Little Rock These days planners and speculators would be hard pressed to imagine that they could figure out a way to easily intersect cities with ribbons of concrete dividing rich, poor, black and white, which is not to say there aren’t some still trying, but the public purposes are so obscure and the self-interest so …
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Remembering Elena Hanggi, Jack Lavey, and the Wilbur Mills Expressway Fight
New Orleans The obituary for Elena Hanggi Giddings said so little that it was almost hard for me to believe that this was the same woman I knew so well and so long. Her stint as chair of the regional advisory board of the Federal Home Loan Bank in Dallas was acknowledged, along with her …
Arkansas Health Care Battleground Focuses on Stopping Enrollment
Little Rock The so-called unique “private option” in Arkansas where a federal Affordable Care Act waiver allows federal money to purchase insurance from private companies for low-income families continues to be a year-by-year battleground. Importantly this program along with Medicaid expansion, both navigated by Democratic Governor Mike Beebe through a Republican legislature, has already allowed …