extreme fishing obsession landed you on an early episode of of monsters. Why do we create such things? “River Monsters.” How did that happen? When I started with gar, my idea was they have this reputation based Jeremy Wade [the show host] wrote to me before anyone knew who on false knowledge, hearsay and rumors. I wanted people to know they he was and said he wanted to do a documentary on alligator gar. “Do are not destructive, they aren’t harmful, they don’t attack humans. you want to help?” I said yes. I didn’t hear from him for eight years, And I’m trying to do this with other fish, to show there’s nothing to then I got an email from Animal Planet that Jeremy was going alligator be afraid of. And in studying them, we can find solutions to our own gar fishing in Texas, and could I come along and bring bait? They asked environmental problems. me what my daily fee was, and I said $100. We went out there and You’ve been able to combine your passions for writing and fishing in caught all sorts of gar and had a blast. a unique way. How did that come about? You were recently featured on “Arts & Letters Radio” to talk about I’ve been fishing longer than I’ve been writing. I’ve been pulling these your book “Beautiful Grotesque Fish of the West,” and specifically ugly fish out of creeks since I was 6 years old. My mother encouraged eels. What’s the deal with eels? me that I could do whatever I wanted. I was always writing stories and The theme of the new radio program is a phantom in your own backfound I was able to write about what I liked, to think about what I liked yard. They’re this fish that’s here, but hardly anybody ever sees them. to think about with monstrous fish. It’s a strange niche. I’m not a scientist, They’re very, very rarely ever caught. So I explore that mystery of why I’m not a biologist, but I do read the science, I do translate it for people. they’re so ghost-like. So who is the audience for your books? There are also all the other mysteries of eels. Writers have been The readers are people who have some higher education in literally dissecting eels since Aristotle. Even Freud, when he was a their background and they’re interested in the environment and graduate student at the University of Vienna, his study was eels. He sustainability. I would classify them as anglers, hikers, outdoorsy was trying to find their testicles and failed, so he went on to found people. I get a lot of people who pick my book up because they’re modern psychoanalysis. interested in the fish, they don’t know they’re going to be getting Eels are the most mysterious fish because at a certain time they all environmental messages. leave inland places and go out to the Sargasso Sea to spawn. They are If you could fish anywhere, where would it be? able to scale dams and locks and go straight up concrete embankArkansas has the best fishing out of anywhere in the world. I’m just ments. We can’t figure out where they spawn, we can’t figure out what sort of biased. I love the fish in my home state. We have a really wild calls them back to go spawning. The females will enter the continent, primitive fishery here, a world-class fishery that a lot of people don’t go upstream for 1,000 miles, stay 20 to 40 years and then get some know about. We have 8-foot alligator gar in these rivers, catfish that signal, some text, that they all have to leave. Then they all migrate weigh over 100 pounds, Asian carp that weigh over 100 pounds. together, tens of thousands of eels come down out of the freshwater We’ve got snakeheads. They’re an invasive species, but people and meet the guys who are waiting in the saltwater for them, and then are having a lot of fun catching them. So this is a really colorful, they all scoot off to the Sargasso Sea. We’ve tried tracking devices and interesting, diverse fishery here in Arkansas. The best thing is, you they don’t seem to work, but we’re getting closer. don’t have to travel thousands of miles to get there. Some people travel the world seeking beauty. For Mark Spitzer, a writing professor at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, it’s the chance to reel in what he calls the “demonized grotesques” that lures him across oceans and continents. Slimy, obscure, humongous, hideous; these are the traits he’s looking for when he wets a line. Spitzer has visited 20 countries to pull in monstrosities that would have most of us throwing our rods into the water and running away, screaming.
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ARKANSAS CELEBRITIES ON CAMEO SURPRISE A LOVED ONE WITH A VIDEO MESSAGE FROM A FAMOUS ARKANSAN. BY RHETT BRINKLEY If you’ve ever wanted to give someone a serenaded happy birthday from Kris Allen or workout advice from John Daly, you can do that on Cameo, a personalized video sharing website launched in 2017. Cameo also offers an option for businesses to hire guest speakers for marketing campaigns and events, or for custom employee gifts, shout-outs or sales content. We rounded up some Arkansas celebrities who can make Cameos in your or your loved ones’ lives.
Eric Musselman, head coach, Arkansas Razorbacks men’s basketball Personal Cameo $100 For business $700 Eric Musselman brings the kind of energy to his Cameo calls that he’s known for on the court, and tells a recent Cameo client starting a new job to bring the “Four E’s” to the job every day: Effort, energy, enthusiasm and execution. He’ll sing you happy birthday, too. Arkansas Bushman, TikTok/YouTube comedian Personal Cameo $15 For business $105 Have you ever been strolling down the sidewalk in the River Market District only to have a bush in a planter suddenly start flailing about and screaming at you? If not, be warned. The Arkansas Bushman has accumulated 1.5 million TikTok followers by dressing up as a plant and scaring the bejesus out of unassuming downtown commuters. He has a YouTube channel where you can probably see someone you know dropping their coffee or ice cream cone after a chance encounter with the prankster shrub. Nolan Richardson, head coach, Arkansas Razorbacks men’s basketball (1985-2002) Personal Cameo $100 For business $1,000 Some people have requested #fathersday Cameos from Nolan Richardson, who coached the Razorback basketball team to its only national championship in 1994. One reviewer on the website said, “He even fulfilled my request that we get a glimpse of some of his farm animals, since I knew that my daughters would love it.”
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Ne-Yo, singer-songwriter Personal Cameo $325 For business $1,500 Camden native Ne-Yo recently recorded a Cameo thanking nominees for dental assistants of the year, “For your hard work keeping everybody safe and smiling through the pandemic.” Suzanne Le Bach, model, actress Personal Cameo $259 For business $400 Miss Hawaiian Tropic International 1st runner up (2004) Suzanne Le Bach, native of Fort Smith, married to Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach, is offering Cameos. Le Bach has given happy birthday Cameos and recently offered a sincere #peptalk to a fan who wanted to lose 8 pounds. Houston Nutt, Arkansas Razorback football coach (1998-2007) Personal Cameo $50 For business $350 Every Houston Nutt Cameo available to watch without an account is birthday-oriented, but in each one Nutt takes some time to talk about the current Razorback season, the following game on the schedule and its historical significance. He correctly predicted that we’d beat Texas A&M in a birthday message to a fan. John Daly, professional golfer Personal Cameo $750 For business $6,500 PGA Champion John Daly’s Cameo profile refers to him as the “Grip It & Rip It King” and his rugged style is on full display. A user asked him for a #peptalk on working out and Daly summed it up with, “If you do the opposite of me, you will be great.”
Kris Allen, singer-songwriter, winner “American Idol” (2009) Personal Cameo $50 For business $350 Kris Allen will sing you happy birthday or maybe help with your homework, according to his introductory video on Cameo’s website. He recently congratulated someone on Cameo for writing a new book and wrote them a song about it. “You wrote a book, you wrote a book/ I can’t imagine just what it took/probably some time/lots and lots of words/yeah, you wrote a book … ” OTHER ARKANSANS OFFERING CAMEOS: Sidney Moncrief, Razorback basketball great, Milwaukee Buck, Naismith Memorial Hall of Famer Personal Cameo $67 For business $420 Darren McFadden, Razorback running back, NFL running back (Oakland Raiders, Dallas Cowboys) Personal Cameo $100 For business $700 Daniel Gafford, Razorback basketball, NBA center (Washington Wizards) Personal Cameo $35 For business $250 Current Razorback Men’s Basketball players: Davonte “Devo” Davis, Jaylin Williams, Chris Lykes, Kamani Johnson
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Vax up, mask up and support your local creatives however you can. As more and more artists — and local venues — move toward requiring proof of vaccination, make sure you have that card ready to go. Gathering safely these days is hard; be on the lookout for policy changes or date changes, and handle them with all the grace you can summon.
KRONOS QUARTET: ‘A THOUSAND THOUGHTS’ SATURDAY 11/13-SUNDAY 11/14. THE MOMENTARY, BENTONVILLE. 8 P.M. SAT., 3 P.M. SUN. $29.
In this “live documentary” at the Momentary’s RØDE House, biography meets chamber music meets film. The Kronos Quartet, a San Francisco-based string quartet whose acclaim has held steady for 45 years regardless of who has occupied its rotating roster, performs in front of a projection screen that plays archival footage and interviews from the likes of Philip Glass, Tanya Tagaq, Steve Reich, Wu Man and Terry Riley as filmmaker Sam Green tells the story of the Kronos Quartet’s music — and the historical backdrop against which it’s been performed. Over the course of 80 minutes, Green and fellow filmmaker Joe Bini give a portrait of late 20th and early 21st century music, and why it’s so crucial for a society to listen closely to its musicmakers. Proof of COVID-19 vaccination or proof of a negative COVID-19 test within 72 hours is required for ages 2 and up, and you’ll find more detail on that policy, plus a link to tickets, at themomentary.org.
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FRIDAY 11/19. VISIBLE FROM NORTH AMERICA. MIDNIGHT-6 A.M. FREE. Schedule time for a quick nap the afternoon of Thursday, Nov. 18, if you can. Later that night, a near-total lunar eclipse will be visible from North America, and it promises to be a strange and lovely sight — a so-called “Frosty Half-Blood Moon” eclipse, in which 97% of the moon will slip behind the Earth and out of the Sun’s rays, causing it to appear a ruddy red. You’ll be able to see it with the naked eye, but consider breaking out your set of binoculars or borrowing a telescope from the Central Arkansas Library; they’re available in limited numbers but come with a sturdy base and an instruction manual that makes it easy even for novices to operate. As seen from Little Rock, the “Frosty Moon” eclipse will begin reddening around 1:18 a.m. and will continue to deepen into the wee hours of Friday morning, reaching its “peak” at 3:02 a.m., when the moon is closest to the center of Earth’s shadow. (Eclipse-savvy folks know these things come in pairs, but unless your holiday travel plans involve hopping down to Antarctica, you won’t be able to see this lunar eclipse’s “partner” eclipse on Dec. 4.) Visit timeanddate.com/eclipse for more detail.
ARKANSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: BEETHOVEN & BLUE JEANS SATURDAY 11/6-SUNDAY 11/7. ROBINSON CENTER. 7:30 P.M. SAT., 3 P.M. SUN. $21-$77.
Even before the pandemic came along and posited that we could do business in our pajamas as effectively as we could in heels and suits, symphonies everywhere were ahead of the curve at least once a year with programs like “Beethoven & Blue Jeans,” shuffling off sartorial convention in favor of comfort. This year’s return to the format also returns to the concert hall, with gems from the big guys: Beethoven, Ravel and Brahms. Conducting is Roderick Cox (pictured), a George Solti Award-winning maestro whose work to supply young musicians of color with scholarships for instruments and study will be featured in a new documentary called “Conducting Life.” Also on the program: a highly decorated pianist named Conrad Tao, whose breakneck schedule of orchestral cameos means he’s worked with a good chunk of America’s major orchestras, and whose collaboration with tap dancer Caleb Teicher on Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” you should track down on YouTube immediately. Oh, and Maestro Cox will be giving a talk at a virtual brown bag lunch Thursday, Nov. 4. Stay tuned to arkansassymphony.org and to the symphony’s social media for details. 14 NOVEMBER 2021
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Around three minutes into Ayron Jones’ “Mercy,” it starts to feel like something’s about to break. Jones’ voice is at the top of its formidable range, and the late-Michael Jackson-era swerve in his vocal delivery gives way to a gritty shriek, his guitar shredding the only thing in the room fiercer than that voice, and it’s suddenly crystal clear why this dude opens for Guns ‘N’ Roses. Icing on the cake: his band clearly got the memo, taking Jones’ alternately delicate and unhinged phrases and heating them to a boiling point. If you miss church this particular Sunday in November, Jones’ show at Stickyz might be an apt substitute. St. Louis-based rock quartet Hounds opens the show.
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SATURDAY 11/6. FOUR QUARTER BAR. 9 P.M. $8. Whether you spent your pandemic walking the Big Dam Bridge or navigating the Big Dam Instacart or battling the Big Dam Existential Dread, chances are it’s been a while since you shook your ass to a horn-y cover of Ginuwine’s “Pony.” This will fix that. Don’t sleep on the bar food, either.
KORTO MOMOLU: THE FREEDOM COLLECTION
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SATURDAY 11/13. 1201 CENTER ST. 4 P.M. $50. Next time you’re out and about in Little Rock and think to yourself, “Say, that person over there looks like Liberian-born ‘Project Runway’ all-star fashion designer Korto Momolu,” and then dismiss the thought out of hand, look twice. Momolu — who converted her reality TV show fame into a career, sewing her ethos into garments like she did with Women Grow, an organization that cultivates women leaders in the cannabis industry — calls Little Rock home. So on this November afternoon, the same day deemed Korto Momolu Day by the city of Little Rock in 2008, Momolu’s giving a sneak peek of her Fall/Winter ’21 Freedom Collection in a chic storefront in the SoMa neighborhood. All seating is front row, preshow cocktails begin at 3:30 p.m. and a pop-up reception takes place immediately after the show. Find tickets at Eventbrite by searching “Korto.”
‘AN UNBROKEN CIRCLE’: TIMOTHY HURSLEY, JAMES MATTHEWS, PETER SCHEIDT THROUGH 1/23/2022. TRINITY GALLERY, HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM. FREE.
This collection of three Arkansas artists — photographer Timothy Hursley, sculptor/ woodworker Peter Scheidt and documentarian/textile artist James Matthews — takes its name from the old gospel tune, “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?” and, Curator of Exhibits Carey Voss said in a video livestreamed from the exhibit’s opening night, from the idea of transformation. Seemingly disparate in terms of technique, all three artists, Voss said, “are completing that circle where they engage with materials that have been cast off or left for dead, in a way.” That goes for Matthews’ found object quilts, Scheidt’s furniture sculptures and Hursley’s haunting prints. “Abandoned objects,” a press release states, “are reborn through relationships of interdependence: between those who originally made a thing and the artist who recognizes potential for alteration where others see only trash. The circle is completed when the viewer interprets the item anew.” Catch it through January 2022, and keep an eye on the museum’s YouTube channel for some exposition from the museum’s staff.
HARRY STYLES
WEDNESDAY 11/24. SIMMONS BANK ARENA. 9:30 P.M. $40-$170. When Simmons Bank Arena announced that onetime One Direction heartthrob Harry Styles had up and added a surprise stop in North Little Rock at the tail end of his “Love on Tour” spree, the Harry Styles internet collectively cried, “What?” Depending on how much of a Stylophile you are, your “what?!” might have contained any number of inflections — euphoria, bewilderment. The Sun newspaper scratched its head over the choice, saying “It’s unclear why the tour organizers selected Little Rock to finish off the singer’s nationwide tour.” (I’m choosing to believe that a member of Harry Styles’ management had the inside tip that he’d get fed properly here during the holiday; somebody take this dude to Lassis Inn or El Sur while he’s here, and send him home with a big loaf of Boulevard’s eight-grain bread?) His endeavors are poppin’: Styles has narrated a bedtime story on the Calm app. He launched a website at the domain doyouknowwhoyouare.com that generates randomized words of positivity. Stevie Nicks called him the son she never had. When the Arkansas Times went to press, Styles, the first man to appear solo on a cover of Vogue, had yet to respond after Billy Porter reminded the world that it was he (and not Styles) who “changed the whole game” in favor of a less binary approach to wearing dresses, skirts and flowing silhouettes. Expect from the UK singer at the stadium show: big pop energy, suave choreography and generous Thanksgiving Eve helpings of Styles’ album “Fine Line.” (And perhaps dresses, skirts and flowing silhouettes.) ARKANSASTIMES.COM
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RED AND THE REVELERS
11/12. FOUR QUARTER BAR. 10 P.M. Fingers crossed we stay the course to postpandemic safety, because Greg “Red” Padilla’s “Rainy Day Suggestion” (hint: the suggestion is to smoke weed) isn’t the kind of song that translates the same way over a livestream. It’s tailor-made for barroom singing, something that’s been in short supply for a while. This Mobile, Alabama, outfit has a big room sound and Four Quarter’s is a small stage, a combination that always supercharges this clandestine Argenta space.
CROWBAR, SUMOKEM, PANTHEON With vocalist Kirk Windstein as a through line, it’s hard to overstate Crowbar’s impact on the style of sludge metal that festered and emerged from swampy New Orleans in the ’90s. Back then, Windstein said, the band was sharing a warehouse space with EyeHateGod and listening to “Trouble, Saint Vitus, Melvins, and the first Type O Negative record,” and Crowbar’s heavy, plodding tunes got traction on MTV’s “Headbanger’s Ball” and on bits from “Beavis and Butthead.” No wiser words, maybe, on the band’s style than those spoken by Mike Judge’s couch-bound duo: “Whoa. This music is slow and fat.” Here’s to that. Little Rock’s own doom mavens Sumokem — whose work falls similarly thick and heavy on the ears — and a burgeoning thrash metal ensemble called Pantheon open the show.
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THURSDAY 11/11. VINO’S BREWPUB. 7:30 P.M. $22.
ADAM FAUCETT & THE TALL GRASS
FRIDAY 11/5. WHITE WATER TAVERN. $10.
‘THE LEGACY OF DUNBAR’
THROUGH 12/17. MOSAIC TEMPLARS CULTURAL CENTER, 501 W. NINTH ST. When the four-story Mosaic Templars Cultural Center opened as a museum in September of 2008, its namesake nodded to the 1880s, when a Black fraternal order sprung up to provide insurance and funeral assistance to Black people who might otherwise be denied those services. The museum also nodded to its more recent past, though, with an exhibit called “Your Guiding Hand: Little Rock’s Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, 1929-1955,” up on the center’s walls from 2008-2010. Now, a new exhibit in the museum’s changing gallery reimagines the impact of Dunbar High School, historically a paragon of education for Arkansas schoolchildren, particularly to its African American students during the state’s tumultuous battle over school desegregation. 16 NOVEMBER 2021
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Adam Faucett has said in interviews that he tried, at turns, to sound like Cat Power, Mazzy Star and “The Floyd,” but that he sounded “too much like a hick.” All due respect to the aforementioned, thank the gods he didn’t end up sounding like any of those things. That deep-seated bellow soaring in zero gravity when the bottom drops out of “Sparkman?” The crushing decrescendo that concludes “Dust”? The Benton native’s penchant for historical metaphor, a la “Mackay Bennett” or “John Carter 1927?” All reasons — and good ones — why Faucett’s was among the voices we hankered hard to hear during a year-plus without live performance. And, as little adornment as his voice needs, his band is uncommonly sensitive with it, vacillating between pianissimo and detonation in a half-beat’s time.
IN AMERICAN WATERS
THE SEA IN AMERICAN PAINTING
Return to the sea in this new exhibition, featuring marine paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe, Amy Sherald, Kay WalkingStick, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Rockwell, and many more.
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NEWS & POLITICS
THE AGE OF IGNORANCE
PARANOID POLITCS: Sarah Huckabee Sanders, likely to be Arkansas’s next governor, has shaped her campaign around ginning up fear of “the radical left.”
“The socialists are coming, the socialists are coming, and they’re 10 feet tall!”
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hat yawp — or any of many variants such as “the pedophiles are coming!” “the Democrats are coming!” “the antifas are coming!” or “the Guatemalans are coming!” — could be the motto of our time here in the latter days of the Age of Trump, when paranoia and its abettor, ignorance, define politics and the highest planes of nearly every discussion of current social movements. If you are old and fortunate enough to remember the fine 1966 comedy film “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming,” you have at least an intuitive grasp of the paranoid style of contemporary American politics. The movie depicts the hysteria that occurs on a tiny New England island when a Russian submarine runs aground (its stupid commander tries to get a tooclose look at the fabled place called America). It ends happily when the suddenly sympathetic villagers protect the Russkies from the U.S. Air Force. The film, starring Alan Arkin, Eva Marie Saint, Jonathan Winters and Carl Reiner, was made a couple of years after our introduction to “the paranoid style in American politics,” occasioned by the historian Richard Hofstadter’s study in
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Harper’s Magazine and his groundbreaking book by the same name. Hofstadter had tracked paranoid spells in history, from the ancient fears of papal or Zionist plots to take over Europe, the United States and the whole world to the many consuming fears of Wall Street cabals in the populist era of the 1890s and beyond, and finally to the McCarthyfed fear of secret communist control of the Eisenhower administration. Hofstadter did not just chronicle those episodes but analyzed the “paranoid modes of expression” by screwballs and people with profoundly disturbed minds, as well as the heartfelt expressions of ordinary people hypnotized by magnetic but unscrupulous politicians. Hofstadter, however, never imagined anything like today, when millions and millions of Americans — perhaps a third of the population, including virtually an entire political party, much of Congress, many legislatures (including Arkansas’s), and even Black sports heroes — are so mesmerized by a cult leader’s lies and unhinged claims that they are willing to endanger the lives of loved ones and friends by refusing masks and vaccines, and to endorse the violent overthrow of democratic institutions in order to support the great leader’s self-serving fantasies. Like Hofstadter, the next generation of
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scholars will figure out for the guidance of our grandchildren how all this came about. Let’s be optimistic. The first question to be answered might be this: How did millions of people — people who, all their lives, had willingly observed all kinds of public health and safety rules like traffic lights and speeding laws, and who had always accepted vaccines for smallpox, measles, whooping cough and other diseases in order to go to school or join the armed forces — suddenly decide that their basic rights would be violated by taking a shot or wearing a mask in crowded places to avoid transmitting to their loved ones, friends and co-workers the deadliest new disease in more than a hundred years? Here’s a related question: How did a corrupt, fundamentally immoral, failed businessman attract such a multitude of cultish worshippers? Merely by barking “You’re fired!” on scripted TV shows? At the outset of the Trump Era in 2015, I had my own theory about his populist appeal. It involved the Trump family’s long racist history in New York, Donald’s own deployment of the comical Obamais-not-an-American lie, and the total collapse of the Democratic Party in the South and industrial Midwest after the 2008 election of a Black president. But the mystery remains how so many millions of Americans could believe, persistently, without a shred of evidence, a politician’s claims
The Arkansas Barbecue Trail UA Clinton School alum Brock Hyland teams up with Arkansas Times and PK Grills to encourage barbecue tourism in The Natural State. By Rhett Brinkley
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hen Texas native Brock Hyland was in his junior year at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, he read a piece in an issue of the Oxford American titled “In Through The Back Door’’ by John T. Edge, which explores barbecue culture and history through multiple visits to Jones Bar-B-Q Diner in Marianna (Lee County). The article was published more than a decade ago, before Jones Bar-B-Q was recognized by the James Beard Foundation as an “American Classic,” and it identified the iconic business as being one of the oldest Black-owned restaurants in the South and perhaps the oldest in the country. Hyland, a self-proclaimed barbecue nerd, couldn’t believe he wasn’t aware of that history. “What concerned me about it was, how had I lived here for so long and I’m just now hearing about this, you know?” Hyland said. “That got the wheels turning for me that something should be done to highlight that living history and kind of bring awareness to the barbecue culture that we have here.” It’s a culture that’s somewhat understated. Jones Bar-B-Q has certainly received some much deserved national acclaim lately after a fire almost destroyed the restaurant in February of this year. More than $80,000 was raised by the public to help save the institution, and, just this month, it was among the 50 U.S. restaurants that made a New York Times best restaurants list. Collectively, however, Arkansas barbecue isn’t in the national discourse along the same lines as it is in neighboring Texas, Tennessee and Missouri. Rex Nelson, one of Arkansas’s most recognizable foodies and author of “Southern Fried: Going Whole Hog in a State of Wonder,” attributes it to the varieties of barbecue that can be found in the state depending on which of its six bordering states you’re closest to. “There’s not just one style of Arkansas barbecue,” Nelson said. “Writers from outside the state find the Arkansas barbecue culture too difficult to tackle. So they don’t. It would take too much work.” “I think we don’t talk about it as much,” said Scott Moody, co-owner of PK Grills. “Texas is really noisy about it. We don’t talk about it, and maybe that’s even an interesting angle for us to say we’re just a little cooler about it, I don’t know. I do not think it’s a quality issue.” Hyland’s idea fully materialized during the pandemic while he contemplated his final project, known as the Capstone, as a student at the UA Clinton School of Public Service. Aware of the economic hardships
and public health challenges restaurants were facing during the pandemic, Hyland conceived the idea for the Arkansas Barbecue Trail: 40 of the best barbecue joints in the state divided among the six natural regions and Little Rock metro. The idea was inspired by Texas Monthly’s barbecue passports. Participants will be issued Arkansas Barbecue Trail passports and collect stamps from the restaurants they visit on the trail to compete for prizes from sponsor PK Grills. Kevin Shalin, author of the popular Mighty Rib food blog, said that he considers barbecue one of the most subjective of all foods and one that people will travel great distances to experience. “There’s not many other foods that inspire that kind of act where you’re like, ‘Alright, I’m going to wake up at 8 o’clock on a Saturday morning and my sole purpose is barbecue today.’ That barbecue has to be elite, which I call destination barbecue, and I don’t think we have many of those places, but they’re starting to pop up. I’ve driven to Fayetteville just for Wright’s Barbecue. It’s that good,” Shalin said. Shalin said one of the biggest hurdles he’s seen covering food here for the last decade is getting people out of their food comfort zones. “... Getting people to travel farther than 10 minutes from their house and feeling comfortable doing that and supporting places that they wouldn’t typically support ... I really think that’s going to be the key to bettering our food community as a whole,” he said. For Hyland, the idea has always been about economic and community development for family-owned barbecue joints. “Bringing awareness and increasing tourism to those places would help in any situation, but I think that it will be particularly impactful as we move out of this pandemic,” he said. “People travel for food. When I go to a new city, my main focus is what’s good to eat there. And I don’t think Arkansas should be any different in that regard.”
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that dark forces stole his landslide elections from him when every legitimate poll, including those conducted by Fox News itself, showed that he would be beaten by some 10 million votes. Even in his first official loss — the February 2016 Republican caucuses in Iowa — Trump claimed that “Lyin’ Ted Cruz” had stolen Iowa’s votes from him, apparently with the collusion of all the Iowa Republicans (not a socialist or a Democrat among them) whose job was to count the caucus goers. Proof of the absurdity of his claims will continue to pile up, but it will make no difference to all the true believers, the “patriots” whose heroes broke into the Capitol on Jan. 6 to lynch Vice President Mike Pence and House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi and to force the U.S. Senate to throw out the election results and install Trump as president for life. Maybe the scholars and data analysts will furnish some credible theories by, say, 2035. What we do have now, as far as it goes, is some historical grasp of the more enduring forms of political paranoia, like the morbid fear of an impending socialist overthrow of democratic capitalism — soon after they succeed in beating down the National Rifle Association and confiscating everyone’s guns. The gun craziness began with the gun industry’s takeover of the NRA in the 1970s, when the industry and paranoid citizenry began to change the purpose and meaning of the Second Amendment from the protection of state militias to protection from socialists. Guns became the solution to everyone’s problems, from muddled teenagers to distraught workers and lovers. The escalating daily explosions of gun violence across poor Arkansas in 2021 were so inevitable. We have heard those cries about socialism across the South and Midwest since the end of World War I and the bloody Red Summer of 1919, when socialists were supposed to be plotting a takeover by stirring up and organizing workers and Black tenant farmers to fight for better pay and working conditions. That fall, in Phillips County, scores of soldiers, lawmen and vigilantes murdered hundreds of Black men, women and children because they suspected the desperate people of trying to form a union to press for better pay for the crops they produced. Unions in those days, and perhaps still, were suspected of being the socialists’ vehicle for destroying capitalism and taking over the country. At the time, the editors of the Arkansas Gazette (years later, my employer) scolded eastern “socialists” whom they thought were siding with the murdered farmers in Phillips County and the dozen innocent Black men who had been condemned to hang for the troubles but who were later absolved by the courts and freed. Some things never change. Last month, the
likely next governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, cut a TV ad saying she was running for governor to fight the “radical left” — i.e. Democrats — who were intent on destroying our freedoms and condemning us to live under socialism. Her daddy, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, and her mentor, former President Trump, had condemned Barack Obama as a socialist for his efforts to offer health insurance to everyone through a voluntary system of private and public insurance. They called it “socialized medicine,” although the only real socialized medicine in America today is government-directed care for old soldiers — the VA. While Republicans and their public-relations outlets, including the current statewide Arkansas paper, refer to the Democratic Party and the president as “radical leftists” and “socialists” because of a half-dozen tough-talking women of foreign descent in the House of Representatives, the party and the president are, in reality, no more liberal than they have ever been. The most liberal American president in history, surpassing Lyndon B. Johnson, remains Harry S. Truman, who fought hard for a tough civil-rights law and a system of universal health insurance that covered everybody. Truman was enraged that Republicans and the American Medical Association called his health care bill “socialized medicine.” Truman’s health care system, like Obama’s — and like the one Bernie Sanders proposed, and like the plans pushed by Republican Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford — would have retained the private health care delivery system. But, as I said at the outset, paranoid politics requires a consort, and that consort is ignorance. I mean ignorance not merely of what socialism actually is, but of science, of history and of life itself. Ignorance manifested itself often in the Arkansas legislature this year, with laws that impose cruelty on both children and adults, laws that ignore hundreds of years of scientific advancement and hundreds of years of American history. What the current Arkansas legislature has demonstrated, more than anything else, is that its members do not understand how the United States government and its local divisions have carried out the mandate in the Declaration of Independence to protect the life, health and safety of all the people. Thomas Jefferson at least seemed to think that God expected the government, as the first of its tasks, to protect His people by taking steps to prevent the spread of disease and untimely death. Some, like Sarah Sanders and Sen. Trent Garner of my hometown of El Dorado, and perhaps most of the Arkansas General Assembly, think they know better than Jefferson what God expects. The casualty numbers don’t seem to support them, but maybe time will tell.
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UNCERTAIN FUTURE EXPERTS PREDICT WHAT CENTRAL ARKANSAS WILL LOOK LIKE IN 30 YEARS In 1974, the Arkansas Times surveyed regional planners to get a picture of Little Rock 26 years down the line, in 1990. Among the predictions: Little Rock’s population would reach 500,000, 75% of all new construction would be apartments and other multifamily units, and the Metrocentre Mall would revitalize downtown. “Freeways do not divide the city racially,” one planning official said in the course of discussing a massive expansion of expressways and freeways through North Little Rock and Little Rock, which thankfully never materialized.
Predicting the future is hard and perhaps foolhardy, but with the decennial Census results in hand and as we (fingerscrossed) begin to emerge from a devastating, way-of-life-altering pandemic, it seemed like a fine time to get local experts to gaze in the crystal ball and predict what life in the Little Rock metro will be like in the year 2050. Some forecasts are hopeful. Some are prescriptive. Some are zany. (We’re never getting an NBA team, but goats may indeed replace our lawnmowers.) Read on, find more predictions at arktimes.com/lr2050 and let us know what we’re wrong about.
CENTRAL ARKANSAS 2050 Informed predictions from a Metroplan planner. BY JONATHAN LUPTON DEMOGRAPHICS, POPULATION GROWTH AND VACCINES Let me start by talking about numbers. Census 2020 tells us the four-county Central Arkansas area (Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski and Saline counties) had 720,054 people. This was up 7.2% from 2010, a sharp slowdown from 15% growth the previous decade. But it was faster than average for the state of Arkansas, with its population increase of just 3.3%. The state’s rural counties saw net population loss. When will Northwest Arkansas pass us to become the state’s largest metropolitan area? Probably not by 2050. Metroplan’s official forecast of 914,000 in 2050 looks too high now, but a rudimentary linear forecast based on Census 2020 still shows Central Arkansas holding a small edge, at 866,000 vs. 848,000 for the Northwest region in 2050. Our overall population will be older in the future; median age will rise from about 37.3 today to 39.2 in 2050. Median age is impacted by life expectancy, which was about 79.7 a couple of years ago. But life expectancy got dinged by the opioid epidemic, and then COVID-19 came along, knocking nearly two years off, and
the pandemic is not over. In a 2017 report, the Census Bureau explained that life expectancy climbed fast during the mid-to-late 20th century partly because widespread vaccinations slashed the mortality rate. Contrast that with modern vaccine sentiments and you can see why I’m less optimistic today. RACIAL CHANGE Our region’s race and ethnic population mix is changing fast, like the national average. Our white population, at about 63 percent of the total, is above the U.S. average (58 percent). Our Black population, around 23 percent, is nearly double the U.S. average. We have fewer Asians and Hispanics than average, but these groups are growing fast, and continuing change in the region’s racial profile is inevitable. The portions of Central Arkansas that have grown fastest in the past 10 years have also seen the fastest racial change. Black population grew by 11 percent across the region, but more than doubled in fast-growing Saline County, where Hispanic population also doubled. The category “other” is the fastest growing, consisting largely of persons of two or more races.
The rapid growth in this last group hints at how our definition of racial categories will change over time. There may be continuing distinction between whites and nonwhites in 2050, but growing numbers of the latter mean the barriers will probably soften. If you wonder how I can say our racial categories will be different in 2050, just look back a few years. The 1960 census did not report Hispanic population. The 1970 census added a new population category to some reports, “Persons of Spanish language.” For most reports, it gave just two categories: “white” and “Negro and other races.” And that’s just 50 years back. HOW CITIES ARE CHANGING We know there is more poverty in the suburbs than there used to be. Even in relatively highend communities like Sherwood and Maumelle, poverty nearly doubled from 2000 to 2019. You can expect this trend to continue. Houses and apartments in the suburbs are often cheaper. There has been a lot of growth in multifamily housing lately. Modern apartments are concentrated in “apartment cities” because multifamily developers need at least 200 units per complex to manage operating costs. Developers look for areas that are visible, near major intersections along major roads, reasonably close to jobs, and in desirable neighborhoods. The last ARKANSASTIMES.COM ARKANSASTIMES.COM
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characteristic leads to land-use controversies. Zoning laws have historically kept multifamily housing out of single-family areas, making singlefamily housing exclusive and inaccessible to the poor and those of moderate means. There is always a need for affordable housing. The paradox I cannot solve is that there are attractive, livable older neighborhoods in our region with pretty tree-lined landscapes in older urban locations like south-central Little Rock, Rose City and Levy in North Little Rock, eastcentral Conway and south Benton. These places are seeing deinvestment, housing demolitions and population decline. This is where crime, or the undeserved stigma of it, really hurts us. These neighborhoods were built and paid for in a past century while we continue building new suburbs, at considerable expense, with some of the cost borne by taxpayers. Older neighborhoods are often well-located, close to jobs, shopping and recreation. If we can somehow turn disinvestment into reinvestment, we can revive some affordable and livable places. This is already happening in Pettaway, south of downtown Little Rock, where 72 new single-family homes were built in the past decade. It is a pretty neighborhood, and these are nice and relatively affordable homes. I take it as a hopeful sign. The pandemic has hit downtown offices hard, especially in Little Rock, where “for lease” signs have sprung up like mushrooms after a summer shower. The work-from-home trend means we will see permanent change in downtowns, but the pandemic must end before we can really assess. A recent Economist article suggests urban areas are behaving like omelets, oozing out from the center into the ’burbs. Suburban jobs tend to concentrate in activity centers near major intersections. GETTING AROUND Little Rock still contains about half the total jobs in the metro area. This means our region has a more radial commuting pattern than average. People commute inward from the suburbs on converging routes, instead of circling around on beltways. Because a lot of our jobs are fixed in place — in state government, hospitals and other large institutions — radial commuting is likely to persist in 2050. Less commuting will go toward downtown specifically, though.
Transportation could change a lot by 2050, but this is hard to foresee. Self-driving cars have receded from the headlines but by 2050 will have a presence. So-called “demand-responsive transit” could compete with Uber and Lyft to get people around. The city of Rogers is experimenting with demand-responsive transit for all citizens. The idea is that, since you pay for roads, parks, police and fire protection, your taxes should also ensure a free ride anywhere within your city. It sounds radical but think about the implications for personal freedom. Trails are in demand. It is hard to find the funding and wherewithal to build them through the urban fabric, over or under streets that block safe biking and walking. Yet there is growing understanding that urban trails have a lot to do with quality of life, which is becoming the key element in economic growth. Cities with highvalue trail systems attract top-notch talent. CRIME AND URBAN BLIGHT Our region suffers a worse-than-average crime problem. Sometimes this is dismissed as “unfair numbers,” but I’m convinced it’s real and a major obstacle to investment, growth and opportunity. Part of the answer lies in improving our policing model. I worry most about older suburbs. Asher Avenue is shunned today, but it was once one of Little Rock’s newest shopping destinations. Suburban strip development has little long-term value; the buildings typically have a life cycle of 30 years. Huge swathes of development from the big-box boom of the 1990s will be nearing 70 years old by 2050. Some — not all — older suburban areas are becoming vacant asphalt wastelands. Our region isn’t alone in facing this problem, but it will be a make-or-break question in years ahead. Walkable, human-scale urban environments attract activity and socialization. Roaring five-lane traffic sewers, parking lots and empty buildings feel anonymous and alienating. Crime avoids the former and feeds on the latter. OPPORTUNITIES We can learn from our neighbors. Northwest Arkansas has recently seen some major advances in quality of life, including the 36-mile Razorback Greenway trail that cuts right through the urban fabric all the way from Bella Vista to Fayetteville.
Walmart is building a new corporate HQ near downtown Bentonville, and a segment of the Razorback Greenway walk/bike trail will run right through the corporate headquarters. Business and government work together amiably to develop parks, city centers and cultural institutions. In Little Rock a certain major retail headquarters shuns free trail development on its property, an example of the public-private antagonism that pops up too often in Central Arkansas. Still, our region has some great assets. Our natural landscape is unusually varied and physically attractive, with steep topography, rivers and lakes, with a pleasing contrast between Delta flatlands and Ouachita highlands. We need to capitalize on our lasting landscape advantage. To some degree we already have. We have some great neighborhoods and parks. Our trail system is world-class, it just needs to make connections between our high-quality places. When you build trails it can really leverage land values and encourage developers to invest — so-called “trailoriented development.” Even if you get there by car, the trail helped create a new destination. Central Arkansas has seen some outstanding urban revitalization in the past 20 to 30 years. We have strutted our know-how by building up areas like the River Market District, Downtown Argenta, Hendrix Village, Rockwater and downtown Conway. There are promising trends in downtown Benton and Lonoke. We already know how to rebuild attractive historic landscapes and build new landscapes that mix urban energy and location advantage with rural-feeling trail and park systems. We need to extend the model to other areas, maybe with better housing affordability. Our upscale neighborhoods remain a tad expensive, but overall our region offers remarkably low housing costs compared with similar U.S. urban regions. We need a stronger sense of regionalism. The old antagonisms between Little Rock and its upstart suburbs still get in the way. Yet I’ve heard our region’s mayors and county judges agree at Metroplan Board meetings that what’s good for Little Rock is good for the smaller places, and vice versa. We need to emulate our friends in Northwest Arkansas and work together as a region. Jonathan Lupton is senior planner for publications at Metroplan.
MONEY VIA AN APP Also, no fossil fuels and Elvis lives. Our financial technology future looks like the convergence of all the new technologies into a single app. We’ll have our financial lives run by machine learning and artificial intelligence. We’ll transact in digital money, and it’s very likely currency will be decentralized. These innovations will be particularly impactful because decentralized currency will smooth out the distribution of wealth, and digital money will enable underserved people today to be better off. Transferring and sharing money will be easier and much less expensive. I don’t think we’ll be on fossil fuels anymore, and I think Elvis will take the stage at Simmons Bank Arena, which will still be … Simmons Bank Arena! Prince will be there, too. — Wayne Miller, executive director of The Venture Center 24 NOVEMBER NOVEMBER2021 2021 24
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WHEN TEACHERS LEAD A hopeful future for education.
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hen I was little, I used to line my dolls up in my bedroom and play school. Craig, my baby brother and only sibling, would always be my only live pupil. I remember using fly swatters or anything that would extend my reach to call on him when he was being “voluntold” to answer questions. Craig’s participation in class and how he engaged was heavily dependent upon the lesson, what was going on and how long we’d been playing. There were days when none of that mattered; he simply didn’t want to be my student. But once he began real school, he started to appreciate my “school” more than he realized. Even with the dolls, stuffed animals and pretend classroom put away, I often found myself using the arts, specifically rap music and drama; manipulatives; and mnemonic devices to reteach the material that Craig had a hard time grasping from his teachers. Pop-up study sessions would continue periodically throughout high school. Craig’s unexpected death from a car accident served as a wake-up call to fulfill my purpose — to teach, protect and advocate for our most vulnerable. I spent 19 years as a classroom practitioner, working to build meaningful relationships, teach the whole child, support the most marginalized and ensure that each student I was responsible for was college and career ready once they graduated. Shortly after serving as the 2019 Arkansas Teacher of the Year, I transitioned into a new role as the Teach Plus Arkansas state director. In this capacity I help empower educators across our state to develop and advocate for policies to advance equity, opportunity and student success. Time has passed and the year is now 2050. Rebuilding after the coronavirus pandemic of the early ’20s (the most catastrophic event of the century) caused society to reexamine our priorities. Once we made a serious commitment to take care of our students and teachers, our education system started to turn around. And I’m beyond thrilled to share that teachers are now listened to, respected for their expertise and compensated like professionals. The pipeline is booming! Teaching is now treated as a reputable profession by all, and the salaries reflect it. Teacher morale is high, and attrition is at an alltime low. All teachers (regardless of what or where they teach) have the support and resources to do their job effectively. Teacher leadership pathways
have created opportunities for teachers to advance and lead without leaving the classroom. They are now heavily involved in educational policy, curriculum, instruction and assessment decisions. The improvement in working conditions for classroom practitioners has also had a positive impact on students. Students now sit at the table alongside teachers and other decision-makers to actively lend their voices and weigh in on educational issues. Teaching and learning are reciprocal, experiential and culturally responsive. Students engage with a relevant curriculum that provides opportunities to see themselves and learn about others. They are taught accurate facts and universal truths, service-learning projects that solve community issues are required of all students, and the arts are as important as sports and advanced placement classes. Today, in 2050, the demographics of the teaching profession, including administrators, superintendents and state leaders, are as diverse as Arkansas’s public school youth. This visual is especially promising to the little Craigs everywhere, who only saw someone who looked like them in 2% of the teachers a few decades ago. This explosion has caused them to experience a positive self-fulling prophecy. Their brilliance and creativity are being recognized at record-breaking levels. They are no longer over-represented in special education or underrepresented in gifted and talented. Wrap-around services are readily accessible, and since school is no longer a place of trauma for them, many Black males now aspire to become a teacher — not athletic coaches — but teachers of all subjects, including early childhood. Finally, the opportunity gap has been closed. All students now have an equitable education with excellent teachers and can achieve their full potential. If Craig, my first real student and baby brother, were alive today, he would be 70. I imagine after hearing this update on the current state of education, he would flash that big smile of his, give us the reverse nod, and say, “Good job! But you know you don’t have to wait for a tragedy to make major moves or to start living your best life, right? So, what’s the goal and plan for 2080?” Stacey McAdoo, the 2019 Arkansas Teacher of the Year, is the state director for Teach Plus Arkansas.
PREDICTING TORNADOES HOURS IN ADVANCE Meteorological modeling will dramatically improve. There’s no doubt lives and property have been saved because of the remarkable technological advances in meteorology over the past few decades. Computer modeling of the atmosphere has increased the accuracy of short-term and long-term forecasting. Doppler radar helps detect developing tornadoes and has increased the average lead time for tornado warnings. We’re also able to take more accurate measurements of the atmosphere at all levels. These are just a few of the important tools we use and will use in the future. The merger of these components by 2050 will have great benefits to society. Forecasting will become more and more accurate, but it’s the potential for better warnings when severe weather threatens which excites me. I envision a day when false tornado warnings will be drastically reduced. They will also become more precise with so much lead time, and communities may be able to get out of the path hours before the storm and tornado arrive. Imagine being able to know the track and intensity of a tornado hours before it hits your neighborhood. — Todd Yakoubian, meteorologist with KATV, Channel 7
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MID-CENTURY POLITICS
The evolution of the suburbs will be key for Central Arkansas. BY JAY BARTH
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hose who study American political history think a good deal about periods of realignment: those moments when significant and durable shifts occur in our partisan patterns. Across the couple of centuries when we have had mass political parties in the United States, such changes occur every couple of generations until new issues or demographic forces come onto the scene that drive the next political realignment. While the rise of independents means that such shifts are not as visible as they once were, the Obama/Trump era has clearly produced a new period of realignment. The key force lately is a demographic one: relatively optimistic (sub)urbanites vs. rural voters agitated about their economic futures and the potential loss of respect for their way of life. This division between urban enclaves and the countryside, of course, is reinforced by other socioeconomic markers, such as race, education and religiosity. In this respect, the realignment of the last decade has parallels to another realignment: that of 1896 in which the burgeoning American cities rejected and overwhelmed an economic populism led by William Jennings Bryan that also tried to hold on to an American past that was quickly, but not quietly, disappearing. What does any of this have to do with Little Rock? As the sole urban enclave in Arkansas that has decidedly larger percentages of persons of color, higher rates of education and slightly lower levels of religiosity than the areas around it, it’s clear where Little Rock is headed politically. Assuming representative democracy continues to exist (and, ultimately, I’m an optimist on that front despite the ongoing threats to it that are quite real), between now and 2050 we should expect Little Rock, a city where all but a handful of precincts voted for Joe Biden last November, to remain an emphatically Democratic and comparatively progressive city. Indeed, expectations about Little Rock’s socioeconomic patterns suggest that Little Rock will only become a more navy blue island in a rural state, joined by the heart of North Little Rock.
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The key question is what happens to the areas surrounding Little Rock and North Little Rock — both inside Pulaski County and in the surrounding counties. As one leaves a job in Little Rock or North Little Rock and heads home, the driver quickly moves from urban to exurban areas, almost entirely skipping over the types of suburbs that have transformed politics in a Democratic direction elsewhere in the South and Midwest. If those areas — such as the communities south on I-30 to Benton and north on I-40 to Conway — become more densely packed and more clearly suburbanized, we can expect them to become more racially and ethnically diverse and more progressive in their political attitudes and voting patterns in response to a Trumpist Republican Party. If they remain exurbs separated from the cities at the core of a Central Arkansas donut, we can anticipate the voters who live there will behave more like their mostly white rural compatriots. Whether these places are more suburban or exurban has major ramifications for the political power of Central Arkansas as a region, particularly as opposed to the quickly growing and more inherently unified Northwest Arkansas corridor. The I-49 corridor is already becoming a somewhat indistinguishable suburban area as one moves from Bella Vista to the south through Fayetteville. More importantly, the individual communities along that quickly growing corridor work together for the shared interests of the region. As a result, there is no doubt that the political and economic power of the region will grow over the next three decades. The big question is whether Northwest Arkansas overwhelms a divided Little Rock metropolitan area or — through a rise of a shared regionalism in an ideologically unified Central Arkansas — the two regions battle to a draw over such issues as legislative spending on transportation projects and higher education institutions. Another expectation for the middle of this century involves who holds positions of leadership in local government. The story of leadership in Little Rock across most of its history has been quite
uniform: white, straight and male. Only a handful of the city’s mayors have deviated from that pattern. That is destined to change in the coming decades as we will see more persons of color, more women and more queer citizens holding the most visible leadership roles in the community at both City Hall and representing the city at the state Capitol. Because of demographic change and political empowerment, those who have fought to have a place at the table will be increasingly likely to set the agenda for those conversations. Many of the issues that dominate political debates will remain the ones of decades past in Little Rock: education, crime and traditional infrastructure issues like roads. However, equitable access to newer forms of infrastructure — broadband access and what is increasingly termed “human infrastructure” (the early childhood workforce and skilled nursing for the elderly) — will inevitably fight for air time with these traditional issues. Even more vitally, policies and practices that promise to combat climate change will be central by 2050. Local governments that cannot find answers to this existential challenge will be rejected by an increasingly “green”-oriented electorate. Finally, much of politics and government will play out online. The pandemic moment has, in many ways, been a preview of what’s to come. Sources of information will be almost entirely digital, meetings will take place online and citizens will communicate with their representatives primarily electronically rather than in person. While digital tools will become increasingly innovative (indeed, we can only imagine the ways that advances in tools like virtual reality will transform social interactions online), this will reshape how we interact with our fellow citizens and how candidates relate to voters and how officeholders connect to constituents. The great fear, of course, is that, as politics becomes increasingly depersonalized, it also becomes dehumanized, leading to polarization and downright meanness across lines of difference. That is the great fear regarding politics at the middle of the century. Jay Barth is chief education officer for the city of Little Rock and the M.E. and Ima Graves Peace emeritus professor of politics at Hendrix College.
THE FUTURE OF THE LIBRARY Already well more than a place to check out books, CALS will become a community hub in the future. BY ELIZA BORNÉ
I GROWTH AND IMPROVEMENT A host of hopeful predictions. Little Rock’s population will reach 350,000. We’ll have elevated rail transit from East Little Rock to West Little Rock and from Hot Springs to Little Rock, similar to “L” in Chicago. Little Rock will have a Major League Soccer and NBA team. UALittle Rock will have a football team. The Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport will become an international airport. Broadway Street will be redeveloped away from fast-food chains. There’ll be massive infill development of apartments and businesses replacing downtown Little Rock’s overabundance of surface parking. The city will move away from the council/city manager form of government to a mayor/ council arrangement. The Pulaski County Special School District schools in Little Rock will become part of the Little Rock School District, and there will be longer school days and year-round school with breaks throughout the year. Two years of civics classes will be a graduation requirement. Free early child care and education will be available to residents. War Memorial Park will be considered Little Rock’s Central Park, and trail and park development will continue along the river. Little Rock will annex Cammack Village. —Antwan Phillips, at-large Little Rock city director
n “The Library Book,” journalist Susan Orlean evokes the public library’s identity as “the people’s university” and praises public libraries as “sanctuaries,” “town squares” and “community centers.” To those of us who spend a lot of time at one of the Central Arkansas Library System’s 15 branches, the description resonates. The library is here for all of us, whether we’re learning a skill, finding new ways to participate in civic life, looking to join a group based on a shared interest or seeking a place just to be ourselves. I don’t expect this to change any time over the next three decades — or over the next century. Our community trusts and relies on the public library to promote learning. To ensure access to information for all. To enhance quality of life. And to make sure our resources are available to the widest number of people possible. What will evolve is how we deliver those resources. In 2019, our library board approved a new strategic plan focused on extending our connections within the community — for CALS, that means 344,553 people in Pulaski and Perry counties, or about 11% of Arkansans. As a result of the plan, we hired two outreach liaisons to develop community partnerships and head outside of our buildings with books, programming and information. One of those liaisons, Jessica McDaniel, recently summed up CALS’s approach. “Long gone are the days where the library is just a quiet place to read.” (Though it’s that, too, and our staff is always happy to make a book recommendation and help you find a cozy corner to read.) Ultimately, McDaniel says, the outreach team aims to “empower potential patrons to have a feeling of ownership in their library system.” What does ownership in a library system mean, and how will that change by 2050? The answer is that our services will evolve as our community’s needs evolve. Our strategic plan gives special attention to increasing engagement with and services to underserved patrons. That means we focus a lot of energy on bridging the digital divide, and working to connect community members with internet access, devices and the knowledge they need to navigate technology in their daily lives. We’re invested in providing technical assistance: helping patrons polish resumes, apply for benefits and write business plans. Meeting the needs of our youngest patrons and their families is a top
priority, and CALS staff have worked to serve hundreds of thousands of free meals to kids, tutor students in math and create engaging programs for youth, including thousands of grab-and-go activity kits during the pandemic. I’ve long felt that the library is the original co-working space, but now we’re leaning in to that identity and purchasing tools to make our conference rooms more useful for today’s worker who may need to host virtual or hybrid meetings. I can envision a time when CALS is offering an even more ambitious range of community-based services. When our branches host year-round enrichment programs for kids, like afterschool programs and spring break and summer camps. (We’ll be piloting a few such camps at four branches next year.) When we employ fulltime chefs at our branches’ teaching kitchens to prepare free meals from produce grown in library gardens. (You can already visit the little free farm stand distributing produce from the garden at our Children’s Library & Learning Center on W. 10th Street.) When you can get a check-up at your branch in addition to checking out a book. (CALS employs a licensed social worker, but I wouldn’t be surprised if someday we also employ a nurse and other health care workers.) When our system is powered entirely on renewable energy. (We recently broke ground on a new solar array.) I know for sure that our collections development department will adapt to changing tastes and technologies and purchase books, movies and other materials in whatever format the public would like to enjoy. (My hunch is that some segment of the population will always prefer physical copies.) It is exciting to contemplate the CALS of the future, though as an employee of the library, I find most of my inspiration in dreaming about how we can be of help today. In a recent patron survey, respondents had high praise for our programs and collections. Most of all, they emphasized the kind and welcoming atmosphere at CALS. I am confident that this feature of our service will remain constant, whatever the public library’s version of “sanctuary,” “town square,” and “community center” looks like in 2050. If you come to CALS, no matter who you are, you will always be welcome. Eliza Borné is director of development at the Central Arkansas Library System. ARKANSASTIMES.COM
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OUR HEALTH CARE FUTURE
Remote mental health therapy, the end to employer-based health care and more. BY CRAIG WILSON
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he health care industry consumes one in five U.S. dollars — more than citizens spend on health care in any other country. This means policy change in health care is often incremental. Attempts at major change clash with deeppocketed interests seeking to maintain the status quo or even enhance profit margins. In my view, only two major legislative efforts have truly disrupted health care in the last six decades: the advent of Medicare and Medicaid with the Social Security Act of 1965 and the expansion of health care coverage with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. These are big changes, but the way that Arkansans access health care coverage — through Medicare for older adults, Medicaid for those who are low-income or disabled, and employersponsored coverage for those who are employed — has remained largely unchanged. Over the same period, however, clinical and technological advancements have far outpaced health care policy. Today, patients can check lab results through an online portal, consult with a doctor through video-conferencing on their lunch break, and access their medical records on their phone. The number and types of treatment available for health conditions are expansive, and breakthrough therapies for both rare and common diseases are arriving more frequently as longterm investments in research and clinical trials show promise. These changes are much harder to predict, so I offer a couple of safe predictions and a couple of bold ones. In the safe (and maybe obvious) category: *Most mental health therapy will be delivered remotely, with the therapist at one location and the patient at another location. Until the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in 2020, in some practices remote therapy was primarily used to accommodate patients with mobility issues or scheduling challenges, or to supplement a therapist’s practice with evening or weekend hours. Patient demand is now making remote therapy a more integral and necessary part of practice. *Misinformation will corrupt the delivery of health care services, much as it has the protection of public health during the pandemic. I wish I could be more optimistic about this, but the level of attention garnered by ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine as purported treatments for COVID-19 is a symptom of a larger problem. “Seeking a second opinion” on a course of treatment is an age-old adage, but when that second opinion comes from social media or 28 NOVEMBER NOVEMBER 2021 2021 28
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other disreputable sources, poor outcomes are inevitable. In the bold category: *Few, if any, employers will offer health insurance. First offered as an incentive to attract employees in the 1940s when it was very low cost, health insurance is no longer as attractive for employers. Rising health care costs reflected in insurance premiums eat away at resources to pay wages. This will reach a boiling point sometime in the next decade, and employers will demand regulatory flexibility to offer defined contributions or be free altogether from offering health insurance. This will, of course, open up a new benefit market for attracting employees. *Online retail conglomerates, such as Walmart and Amazon, will make strong moves into health insurance markets and health care delivery. I know I am not alone when I admit that the convenience of a one-stop shop for all of my needs — and particularly the idea of discounts for “bundled services,” whether perceived or real — is very attractive. Online retailers are savvy at using these techniques to appeal to consumers. I can foresee an online retailer with a “whole health” product that includes discounts on health insurance or doctor visits for purchases of healthy foods, diet products, running shoes, gym memberships or smaller clothing sizes as evidence of weight loss. To be sure, I am neither endorsing this idea nor saying that it is consistent with current law, but it’s not entirely impossible. Putting aside the soothsaying, I am certain of two things. First, we will look back in 30 years and know that the COVID-19 pandemic forever changed the health care industry, particularly in the devastation it wrought on the health workforce pipeline. Second, absent a reversal in obesity trends, we are destined for increased morbidity, disability and death. I remain hopeful that a reversal can happen, but everyone will have to play a role — individuals and families, schools, communities, the food industry and local, state and federal policymakers — and the solution must include a focus on addressing underlying social needs and creating an environment in which the healthy choice is the available, convenient and affordable choice for all. Craig Wilson, J.D., M.P.A., is the director of health policy for the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement, an independent, nonpartisan health policy center in Little Rock.
WE’LL BE DEAD Or own fun goats. Global warming will drastically increase the world’s temperature, causing an increase in the mosquito population which will lead to more disease. Antibiotics won’t be effective anymore and when the next big bug goes around, we won’t be able to fight it off. Basically, we’ll die, and we won’t be here. But let’s pretend we are here. I think goats will replace lawnmowers, and we’ll essentially have stress reducers, fun goats and lawn care all in one sweet animal. — Ashley Jones, managing director of community programs for the The Venture Center
MUSICIANS WILL TAKE CHARGE Of venues and more regularly of recording. I don’t see live music venues closing, but I have this weird vision that they evolve into a new nature, with individual artists taking more control and setting up shows within their own vicinities — an empty strip mall, where a band rents the room and puts on the show however they want to. In Paris, there are areas where dozens of movie theaters are situated closely together — I went to see “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” in the middle of the day. In 30 years, I can see artists controlling some spaces like that — pooling their own money and building a recording studio, putting on their own shows, selling their own tickets. Recording will change, too. Thirty years ago, if someone had told us there would be an artist recording in a bedroom with their brother and then winning a Grammy?! We would have said, “That’s a lie!” Christopher Terry (CT) is director of the annual Mutants of the Monster music festival, events coordinator at Vino’s Brewpub and vocalist for Rwake, Deadbird and Iron Tongue.
BATTLING CLIMATE DISRUPTION
To tackle the global problem, we must prioritize it locally. BY GLEN HOOKS
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erhaps the biggest part of solving complicated problems is asking the right questions. The problem of global climate disruption is one of the most complicated issues of our time. Identifying the cause isn’t — the climate is in peril because we humans are spewing ridiculous amounts of greenhouse gases into our atmosphere and causing the planet to warm. Primarily, it’s down to how we burn dirty fossil fuels to generate electricity, produce heat and power our transportation. Burning coal, natural gas and oil has propelled us forward as a species in many ways. It also caused higher temperatures, droughts, stronger and more frequent storms, floods and intense forest fire seasons that were unimaginable in even our recent past. It’s not surprising if you feel overwhelmed. This problem is large enough to be paralyzing. Even worse, there are political and business forces spending billions of dollars to convince us that 1) climate disruption is a hoax, 2) it’s a liberal issue that conservatives shouldn’t believe in, and 3) science and scientists can’t be trusted. There are plenty of entities that gain power and profits by convincing us of these things. So how can we solve a global problem of this magnitude? One critical solution is to ensure that your particular corner of the world is doing the right things. You may not convince nearly 200 national governments to take large pro-climate steps, but you can convince your mayor or county judge. Our local impact can be immense and produce real, tangible benefits. Know what else is important? Showing that taking care of the environment makes economic sense. For far too long, anti-environmental forces have made the argument that climate solutions are too expensive and will drive up costs for everyone. That is simply not true anymore. Clean solar and wind energy are often less expensive than traditional coal and fracked natural gas. Thousands of Arkansans now work in goodpaying clean energy jobs. Pairing our local environmental activism with the happy reality that clean energy is a positive economic driver really gets the attention of decision-makers and elected officials. Recently, Central Arkansas took large steps toward both recognizing that climate disruption is real and actually doing something about it. Pulaski County government has taken steps to power nearly 90% of its municipal energy use with solar power. Central Arkansas Water this year announced the construction of a solar array to power its operations, which will save a projected $7 million in electricity costs over the next three
decades. The city of North Little Rock will power a significant portion of its wastewater treatment facility with solar energy. Another positive step worth noting is the movement of Entergy Arkansas away from coal and toward clean solar energy and storage. As part of a recent legal settlement with the Sierra Club and the National Parks Conservation Association, Entergy Arkansas plans to retire the state’s two largest and dirtiest coal-burning power plants. The settlement also requires Entergy to seek approval for 800 megawatts of clean energy in the state — which has resulted in the utility constructing multiple large utility-scale solar arrays throughout Arkansas. The state’s largest coalburner is now on the path to a coalfree future in The Natural State. Another large Arkansas coal-burning utility, Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO) is completing its North Central wind project. This project will mean nearly 300 megawatts of clean wind energy coming into Arkansas from our neighboring states. Adding more clean energy to the grid means cleaner air, cleaner water, healthier citizens and — more and more — lower electricity bills. When it comes to transportation, look out for the construction of significant infrastructure that will make electric vehicles a more attractive option. The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment has announced plans to install more than 200 electric vehicle charging stations across the state. In the 2021 Arkansas state legislative session, the General Assembly overwhelmingly approved legislation to create an Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Grant Program that will expand installation of fast charging stations. A great many of these will be located in Central Arkansas, which will undoubtedly spur growth in electric vehicle sales. Speaking of the Arkansas General Assembly, significant pro-solar legislation was passed in both the 2021 and 2019 sessions that improved and protected incentives for solar energy customers in our state. Arkansas has one of the nation’s best set of “net-metering” regulations, which essentially means that folks who install solar panels and generate more power than they consume have the ability to sell their excess power back to the utility at the full retail rate. This creates a strong economic incentive for Arkansans to install clean solar energy and save money while helping combat climate change. All of these are welcome and important steps forward for Central Arkansas. But it’s not nearly enough. Here at the Sierra Club, we follow the science.
The science says we need to move entirely away from burning fossil fuels if we are to have a hope of blunting the effects of climate change. That means moving to 100% clean energy for electricity and transportation as quickly as possible. We’ve dithered and argued and stalled for far too long. While it’s great news to see electric utilities like Entergy Arkansas and SWEPCO embracing clean solar and wind energy, it’s disheartening to see both of these utilities announcing plans to construct more dirty fracked natural gas plants in the state. Each of these utilities has a parent company (Entergy and American Electric Power) that made a public pledge to be at netzero carbon by 2050. Plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars locking us into a fossil fuel future for the next generation run contrary to these commitments, especially when carbon capture and sequestration is unproven. It’s a dangerous gamble that Arkansans should reject. Public pledges and greenwashing will not solve the climate crisis. We need action from Entergy Arkansas and SWEPCO that actually fulfills the pledges made by their corporate leaders. That means abandoning plans to build more fracked gas plants, accelerating the retirement of the coal-burning power plants like SWEPCO’s Flint Creek coal power plant, and building clean energy quickly and to scale. Central Arkansas is not in a bubble when it comes to pollution. Dirty polluting power plants in other parts of our state negatively affect the health of our citizens and the quality of our air. Missed work days because of respiratory problems caused by dirty air come with economic consequences for Central Arkansas. Our region frequently flirts with ozone levels at or near the legal limit, a limit that respiratory health professionals like the American Lung Association believe is already too high to protect human health. Violating ozone level caps can mean the loss of federal highway funds or the inability to locate industry in a polluted county. Even those who don’t consider themselves to be environmentalists can recognize the economic benefits of clean air to Central Arkansas. As mentioned earlier, solving complicated issues requires us to ask the right questions. We no longer need to waste time arguing about whether global climate disruption is real. Let’s move past that immediately. I believe solving the issue of climate disruption requires us to ask: 1) How can we maximize the use of clean energy in Central Arkansas? 2) How can we do it in a way that improves our health, our environment and our economy? 3) How can we do it quickly, to scale, and in a way that benefits the most people? If these are the questions we ask and answer together, we can do our part here in Central Arkansas to build healthy, thriving communities powered by energy that creates jobs and sustains human life. I’m all in. How about you? Glen Hooks is the director of the Arkansas Sierra Club and a lifelong resident of Central Arkansas. ARKANSASTIMES.COM ARKANSASTIMES.COM
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THE SHIFT TO DELIVERY AND DRIVE-THRU CONTINUES
Also, restaurants will be forced to reckon with sustainability. BY JASON ALLEY
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uick service is going to go automation; it’s already heading in that direction. I think it’s going to get even more efficient as we move forward. They’re building double-decker Taco Bells now where the kitchen is on the second floor and you’ve got your drive-thru underneath the building. What’s going to happen with the drivethrus is they’re going to be constructing their buildings on stilts with drive throughs underneath, so you’re going to see six-, seven-, eight-lane drive-thrus in the bigger markets, so now you’re able to stack 40 or 50 cars. Just look at what Chick-fil-A’s doing downtown. They’re going strictly drive-thru with a capacity from what I’ve been told is 40 cars at a time. From my experience with a previous brand, we were looking at locations of 2,000-2,500 square feet, and then we came in and kind of revolutionized it with drive-thru and the efficiency, and now the model for that brand is now 1,200-1,400 square feet. They’ve cut it in half just in the last seven years. So that goes to show you, I mean you just look at your data. Once COVID hit and restaurant lobbies were closed but drive-thrus were open, it totally conditioned people to never use the lobby. But they weren’t going there for the experience. Who goes into a Taco Bell for the experience? Delivery has completely changed the game in the past two years, and it’s only going to move more in that direction. When we looked at our business pre-COVID, delivery accounted for 12-
15%; now it accounts for 30-40% … because of the platforms. DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub, there’s so many options. What’s cool for us is now DoorDash integrates with our point-of-sale system, and it’s seamless for us. They’ve made it so much easier for us as operators, delivery is no different than takeout. It’s completely shifted and given the consumer more convenience. So it’s only going to continue to grow more and more automated, more and more delivery, and essentially what you’re going to be paying for is the experience. Fine dining is where you’re going to want to go get your experience, your more exotic food, your elevated service, food and fusions chefs are going to come up with in the next 10 to 15 years with the different ingredients they’re exposed to — I think that’s what you’re going to be going for. Another thing we’ve got to look at is how are we going to be on sustainability? That’s a huge question. So I think we’re going to be moving a lot more toward experimenting with more vegan, more plant protein stuff like we’re doing now. We see it now in fast food and we see it in fine dining already. So I think sustainability is a huge key part of how the business is going to grow with what ingredients are going to be available. I think that’s going to be a huge substitute for a lot of the meats to keep the costs down. It’s a major proponent of how the industry’s going to shift. Jason Alley is co-owner of Rock N’ Roll Sushi.
THE IMPACT OF FORD NEXT GENERATION LEARNING Career-focused education pays dividends. Following the 2020 implementation of the Academies of Central Arkansas in all public high schools across each of the four school districts within Pulaski County, public education began to experience significant improvement in core academic achievement for all students. An increasing number of students began graduating both college- and career-ready and with self-advocacy skills. Public school enrollment began trending upwards as academy high schools became schools of choice for parents, students and teachers. The academies model, intentionally built to be adaptable with the changing needs of education and industry, remains as relevant today and enjoys foundational community support. Many local teachers, parents, CEOs and community leaders are products of the academies. As a result, the economy and population of Pulaski County has grown at a much faster pace these last 30 years than the preceding 30. — Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Buckley O’Mell, vice president for advocacy; and James Reddish, executive vice president 30 NOVEMBER 2021
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GOLD MEDAL BOURBON: Dennis Morgan and Julie Cumberland at work for Rocktown Distillery, known for its bourbons and whiskeys.
arkansas spirit makers step out of beer’s shadow A SURVEY OF THE STATE’S NINE ACTIVE DISTILLERIES. BY BRIAN SORENSEN
uch has been written about Arkansas-made beer. We know all the brewers, and we understand the basic process of making ales and lagers. The explosive growth of the state’s beer industry has been well documented, and its people are constantly celebrated. Yet, distilled spirits made in Arkansas are still a mystery to most. The equipment is exotic, and it often takes an extraordinary amount of time (and patience) to reap any of the reward. Plus, we haven’t come to know the distillers like we have our brewers. The personalities behind the stills continue to lurk in the shadows. The low-profile nature of Arkansas distilleries persists despite what the director of the Arkansas Alcoholic Beverage Control Division, Doralee Chandler, calls steady growth in state-produced spirits. “Distilling has not had the boom that brewing has had over the past 15 years; however, there has still been steady growth,” she said. The growth of craft spirits across the broader U.S. market is undeniable. For 2019 — the last year for which official statistics are available —
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the American Craft Spirits Association reported annual volume growth of 24% over the previous year. Craft distillers reached $6.1 million in sales in 2019 for a 6.9% share of the total craft spirits market. Craft distilleries are defined as those producing less than 750,000 proof gallons (a measure of ethyl alcohol in a given volume of liquid, used to determine taxes) and not controlled by a large supplier. They are akin to your local craft brewery — small and independent. In Arkansas, there were only four licensed distilleries in 2016. Today there are 14 active liquor manufacturing licenses, with one more pending approval. However, not all of the active licenses are truly “active.” Brick Oven Pizza Co. in Harrison has a license and a still, but hasn’t done much with it other than make hand sanitizer during the early days of COVID-19. Gassville’s White River Distillery, in operation since 2012, suffered a major setback when founder Gary Taylor died on Oct. 8. Taylor’s son Jon said production has ceased and the
tasting room is closed, and he’s not sure what the next step for the distillery will be. Three others are incorporated and are licensed to manufacture liquor by the state, but aren’t showing any activity at this time. Chandler said the distilling industry is heavily regulated and there are strict guidelines in place for manufacturers. Additionally, equipment and facilities are expensive, and it costs a lot of money to properly market the product. Sales of spirits rely heavily on brand recognition by consumers. There is good news, however. Just as with craft beer, Arkansas lawmakers have removed some of the barriers for entry, making it easier than ever to fire up a new still. “For example, Act 706 of 2021 allows distillers to wholesale their own products,” Chandler said. “This provision allows distillers to distribute their products directly to retailers, which, theoretically, can help a distiller’s bottom line.” This mirrors the 2003 Arkansas Native Brewery Act, which allowed state breweries to distribute directly to retailers, effectively cutting out the middleman and correcting the fatal flaw of the
notorious three-tier system of distribution, under which distributors could de-prioritize small producers to benefit the corporate giants (aka, the distributors’ partners). “In addition, the statute which authorizes distilling allows distillers to sell their products for on-premises consumption any day of the week,” Chandler said. “This allows distilleries to offer samples to patrons and allows distilleries to serve as a local attraction. Also, the distillers can sell their products for off-premises consumption any day of the week.” In other words, distilleries can have tasting rooms, just like breweries. And just like beermakers, distillers can sell packaged product out the door, too. Even with these regulatory improvements, the process of distillation is itself a barrier to entry. Home distilling equipment is hard to come by and, technically, illegal. There aren’t many people who have hands-on experience making spirits. On the other hand, we all probably know people who have brewed beer on their kitchen stovetops, and most of today’s commercial brewers started out as kitchen- or garage-based hobbyists. Commercial distilling equipment comes at incredible cost and can be dangerous to operate. An explosion at Old Ed Ward’s Distillery in Newport in 2011 sent two employees to the hospital with steam burns (they eventually recovered). There are four parts to a basic whiskey still — the pot, swan neck, lyne arm and condenser. These parts work together to transform an already-fermented brew into something bigger and more refined than its original form. Different types of stills are used to produce various spirits, and individual designs can look dramatically different from one another. Another type of still popular with craft distillers is a column still. It utilizes a series of internal plates to continuously condense the alcoholic vapor, creating a spirit of up to 95% proof (pot stills generally finish in the 60-70% range). Column stills are also cool to look at, resembling a giant wind instrument, complete with tone holes. The process of distilling starts by making a mash. Hot water is added to grain (corn, wheat, barley, etc.) to convert starch into sugar. The resulting liquid — known as “wort” in the beer world — is sent to a fermenter, where yeast is added to create a fermented product known as the “wash.” After fermentation is complete, the wash is sent to the still where it is heated in the pot. Because alcohol vaporizes at a lower temperature than water, alcohol can be separated from the wash in an efficient manner. As it rises, this alcoholic vapor travels through the swan neck and lyne arm before arriving in the condenser, where it cools and turns back into liquid form. From there it is collected. Distillers often send the first-pass distillate back through the process to create double- and triple-distilled products. This further refines the spirit. What results is a raw
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form of whiskey, which can be sold immediately as moonshine or further aged in wood casks and presented as whiskey or bourbon. The process is essentially the same for other distilled products such as vodka, gin, rum, etc. The ingredients may vary, and the equipment might be set up differently, but it all boils down to creating a fermented “beer” and then separating out the alcohol through vapor distillation. That’s how they do it at Arkansas distilleries, too. Some of our distilleries are fairly well known, while others have barely garnered a mention. Their products range from whiskey, gin and vodka to pre-mixed cocktails and moonshine (which typically gets the Mason jar treatment). Not counted among them is the Pernod Ricard plant in Fort Smith, where the company bottles big-brand spirits produced in other states. Here’s a quick rundown of the nine active distilleries in the state: Rock Town Distillery (1201 Main Street, Little Rock) is probably the most talked about distillery in Arkansas. It was founded by Phil Brandon in 2010 and is said to be the state’s first legal distillery since Prohibition. It’s a boast that is technically true given the order in which federal permits were obtained, although Old Ed Ward’s Distillery in Newport opened that same year. Rock Town won a Double Gold medal for its Single Barrel Bourbon at this year’s San Francisco World Spirits Competition. Although it makes other types of spirits, the distillery is most celebrated for its lineup of whiskeys and bourbons. Fox Trail Distillery (2121 S. Bellview Road, Rogers) has found its niche in booming Northwest Arkansas. It produces small-batch vodka made from yellow corn, gin laced with Ozark botanicals, and a cold brew coffee liqueur called Oak & Bean. Open to the public since April 2019, Fox Trail’s on-premises focus is custom cocktail recipes and mixology expertise. Its location in Pinnacle Hills is a big plus, with tons of food and entertainment options nearby. Postmaster Spirits (200 Hazel Street, Newport) is located in the former Newport post office, a building that dates back to 1915. It just oozes with untold history and architectural grandeur. There was even talk a few years ago that the place is haunted. Owner Ross Jones originally got into distilling when he and partner Phillip Finch bought Old Ed Ward’s distillery and the associated license and subsequently moved the operation to its current location. Postmaster Spirits raised a few eyebrows when it unveiled an orange-flavored vodka named Trump Tonic. There’s also a peachflavored version called Mmm Peach. Crystal Ridge Distillery (455 Broadway Street, Hot Springs) held its grand opening in March 2020. Owner, president and CEO Danny Bradley earned a Ph.D. in poultry science and worked in
NOW – NOV 13 poultry nutrition before opening the distillery with his wife, Mary, and son Asher. Together they make moonshine, bourbon, whiskey and vodka. The wood-aged product is sourced from other distilleries and sold under the Crystal Ridge label. The non-aged product is made in-house. Bradley said the distillery hangs its hat on its moonshine. The old-timey aesthetic in the public tasting room makes Crystal Ridge an interesting side excursion when strolling Central Avenue. Delta Dirt Distillery (430 Cherry Street, Helena) has received a lot of positive press since opening earlier this year. Owners Harvey and Donna Williams are the backbone of the operation. Their son Thomas — who was recently featured on the Discovery Channel’s “Master Distiller” — is in charge of production. The Williams family has lived in Phillips County for four generations, and they take pride in being a part of downtown Helena. Delta Dirt makes a sweet potato and corn-based vodka referred to as Sweet Blend. Soon they’ll release Tall Cotton Gin and Delta Blues Bourbon. Hot Springs Distilling (121 Ross Street, Hot Springs) is a small operation that makes Bear Clap Bourbon, Falls Creek White Whiskey and Spa City Vodka. Keith Atkinson and his son Scott were inspired by a trip to Scotland back in 2013. The small-batch whiskeys they tasted there led them to more distillery visits back home in the U.S. Hot Springs Distilling was born in 2018, and their small tasting room opened in June of this year. Falling Rock (27377 Highway 74, Huntsville) is owned and operated by Carol and Dick Donson. They make whiskey, vodka, red rum and gin. Most notably, they partner with the RG Macon & Carson brand (named after a turn-of-the-20th century apple distillery located in Bentonville) to produce an apple brandy under the same name. Butler Creek Distilling (4937 Highway 187, Eureka Springs) has been putting whiskey into barrels since December 2019. The small distillery bottles and sells a variety of moonshine products. Owners Greg and Vicki Schneider have spent the past 10 years operating Railway Winery at “that weird little place out by Beaver.” They decided to diversify into spirits to mitigate the constant risk of floods and crop loss in their vineyard. Core Brewing & Distilling Co. (2470 N. Lowell Road, Springdale) has been brewing beer in Northwest Arkansas since 2010. The emphasis has shifted to other beverages over the past couple of years. Hard seltzers now dominate production output, and earlier this year the brewery introduced a lineup of ready-to-drink cocktails known as 25th State Craft Cocktails. Each of the three received a medal at this year’s American Distilling Institute’s Judging of Craft Spirits Awards.
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t may not be fair that the alcohol we choose sends a message about who we are, but there’s no getting around it. People are going to make assumptions based on what’s in your cup. Boxed wine is for fun moms, Coors Light is for depressed middle-aged men, vodka with Red Bull is for douchebags. Clever marketing capitalizes on these correlations and keeps them intact. When hard seltzers splashed on the scene a few years back, they were clearly intended for and quickly embraced by cute young girls hanging out near bodies of water. Bubbly, fruity and light, seltzers have the same appeal as those sorority rush week TikToks. They’re cute, and there’s no need to overthink them. Moody bourbon drinkers can scoff all they want, but hard seltzers are fun. So fun, in fact, that they pretty quickly went coed. Eased along by memes and self-deprecating humor about toxic masculinity, the bro-ification of hard seltzers is now complete. And that’s fine news for Arkansas brewers getting into the game. Ozark Beer Co. in Rogers was the first microbrewery in Arkansas to launch a hard seltzer, back in 2018 when most people still assumed they were for girls only. But even then, Ozark Beer Co. marketing director Marty Shutter suspected hard seltzers had broader appeal. “The initial market data told us the stereotypical, that it was for women in their 30s. But we knew the research was based on limited data from only a year,” Shutter said. So Ozark Beer Co. rolled out its Ozark Hard Water and watched to see who drank it. “We found almost immediately that the research was irrelevant,” he said. His assessment was confirmed when Ozark took its product to a hard seltzer festival in Denver, where the vibe was decidedly feminine. Think unicorns, roses and goat yoga. But the crowd that 36 NOVEMBER 2021
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SELTZER, BUT MAKE IT NATURE: Norfork Brewing’s seltzers are made with locally foraged sumac and elderberries. showed up was half men. He’s found hard seltzer drinkers skew younger, and tend to be more health conscious than your average craft beer drinker. Some larger scale hard seltzer makers simply add alcohol to fizzy water, but Ozark ferments its seltzer like beer, in relatively small batches. The brewery sells it mainly in its taproom. “You’ll have a group of bikers who have just ridden 50 miles, and a third of them will order seltzers,” he said. Little Rock’s Lost Forty Brewing Co. is in the third year of selling its wildly popular Punchy line, the drink of the summer for 2021 around these parts. Core Brewery and Distillery in Springdale, makers of Scarlet Letter, has also gone big with its seltzer operations, offering color-coded flavors that each combine four or five different fruits and spices. And Scarlet Letter made special holidaythemed seltzers last winter in a push to broaden their appeal from seasonal to year-round. Norfork Brewing Co. has taken almost the opposite approach from other Arkansas brewers, moving slowly and (at least initially) reluctantly into the hard seltzer market. Available only in Calico Rock, Norfork and Mountain Home
taprooms for now, Norfork’s version won’t be canned and sent to retailers until spring 2022. The burliest of the lot, Norfork’s seltzers are made with locally foraged sumac and elderberries plucked from the shores of the White River. Norfork founder Jason Aamodt admits he started fiddling with a seltzer recipe only after female employees asked him to. “I thought it was the worst idea ever and was reluctant, but it’s really good,” he said. While hard seltzers can be made a number of different ways, Aamodt took his cues from moonshiners and wine makers, starting with a sugar mash and using vintner’s tricks to extract flavorings. The result, he said, is a wine-like flavor that brings the boys to the yard. “I think they’re manly,” he said. “My sexuality is not challenged as a result of drinking seltzer.” He recommends pairing them with cheese, specifically a Grand Cru or manchego, and says they’re an appropriate choice any time of year. For bros out there who still might be reluctant to sip seltzer, maybe it will help that the packaging for Norfork’s line will have a naked lady on it. The design inspiration comes from a mural on the back of a Tulsa funeral home, of a nude woman riding a winged bicycle across the night sky.
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BEST WINE BAR Crush Wine Bar Finalists: By the Glass, The Pantry, Petit & Keet, Zin Wine Bar
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“LAWYER OF THE YEAR” Administrative / Regulatory Law Doak Foster
First Amendment Law John E. Tull III
Mergers and Acquisitions Law David A. Smith
Appellate Practice Timothy Cullen
Health Care Law Amber Wilson Bagley
Municipal Law D. Michael Moyers
Banking and Finance Law Garland W. Binns, Jr.
Insurance Law Timothy L. Boone
Nonprofit / Charities Law K. Coleman Westbrook, Jr.
Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law Lance R. Miller
Labor Law - Management Byron L. Freeland
Personal Injury Litigation Defendants Kelly Carithers Mariam T. Hopkins
Bet-the-Company Litigation Kevin A. Crass Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships) Robyn P. Allmendinger Civil Rights Law David M. Fuqua
Land Use and Zoning Law J. Cliff McKinney II Litigation - Banking and Finance Richard T. Donovan Litigation - Bankruptcy Harry A. Light Litigation - Construction Junius Bracy Cross, Jr. Jason H. Wales
Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs Jason M. Hatfield Robert Sexton Phillip J. Wells Product Liability Litigation Defendants Scott D. Provencher Product Liability Litigation Plaintiffs Robert M. Cearley, Jr.
Construction Law Jack East III Susan K. Kendall
Litigation - Environmental Julie DeWoody Greathouse
Corporate Law Bryan W. Duke James W. Smith
Litigation - Insurance Barrett Deacon Edward T. Oglesby
Criminal Defense: General Practice Doug Norwood Jeffrey M. Rosenzweig
Litigation - Labor and Employment Brandon B. Cate John D. Coulter
Criminal Defense: White-Collar J. Blake Hendrix
Litigation - Real Estate John Keeling Baker L. Kyle Heffley
Real Estate Law James C. Clark
Litigation - Trusts and Estates Allison J. Cornwell
Securities / Capital Markets Law Paul Parnell
Litigation and Controversy - Tax Matthew Boch
Tax Law C. Brantly Buck Denton Woods
Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law Alexandra A. Ifrah Employment Law - Individuals Elizabeth Robben Murray Employment Law - Management William Stuart Jackson Energy Law Scott C. Trotter Environmental Law Brian Rosenthal Family Law Sam Hilburn 44 NOVEMBER 2021
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Trusts and Estates Collier Moore Dan C. Young Workers’ Compensation Law Employers Michael E. Ryburn R. Scott Zuerker
THANK YOU FOR VOTING DOUG NORWOOD LAWYER OF THE YEAR DOUG NORWOOD
ONCE AGAIN WE CONGRATULATE DOUG NORWOOD ON BEING INCLUDED IN THE 2022 EDITION OF THE BEST LAWYERS IN AMERICA® FOR CRIMINAL DEFENSE: GENERAL PRACTICE, AND DUI/DWI DEFENSE.
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CONGRATULATIONS! Eight lawyers from Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone, P.A. were recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2022. Timothy L. Boone was named the Best Lawyers® 2022 Insurance Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Little Rock.
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R. SHANE STRABALA
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Administrative / Regulatory Law Emily Mizell Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville Stuart L. Spencer Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock Antitrust Law Katherine C. Campbell Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers Appellate Practice Kael K. Bowling Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers Katherine C. Campbell Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers Charles C. Cunningham ARlaw Partners 501-710-6500 415 North McKinley Street, Suite 830 Little Rock Kathy McCarroll Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock
Bo Renner RMP 479-443-2705 5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale
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Molly S. Shepherd PPGMR Law 870-862-5523 100 East Church Street El Dorado Banking and Finance Law Joseph D. Allen Smith Hurst 479-301-2444 Hunt Tower, Suite 900 Rogers Melissa Bandy Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock Kael K. Bowling Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers Jacob P. Fair Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock R. Seth Hampton Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock Lindsey Emerson Raines Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock Allison Raley Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650 4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law Kael K. Bowling Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers Ben Perry Kersten, Lambert, & Perry 501-760-0882 Three Financial Center Building Little Rock
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Brooklyn Parker Jason Owens Law Firm 501-764-4334 1023 Main Street, Suite 203 Conway
Jacob P. Fair Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock
Quinten J. Whiteside Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock
Allison Raley Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650 4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers
Madeline Taylor Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock
Robert A. Gaines Steel Wright Gray 501-251-1587 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2910 Little Rock
Thomas H. Wyatt Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock
Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships) Joseph D. Allen Smith Hurst 479-301-2444 Hunt Tower, Suite 900 Rogers David Biscoe Bingham Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock Wade Bowen Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 870-938-6262 100 East Huntington Avenue, Suite C Jonesboro Ashley L. Gill Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock Maya S. Goree Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 888-371-9116 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock Sidney L. Leasure Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock Blake D. Lewis Hyden, Miron & Foster 501-482-1787 901 North University Little Rock
Civil Rights Law Caitlin Campbell Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 888-371-9116 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock Commercial Litigation John E. Alexander Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650 4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers J. Lauren Ball Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro Kael K. Bowling Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers Matthew L. Brunson Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock Katherine C. Campbell Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers Meredith M. Causey Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock Philip A. Elmore Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 479-444-5200 4100 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 310 Springdale
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Micah Goodwin Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650 4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers Nicholas D. Hornung Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock Jessica Pruitt Koehler Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock Kathy McCarroll Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock Brooklyn Parker Jason Owens Law Firm 501-764-4334 1023 Main Street, Suite 203 Conway Justin E. Parkey Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro Bo Renner RMP 479-443-2705 5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale Samuel T. Waddell Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro
Construction Law Robert A. Gaines Steel Wright Gray 501-251-1587 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2910 Little Rock Kathy McCarroll Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock Corporate Governance and Compliance Law Pierce G. Hunter Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock Blake D. Lewis Hyden, Miron & Foster 501-482-1787 901 North University Little Rock Corporate Law Celina J. Banwarth Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650 4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers Michael Goswami Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock Pierce G. Hunter Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock William R. Mullen Smith Hurst 479-301-2444 Hunt Tower, Suite 900 Rogers
Natalie E. Ramm Legal Aid of Arkansas 870-972-9224 711 Towne Oaks Drive Little Rock Criminal Defense: General Practice Degen D. Clow Wilson & Haubert 501-372-1212 One Riverfront Place, Suite 745 North Little Rock Education Law Devin R. Bates Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock Matthew F. Benson Hogue Law Firm 479-444-6311 27 West Township Road Fayetteville Elder Law Brandon M. Haubert Wilson & Haubert 501-372-1212 One Riverfront Place, Suite 745 North Little Rock Energy Law Stuart L. Spencer Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock Madeline Taylor Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock Environmental Law R. Seth Hampton Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock Stuart L. Spencer Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock
Family Law Charles C. Cunningham ARlaw Partners 501-710-6500 415 North McKinley Street, Suite 830 Little Rock
Kelly D. Marchand Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock
Andrea McCurdy McCurdy Law & Mediation 479-439-8881 1845 Main Drive Fayetteville
Kathy McCarroll Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock
Haley Smith Owens Mixon and Gramling 870-551-3989 100 East Matthews Avenue Jonesboro
Samuel T. Waddell Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro
Health Care Law Eric D. Jackson Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 234 East Millsap Road, Suite 200 Fayetteville Emily Mizell Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville Anna Regnier Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650 4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers Amie K. Wilcox Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock Immigration Law Caitlin Campbell Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 888-371-9116 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock Allison Pearson Rhodes Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock Insurance Law John E. Alexander Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650 4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers
Quinten J. Whiteside Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock Intellectual Property Law K. Brandon Middleton Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock Lindsey Emerson Raines Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock Labor and Employment Law - Employee Chris W. Burks Wilson & Haubert 501-372-1212 One Riverfront Place, Suite 745 North Little Rock Caitlin Campbell Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 888-371-9116 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock Labor and Employment Law - Management Devin R. Bates Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock
Maggie Benson Littler 479-582-6100 The Fulbright Building, Suite 204 Fayetteville Mary Buckley Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 888-371-9116 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock Caitlin Campbell Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 888-371-9116 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock Katherine C. Campbell Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers Joseph M. Kraska Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 888-371-9116 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock Allison Pearson Rhodes Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock Land Use and Zoning Law Michael Goswami Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock Litigation - Banking and Finance Jacob P. Fair Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock Andrew Tarvin Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 234 East Millsap Road, Suite 200 Fayetteville
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Litigation - Bankruptcy Brandon M. Haubert Wilson & Haubert 501-372-1212 One Riverfront Place, Suite 745 North Little Rock
Michael Berry Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 888-371-9116 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock
Litigation - Construction John E. Alexander Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650 4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers
Mary Buckley Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 888-371-9116 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock
Payton C. Bentley Clark Law Firm 479-856-6380 121 West South Street Fayetteville Kael K. Bowling Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers Robert A. Gaines Steel Wright Gray 501-251-1587 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2910 Little Rock Litigation - Intellectual Property K. Brandon Middleton Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock Litigation - Labor and Employment Maggie Benson Littler 479-582-6100 The Fulbright Building, Suite 204 Fayetteville Payton C. Bentley Clark Law Firm 479-856-6380 121 West South Street Fayetteville
Caitlin Campbell Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 888-371-9116 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock Katherine C. Campbell Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers Alexander D. Clark Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 888-371-9116 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock Joseph M. Kraska Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 888-371-9116 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock Brooklyn Parker Jason Owens Law Firm 501-764-4334 1023 Main Street, Suite 203 Conway Litigation - Real Estate Payton C. Bentley Clark Law Firm 479-856-6380 121 West South Street Fayetteville Kael K. Bowling Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers Andrew Tarvin Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 234 East Millsap Road, Suite 200 Fayetteville
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Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions Defendants Graham C. Talley Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants Tyler D. Bone Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock Dustin Darst RMP 870-394-5200 710 Windover Road, Suite B Jonesboro Dustin K. Doty Wright Lindsey Jennings 479-986-0888 3333 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 510 Rogers Jordan Broyles Hallenbeck Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock Caitlin D. Kennedy Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock Jessica Pruitt Koehler Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock Justin E. Parkey Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro Glenn S. Ritter Wright Lindsey Jennings 479-986-0888 3333 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 510 Rogers Samuel T. Waddell Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro 48 NOVEMBER 2021
Mergers and Acquisitions Law Katie W. Branscum Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock Thomas W. Haynes Snellgrove, Langley, Culpepper, Williams & Mullally 870-932-8357 111 East Huntington Avenue, Second Floor Jonesboro Pierce G. Hunter Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock Blake D. Lewis Hyden, Miron & Foster 501-482-1787 901 North University Little Rock William R. Mullen Smith Hurst 479-301-2444 Hunt Tower, Suite 900 Rogers Municipal Law Mary Buckley Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 888-371-9116 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock Natural Resources Law Micah Goodwin Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650 4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers R. Seth Hampton Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock Nonprofit / Charities Law Natalie E. Ramm Legal Aid of Arkansas 870-972-9224 711 Towne Oaks Drive Little Rock
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Oil and Gas Law M. Christine Dillard PPGMR Law 501-603-9000 201 East Markham Street, Suite 200 Little Rock Micah Goodwin Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650 4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers Patent Law Josh Hallenbeck Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants Adam D. Franks Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400 Little Rock Kyle D. Kennedy Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock Kelly D. Marchand Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock Graham C. Talley Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs Robert Wells Wells & Wells 870-782-4084 225 South Church Street Jonesboro Product Liability Litigation - Defendants Nicholas D. Hornung Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock
Jessica Pruitt Koehler Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock Graham C. Talley Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock Public Finance Law Ashley Edwards Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock Sarah Giammo Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock Kirby D. Miraglia Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock Real Estate Law Joseph D. Allen Smith Hurst 479-301-2444 Hunt Tower, Suite 900 Rogers Melissa Bandy Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock Katie W. Branscum Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock Nathan D. Coulter Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock Michael Goswami Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock
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R. Seth Hampton Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock Thomas W. Haynes Snellgrove, Langley, Culpepper, Williams & Mullally 870-932-8357 111 East Huntington Avenue, Second Floor Jonesboro
Kasper Huber RMP 479-443-2705 5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale Bo Renner RMP 479-443-2705 5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale Madeline Taylor Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock Securities / Capital Markets Law Joseph D. Allen Smith Hurst 479-301-2444 Hunt Tower, Suite 900 Rogers Katie W. Branscum Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock Pierce G. Hunter Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock
Blake D. Lewis Hyden, Miron & Foster 501-482-1787 901 North University Little Rock Tax Law David Biscoe Bingham Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock Wade Bowen Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 870-938-6262 100 East Huntington Avenue, Suite C Jonesboro Kayleigh C. Dulaney Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock Ashley L. Gill Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock Sidney L. Leasure Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock Blake D. Lewis Hyden, Miron & Foster 501-482-1787 901 North University Little Rock William R. Mullen Smith Hurst 479-301-2444 Hunt Tower, Suite 900 Rogers Transportation Law Quinten J. Whiteside Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock Trusts and Estates David Biscoe Bingham Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock
Wade Bowen Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 870-938-6262 100 East Huntington Avenue, Suite C Jonesboro Kayleigh C. Dulaney Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock Ashley L. Gill Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock
Thomas W. Haynes Snellgrove, Langley, Culpepper, Williams & Mullally 870-932-8357 111 East Huntington Avenue, Second Floor Jonesboro
Andrea McCurdy McCurdy Law & Mediation 479-439-8881 1845 Main Drive Fayetteville
Kasper Huber RMP 479-443-2705 5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale Joseph M. Kraska Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 888-371-9116 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock
C. Ryan O’Quinn Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock Natalie E. Ramm Legal Aid of Arkansas 870-972-9224 711 Towne Oaks Drive Little Rock
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Frederick K. Campbell Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock
Robert W. George Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers
John D. Davis Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock Doak Foster Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock Christopher J. Heller Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock Drake Mann Gill Ragon Owen 501-376-3800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock Lee J. Muldrow Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock N. M. Norton Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock Derrick W. Smith Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock Jeffrey H. Thomas Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock 50 NOVEMBER 2021
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E.B. Chiles IV Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock
Constance G. Clark Davis, Butt, Taylor & Clark 479-521-7600 75 North East Avenue, Suite 402 Fayetteville
John J. Mikesch Taylor Law Partners 479-316-6300 303 East Millsap Road Fayetteville
Frank S. Hamlin Hamlin Dispute Resolution 501-850-8888 1101 West Second Street Little Rock
Brian A. Pipkin Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock
Robert E. Hornberger Robert E. Hornberger Attorney/Mediator 479-459-7878 404 North Seventh Street Fort Smith
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Troy A. Price Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock
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G. Spence Fricke Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400 Little Rock
Robert S. Shafer Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock
Jess L. Askew III Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock
Julie DeWoody Greathouse PPGMR Law 501-603-9000 201 East Markham Street, Suite 200 Little Rock
Andrew M. Taylor Taylor & Taylor Law Firm 501-246-8004 12921 Cantrell Road, Suite 205 Little Rock
M. Stephen Bingham Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 888-371-9116 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock
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Misty Borkowski Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 888-371-9116 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock
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John V. Phelps Womack Phelps Puryear Mayfield & McNeil 870-932-0900 Century Center Jonesboro Clifford W. Plunkett Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers Scott D. Provencher Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock
Gordon S. Rather, Jr. Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock Emily M. Runyon Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock Jerry J. Sallings Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock Michael N. Shannon Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock
Scott Tidwell Matthews, Campbell, Rhoads, McClure & Thompson 479-282-2586 119 South Second Street Rogers James W. Tilley Watts, Donovan, Tilley & Carson 501-372-1406 2120 Riverfront Drive, Suite 275 Little Rock John E. Tull III Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock Frederick S. Ursery Friday Eldredge & Clark 501-376-2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock
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Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs Frank H. Bailey Bailey & Oliver Law Firm 479-202-5200 3606 West Southern Hills Boulevard, Suite 200 Rogers Robert L. Beard Rainwater, Holt & Sexton 501-868-2500 801 Technology Drive Little Rock H. David Blair Blair & Stroud 870-793-8350 500 East Main Street, Suite 201 Batesville Will Bond McMath Woods 501-213-3447 711 West Third Street Little Rock Bill W. Bristow Bristow & Richardson 870-935-9000 216 East Washington Avenue Jonesboro Robert M. Cearley, Jr. Cearley Law Firm 501-372-5600 901 North University Avenue Little Rock Neil Chamberlin McMath Woods 501-213-3447 711 West Third Street Little Rock Timothy O. Dudley Timothy O. Dudley 501-372-0080 114 South Pulaski Street Little Rock B. Michael Easley Easley & Houseal 870-330-0015 510 East Cross Street Forrest City
Jason M. Hatfield Law Office of Jason M. Hatfield 479-316-3280 1025 E. Don Tyson Pkway Springdale
Brent L. Moss Reddick Moss 877-907-7790 One Information Way, Suite 105 Little Rock
Denise Reid Hoggard Rainwater, Holt & Sexton 501-868-2500 801 Technology Drive Little Rock
Jeff R. Priebe Rainwater, Holt & Sexton 501-868-2500 801 Technology Drive Little Rock
Paul J. James James & Carter 866-716-3242 500 Broadway, Suite 400 Little Rock
John Rainwater Rainwater, Holt & Sexton 501-868-2500 801 Technology Drive Little Rock
Sarah C. Jewell McMath Woods 501-213-3447 525 South School Avenue, Suite 310 Fayetteville
Michael R. Rainwater Rainwater, Holt & Sexton 501-868-2500 801 Technology Drive Little Rock
Donald B. Kendall Kendall Law Firm 479-464-9828 3706 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 201 Rogers Kenneth J. Kieklak Ken Kieklak, Attorney at Law 479-262-9766 3900 North Front Street, Suite 103 Fayetteville Jerry L. Lovelace Roy, Lambert, Lovelace, Bingaman & Wood 479-320-2300 2706 South Dividend Drive Springdale Lauren Manatt Rainwater, Holt & Sexton 501-868-2500 801 Technology Drive Little Rock Bobby R. McDaniel McDaniel Law Firm 870-336-4747 400 South Main Street Jonesboro
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M. Stephen Bingham Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 888-371-9116 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock Timothy L. Boone Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock Mark Breeding Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock J. R. Carroll Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 234 East Millsap Road, Suite 200 Fayetteville E.B. Chiles IV Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock G. Spence Fricke Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400 Little Rock Sarah Greenwood Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock
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Product Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs Frank H. Bailey Bailey & Oliver Law Firm 479-202-5200 3606 West Southern Hills Boulevard, Suite 200 Rogers
Michael N. Shannon Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock
H. David Blair Blair & Stroud 870-793-8350 500 East Main Street, Suite 201 Batesville
Julie M. Hancock Anderson Murphy Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2400 Little Rock
John E. Tull III Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock
Scott A. Irby Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock
Michael P. Vanderford Anderson Murphy Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2400 Little Rock
Sarah C. Jewell McMath Woods 501-213-3447 525 South School Avenue, Suite 310 Fayetteville
Jerry L. Lovelace Roy, Lambert, Lovelace, Bingaman & Wood 479-320-2300 2706 South Dividend Drive Springdale
Richard N. Watts Watts, Donovan, Tilley & Carson 501-372-1406 2120 Riverfront Drive, Suite 275 Little Rock
Jerry L. Lovelace Roy, Lambert, Lovelace, Bingaman & Wood 479-320-2300 2706 South Dividend Drive Springdale
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Brett A. McDaniel McDaniel Law Firm 870-336-4747 400 South Main Street Jonesboro Michael N. Shannon Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock John E. Tull III Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock Clyde Talbot Turner Turner & Associates 501-791-2277 4705 Somers Avenue, Suite 100 North Little Rock Bud B. Whetstone Whetstone Law Firm 501-376-3564 Pavilion Centre, Suite 230 Little Rock George R. Wise, Jr. The Brad Hendricks Law Firm 501-550-4090 500 Pleasant Valley Drive, Building C Little Rock Professional Malpractice Law - Defendants H. David Blair Blair & Stroud 870-793-8350 500 East Main Street, Suite 201 Batesville David M. Powell Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock Scott D. Provencher Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock Michael P. Vanderford Anderson Murphy Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2400 Little Rock
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ATHLETICS AT PCSSD The Pulaski County Special School District boasts many dedicated educators and administrators from 27 schools across central Arkansas, which now includes the DRIVEN Virtual Academy. These educators have dedicated their careers to investing in young people, and athletic coaches are no different. In addition to duties in the classroom, PCSSD coaches dedicate their time to our student athletes after school, during practice, and at games. Our schools offer a variety of athletic opportunities for our secondary students: baseball, basketball, cheer, cross country, football, golf, soccer, softball, track and field, volleyball, and wrestling. Some schools even offer archery, bowling, diving, esports, swimming, and tennis.
integrity in every student athlete. Since the 2015-2016 school year, student athletes at PCSSD high schools have been awarded 45 athletic college scholarships. “Studies have shown that students who participate in extracurricular activities in high school have higher graduation rates, lower discipline issues, better attendance, and higher grades than students who do not participate,” said Robinson Athletic Director Todd Eskola. “Athletics and other extracurricular activities are essential to a well rounded educational experience for our high school students.
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HANDLE WITH CARE CELEBRATING NATIONAL FAMILY CAREGIVERS MONTH. BY KATHERINE WYRICK
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ormer first lady and lifelong activist Rosalynn Carter once said, “There are only four kinds of people in the world: Those who have been caregivers. Those who are currently caregivers. Those who will be caregivers, and those who will need a caregiver.” (This, in stark contrast to that other first lady who infamously wore a jacket to a migrant shelter that read, “I really don’t care, do u?”) We’re reminded of Carter’s words each November during National Family Caregivers Month, a time set aside to recognize and honor caregivers across the country. The special month provides an opportunity to raise awareness about caregiving issues and increase support for caregivers. According to AARP, there are nearly 500,000 unpaid family caregivers in Arkansas alone — a “silent army that performs Herculean tasks for their loved ones.” Many of them are trying to balance those duties with full-time jobs and other family responsibilities. It’s a tough job that often goes unseen, unappreciated and unpaid. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that Arkansas is one of four states with the highest prevalence of unpaid caregivers. In the United States about one in five adults is providing unpaid health or supportive care to someone they love — an aging parent, a family member or child with a disability, or a spouse, partner or friend with an illness. It’s worth noting that over half of family caregivers are women. Children, however, do it, too. Over a million American young people, ages 8 to 18, care for adult relatives on a daily basis. Caretaking takes many forms. Whatever your role, Central Arkansas has many resources.
PRIORITIZING MENTAL HEALTH
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person. Their programs are based upon the concept that each person has an inherent capacity to learn and grow; they offer diagnostic and evaluation services, medication management, individual, family and group therapy, recreational therapy, dietary services, case management and discharge planning. The serene setting is an added bonus. On 18 acres, perched atop a forested ridge overlooking the Arkansas River Valley, the campus invites reflection and promotes healing (while also affording privacy to patients and visitors). There are few facilities like it in the region. Bruce Trimble, director of business development, told us about what he believes makes The BridgeWay different: “The BridgeWay was founded in response to a community need for quality mental health care. In 1983, two health care pioneers, Stuart Harris, M.D., and Joe Backus, M.D., recognized that Arkansans needed quality mental health care and partnered with Universal Health Services to open the first private freestanding psychiatric hospital in the state. At that time, the facility comprised 60 beds and served children, adolescents and adults of all ages through inpatient and partial hospitalization. Since then, the hospital has expanded along with the needs of Arkansans to include 127 inpatient beds, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient for people of all ages. With an empathetic approach toward providing quality patient care, The BridgeWay has been the bridge for Arkansans crossing from turbulent waterways to still waters.” The pandemic has taken a huge toll on school-age children and young adults, and mental health issues are on the rise nationwide. Courtney Phaup, Ph.D., director of education, offered this insight into how the pandemic has affected mental health among children: “I noticed last year how much children rely on school and how the lack of attending school in person can affect their mental health. The day after the governor announced that the school would not meet again for the remainder of the school year, we saw an increase in admissions to our acute program for children and adolescents and a residential program for adolescents. Patients in both programs attend school here as part of their treatment.” Jeffrey Palmer, M.D., medical director of child and adolescent psychiatry for inpatient and residential treatment, added, “Most of my patients have a new appreciation for their social support system and their value on in-person interactions. While many adults and kids
were initially excited about not attending work or school personally, most are now hoping for a permanent return. And they have a deeper understanding of the benefit of face-to-face interactions and the realization there is usually better productivity outside the home. “Also, many patients I see are setting better limits with social media and the 24/7 news cycle. I suspect this is a combination of the pandemic and recent political and civil unrest. They understand that being constantly bombarded with bad news and crises is not healthy. They want to know what’s going on. However, they are now taking ‘small sips from a cup rather than trying to drink from the fire hydrant.’ ” That’s advice we could all heed. Methodist Family Health has a long history of helping children and families in Arkansas. Today, Methodist Family Health manages the Methodist Children’s Home, Methodist Behavioral Hospital, Methodist Counseling Clinics and Arkansas CARES (Center for Addictions Research, Education and Services). They offer levels of care ranging from the most restrictive service level (acute psychiatric hospital care) to the least restrictive service level (outpatient counseling), as well as all intermediate residential levels of care. Methodist Family Health provides inpatient psychiatric hospitalization for children ages 3 to 17; outpatient counseling clinics; grief counseling services; psychiatric residential treatment centers; therapeutic group homes; school-based counseling services; therapeutic day treatment programs for kindergarten through 12th grades; and Arkansas CARES for mothers struggling with both substance abuse and a mental health issue.
COMMON CHALLENGES FOR CAREGIVERS
• Time management. Caregivers often find they have less time for themselves and other family members. • Emotional and physical stress. • Financial strain. • Sleep loss. • A reluctance to ask for help. • Depression and isolation. • Practicing self-care.
Its goal is for clients to become proficient in social and independent living skills so they can reunite with family or move to the least restrictive residential treatment setting appropriate for them, such as a therapeutic foster home, or reenter the community as an adult. For those in crisis, Methodist has 24-hour, confidential, no-charge assessments for children and adolescents and accepts Medicaid and most private insurance. Founded in 1884 as an orphanage called the Children’s Aid Society, The Centers is the longest-running nonprofit in the state. For more than 130 years it has been committed to caring for vulnerable children and families. Abby Jennings of The Centers said, “Today, we are proud to meet the unique and evolving needs of individuals of all ages by providing comprehensive, integrated care that promotes physical, emotional and social wellness. We
CareLink has been caring for families in Central Arkansas since 1979. Whether you’re looking for respite, someone to care for an aging loved one, or someone to care for you, CareLink has the resources to help caregivers care for themselves. As well as the training to make sure those in need get quality assistance. Call CareLink’s Information & Assistance Specialists today to find out if in-home care is the right choice for you or a loved one at 501.372.5300.
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run the largest therapeutic foster care program in the state, which recruits foster parents to care for foster youth who are experiencing behavioral or psychological challenges. In our residential programs in Little Rock and Monticello, we care for behaviorally or emotionally challenged children and teens who need a safe place to stay while benefiting from around-theclock counseling, educational and wraparound services.” In 2019 The Centers expanded its work to care for adults through its new role as the area’s Community Mental Health Center. It does this by offering a wide range of outpatient services for the whole family — counseling and therapy, medication management, substance abuse treatment and more. Jennings said that one of the things that sets Centers apart is its focus on the whole family. “When our organization expanded in 2019 to serve adults,” she said, “we became one of the few service providers in our area that truly cares for the whole family’s mental and behavioral health needs. Whether your 10-year-old son or daughter or 70-yearold mother or father needs support, The Centers can help. Additionally, because we offer different levels of care, we are here for families no matter where they are in their journeys to a healthier and happier life.” The Centers also offers a specialty treatment track for victims and survivors of human/sex trafficking. Its clinicians in the Human Trafficking Treatment Program are specially trained to aid survivors in healing from the trauma of being trafficked, and its wrap-around services enable survivors to plan for a safe, stable and happy future.
MEETING THE CHALLENGES OF AGING
CareLink is a nonprofit that has been serving homebound and active older people and their family caregivers for 40 years. Its mission is to connect older people and their families with resources to meet the opportunities and challenges of aging. It can be tough to navigate this season of life, but CareLink can help. Asked about meeting these challenges while in the midst of a pandemic, Meredith Hale, director of development and marketing at CareLink, said, “Like everyone else, we have had to adapt over and over to make sure we are meeting people where they are in life with the help they need. We’ve had a great community rise up around us that has made many of those adaptations possible and we 82 NOVEMBER 2021
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are so thankful and proud to say we have not had to stop a single service for anyone. In addition to adaptations and everything that comes with them, we have seen an influx of requests for in-home care, which means we need more caregivers than before to meet that growing need.” Caregiving, however, is not for the faint of heart. Asked if she believes it’s a calling, Hale said, “Absolutely. It takes a lot of work, heart and emotion to care for another person.
FAMILY HEALTH RESOURCES THE BRIDGEWAY
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Little Rock: 501-666-8686 Monticello: 870-460-0066 Toll-Free: 888-868-0023 centersforyouthandfamilies.net
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Not everyone has that, and it’s OK. We are all called to do different things, but to be called to care for another is unlike any other.” For those seeking help caring for a family member, Hale offered this advice: “First and foremost, ask for help. You cannot and should not care for another on your own. Know there are resources available and people waiting to connect you with them. For instance, if you call CareLink’s information and assistance specialists, they’ll listen to your story to determine what resources and services might best fit your and your loved one’s needs. They’ll then help you get those in place. But if there’s one thing you take away, it’s ask for help and give yourself grace.”
CARING THROUGH ADVOCACY
For 40 years, Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families has been fighting the good fight for Arkansas children — and it’s often been an uphill battle. Its mission is to ensure that all children and their families have the resources and opportunities to lead healthy and productive lives and to realize their full potential. To that end, it provides data-driven information to lawmakers and the public through research, advocacy and training. We asked communications director Brooke Edwards about how they’ve navigated the pandemic coupled with some off-the-rails legislative sessions. She responded, “As much misery as the pandemic brought, it also resulted in some good public policy solutions we hope will become permanent. For example, at the federal and state levels, we’ve seen more investments in kids, from the expanded child tax credit to funding for afterschool programs and universal school meals. And there’s an increased awareness of how public policy decisions have hurt Arkansas’s communities of color. We would never want to repeat the pandemic, but we hope that what we’ve learned will help guide policy decisions toward a more equitable future.” How can you help support kids in Arkansas through advocacy? Edwards suggested, “There are many ways people can engage in advocacy. Tell friends how public policies can shape childhood experiences and outcomes in our state. Follow our work on social media and share with your personal networks. Donate. Subscribe to our emails and action alerts. Register people to vote. Host a house (or virtual) party to introduce us to your friends and neighbors.”
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CULTURE BATTLE ROYALE: A meticulously rendered clash (right) was among the tattoo designs in a book belonging to Arkansan Tom Musser (bottom right), published in full in a new book, “Floating West.”
AN EAGLE FIGHTING A DRAGON FIGHTING A SNAKE A RARE SILK BOOKLET OF ANTIQUE JAPANESE TATTOO ART HAS BEEN UNEARTHED IN FULL, AND THE PURPLE HANDWRITING ALL OVER IT LIKELY BELONGS TO AN ARKANSAS FARMER. BY STEPHANIE SMITTLE
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omehow, a singularly rare specimen of antique Japanese tattoo flash made its way into the hands of a working-class Arkansan who never traveled much of anywhere. Now, after sitting for decades in a trunk in Oklahoma, its contents have been reproduced meticulously in a new book called “Floating West,” shining light on a sparsely documented era of the inky art form. Back in the early 1900s, America was harboring a big ol’ crush on Japanese culture. (Some things never change.) Part of that fascination was (and is) Western colonialism writ large, no doubt; encroachment by U.S. Navy warships forced Japan to end its isolationist policies in 1868, and the doors of trade and travel were gradually pried open for foreign nationals — those with enough cash and cachet to make the trip, anyway. Rich
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HEIRLOOM: The silk pages on which the tattoo flash appears, researchers say, is fabric typical of a woman’s kimono.
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Europeans and Americans alike returned home with symbols of the exotic, which then served as both family souvenirs and trophies to trot out at parties. They brought back hand-painted fans, lacquered hardwood cabinets inlaid with ivory and mother-ofpearl, translucent enamel bowls. And tattoos. Though Indigenous North Americans had been tattooing for centuries, it was the Japanese aesthetic that fueled a burgeoning “American Traditional” style, and to be an 1880s tourist returning stateside with a sweet dragon tat across your back was to be the talk of the town. There’s a photo in “Floating West” of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s son, Charles — eyes obscured by a black mask, handlebar mustache, sleeved from wrist to wrist in dragonflies, leaves and geishas, his chest covered by a Buddha meditating serenely in the jaws of a dragon — and it’s easy to imagine the poet’s son shedding his shirt after a few drinks to delight and/or scandalize guests at an upper crust soirée. (Accounts from those in Longfellow’s circle testify that this very thing happened, more than once.) When the Japanese government, as part of its reinvention strategy, banned tattooists from inking Japanese citizens, the island’s tattoo artists fled to the treaty ports to work on tourists. Some left for England, Australia and the U.S. and adapted their flash to suit the tastes of sailors and adventurers like Longfellow. Artifacts of tattoo flash — the designs tattooists display for potential clients — from this particular era are pretty scarce. So, when photos of an immaculate set of hand-painted Meiji-era designs popped up on Pinterest, a Texas-based tattooist named Nick York raised his eyebrows. York works in Denton, Texas, at a place called Dark Age Tattoo. He describes his style as “American Traditional, with a heavy emphasis on the history and antique designs.” Like most artists working in that style, York is fond of bold black lines and animal imagery. But his fondness is, shall we say, not exactly casual. York has, as far as he knows, the world’s largest collection of antique “cabinet card” photographs of tattooed performers and tattoo artists. He has amassed hundreds of other examples of early 1900s tattoo memorabilia, not the least of which is the tattoo machine he actually uses on his clients, day in and day out. “If you come and get tattooed by me,” he said, “it is in every way like getting tattooed 100 years ago, except the needles are cleaner.” He’s constantly searching for new objects to peruse. “If you have recently come across an old photo of someone with tattoos and want to find out more,” York’s website reads, “please contact me! Day or night. Even if it’s 3 a.m.” Every now and then, York told me, he has dreams that he finds a treasure trove full of antique tattoo flash in an old house. He wakes up disappointed. York told Derin Bray, a New Hampshire-based antique dealer and fellow tattoo history buff, about the unusual booklet of flash from Pinterest. Turns out, Bray not only knew about it, he’d been hired to appraise it a few years earlier. That commission came from a woman living in Oklahoma, Alisa Welch. The book belonged to her grandfather, a jack-of-all-trades named Tom Musser. She’d been keeping the relic in a trunk of family heirlooms among other items of
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“IT’S BIZARRE — THE FACT THAT SOME RANDOM DUDE IN ARKANSAS HAD IT.” Musser’s — his journals, his fountain pens, a Lucky Strike tobacco tin filled with mugshots. “She didn’t know what she had,” York said, and wanted to find out more about it. There were clues that he’d dabbled in tattoo work in the daybooks he kept, but they were brief and cryptic: a ledger of family members and friends on whom he’d done 25- and 50-cent tattoos. The address for a mailorder tattoo kit company. Rudimentary doodles of daggers and stars and hearts and a horse with the date Mar. 3, 1912, scribbled across its body. In 1912, Thomas Jefferson Musser was working as a grocery store clerk on Little Rock’s Wright Avenue. Musser was in his late 20s then, lanky and lean and mustachioed, and he put his hands to work as a mail carrier, a photo developer, a butcher and a carpenter over the course of his time in the state capital, city directories attest. Judging by the drawings in those daybooks, he was no tattoo virtuoso, nor is it clear he stuck with the hobby for very long. There’s a record of him tattooing blue dots — probably as an identification marker — on members of the Little Rock-based Hamilton family, one of whom, nicknamed “Suda,” would eventually become his wife. So how did a landlocked-for-life tattoo novice like Musser get his hands on a world-class vestige of tattoo history, and who painted it? Nobody really knows, and it’s not for lack of trying. Bray and York consulted museum experts in Boston, London and Tokyo. Historians in Newcastle and New York weighed in. A paper conservator from the Harvard Library conducted fiber microscopy on the book and found that it had been bound with silk typical of a Japanese woman’s workaday kimono. “We were interested in the materials,” Bray said, “and all signs pointed to Japan. Traditional side-stitch binding, meant to be read from back to front.” About four or five such books exist in the world, Bray said, two of which have never left Japan. “For whatever reason, the examples aren’t known or they just didn’t survive. The material hasn’t surfaced.”
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“It’s bizarre,” York said. “The fact that some random dude in Arkansas had it.” They questioned whether it had belonged to Musser at all, but the scattershot prices added in pen next to each of the paintings appear to match Musser’s handwriting, and a dagger design from the Japanese book appears in Musser’s journal. When all was said and done, York bought the thing from Welch for $20,000, along with a few other items of Musser’s — the fountain pens, the daybooks, a photo of Musser. Holding the 130-year-old silk book, York said, blew him away. His favorite of the bunch is a battle royale — “an eagle fighting a dragon fighting a snake.” “It was surreal,” he said. He had a short bout of buyer’s remorse. “I was like, ‘Fuck.’ ‘Cause it was during quarantine and some shit, and I was like, ‘This is the dumbest move. This is the biggest waste of money. I’m just gonna buy this book and put it in my closet and not do anything with it.’ ” Luckily, that didn’t happen. Designs from the book can be spotted on the arms of York’s clients via his Instagram feed and in “Floating West,” which came out Oct. 14 and shows the paintings in full. It’s the second title from Rake House, a small press Bray co-founded to specialize in “deeply researched and well-written books about tattoo history.” And Welch, during a trip down to Texas to shore up the sale, ended up asking York to tattoo a blue dot on her hand, similar to the one her grandfather had imprinted on her grandmother in Little Rock in the 1910s, around the time the Meiji era of Japan was nearing an end.
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group that failed to get a recreational marijuana amendment on the ballot four years ago and sued the attorney general over procedural issues hopes to give Arkansas voters a chance to legalize recreational marijuana next year. Arkansas True Grass, a group of marijuana advocates and volunteers, is gathering signatures for a constitutional amendment that would allow Arkansans aged 21 and over to purchase up to four ounces of marijuana a day and grow up to 12 plants of their own. The group needs 89,151 verified signatures to make the November 2022 ballot. The deadline to submit petitions is July 8, 2022. Known as The Arkansas Recreational Marijuana Amendment of 2022, the measure would permit marijuana for recreational use and would not require users to register with the state or obtain a card to make purchases. The amendment would not make any changes to the state medical marijuana program, which voters passed in 2016. The new measure would also expand the number of businesses allowed to sell marijuana. The amendment allows for an unlimited number of business licenses, which spokeswoman Briana Boling said would be “affordable” and would be administered by the state Department of Agriculture. Under the state’s medical marijuana program, the Medical Marijuana Commission licenses dispensaries and cultivators, while the Alcoholic Beverage Control division regulates those businesses. The state Department of Health issues cards to qualified patients. The new program would also be taxed differently than medical marijuana. Under the amendment, recreational marijuana would be subject to the existing sales tax, an additional 8% excise tax and a local sales tax of 5%. Medical
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marijuana purchases would not face any new taxes under the amendment. While the amendment would not change the framework of the state medical marijuana program, it would increase competition and drive down prices, Boling said. “What we have right now in Arkansas isn’t good for patients,” Boling said. “It’s just not. And the people that really need it can’t afford it, can’t get it. Can’t even afford to see the doctor to get it. That’s what needs to change.” The Arkansas True Grass proposal would also expunge convictions for some marijuana offenses. Under the amendment, anyone incarcerated or serving parole or probation for a violation of the Arkansas Uniformed Controlled Substances Act and whose current and only conviction is for a marijuana-related offense would be released. All criminal records of such convictions before the passage of the amendment would be expunged. “We want to free the people and the plant,” Boling said. “We don’t think that anybody should be arrested over a plant that’s proven to be safer than alcohol and tobacco.” Arkansas True Grass tried to get a recreational marijuana amendment on the ballot in 2016 and 2020. The group struggled, during its 2016 attempt, to get ballot language approved by Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, who was required by state law at the time to approve ballot titles before petitioners could begin gathering signatures. Rutledge ultimately approved the ballot title two months before the election, but the group did not have enough time to gather the necessary signatures, Boling said. The organization sued Rutledge over the matter in 2019 and a new state law passed that year changed the requirements for getting a measure on the ballot. The new law removed the need for
the attorney general to approve ballot titles and, instead, required ballot titles only to be filed with the Secretary of State’s office. If ballot titles receive enough signatures, they are approved or rejected by the Board of Election Commissioners. David Couch, the Little Rock attorney who helped draft marijuana amendments that made the ballot in 2012 and 2016, is not optimistic about Arkansas True Grass’ chances. “I don’t think they have a chance in hell of getting on the ballot, but anybody can file anything nowadays,” Couch said. Couch, who said he is not currently working on a marijuana measure for 2022, said the change in the process from getting “free legal advice” from the attorney general to gathering signatures before approval makes it difficult to have a successful measure. The petition process can also be expensive. Couch estimated it would take approximately $750,000 to pay canvassers to get enough signatures to make the ballot before funding a campaign to support the measure. Arkansas True Grass has raised $13,573.91 and spent $10,787.29, according to the organization’s most recent filing with the Arkansas Ethics Commission in September. The group has $2,786.62 on-hand. In 2012, Arkansans voted on a medical marijuana amendment that got 48.56% and failed by about 30,000 votes. Four years later, voters approved the current medical marijuana law with 53.11% voting in favor. At least one other effort to legalize marijuana for adult use, likely with significant financial backing, is expected to be announced later this year. The acceptance of marijuana has increased significantly and the right recreational amendment can pass in Arkansas, Couch said.
MARKETPLACE Since the 2016 amendment passed, Arkansas has opened 37 dispensaries throughout the state and has more than 79,000 qualified patients. “Recreational marijuana will pass in Arkansas with the right regulatory and tax structure involved,” Couch said. A successful measure would increase the number of cultivators and dispensaries and allocate dispensaries by using a populationbased formula like the one the state uses to allocate licenses for liquor stores, Couch said. The measure should also permit cooperative “microcultivators” in each county rather than home grows. A successful measure would also expunge marijuana-related convictions and would tax recreational marijuana while eliminating taxes on medical marijuana, according to Couch. The time is right to pass a recreational marijuana amendment, Couch said. Statewide referendums only need to surpass 50% of the votes cast to pass, but that could change. The 2022 ballot will include a question referred by the state legislature on whether statewide referendums should require a 60% majority to pass. Regardless of whether that question passes in 2022, any measures on the 2022 ballot will only need to exceed 50% to pass, but next year could be the last time that is the case. “If you are going to do something in Arkansas, you need to do it now,” Couch said. If voters approve a recreational marijuana amendment, Arkansas would become the second state in the South and the first among its neighbors to legalize marijuana for recreational (or adultuse) purposes. Virginia legislators legalized recreational marijuana earlier this year, but the law does not take effect until 2024, according to the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana for adults, but Illinois is the closest state to Arkansas to take such a step. Arkansas is among 37 states (and the District of Columbia) that have approved marijuana for medicinal purposes. Arkansas’s neighboring states of Oklahoma, Missouri and Louisiana have approved marijuana for some form of medicinal use. Boling is optimistic about Arkansas True Grass’ chances of making the ballot and said most people she encounters are supportive. The group recently collected more than 300 signatures at the Arkansas-Oklahoma State Fair in Fort Smith and at the Main Street Food Truck Festival in Little Rock. The group has about 10 volunteers and about 70 supportive businesses that are collecting signatures. “We’re all volunteers,” Boling said. “Nobody gets paid for anything. We’re just a grassroots legalization group. We just want to see Arkansas green.”
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WE PREDICT YOU WILL USE SCISSORS IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE What’s on tap for Central Arkansas in 30 years? Cut out and fold up this fortune teller, make your picks and see your future. If you’ve forgotten how to fold these cootie catchers, find instructions at arktimes. com/fortuneteller. Of course, if you’re that far removed from your elementary school days, you’ll probably be dead by 2050, anyway.
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