New Orleans A front page article in the Times-Picayune/New Orleans Advocate noted that days over fifty years ago then Transportation Secretary John Volpe pulled the plug on plans to build an expressway that would have run along the Mississippi River and through the historic Vieux Carre, transforming and destroying parts of the famous New …
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Volunteer Host “Army” Gathers at KABF
Little Rock As the hosts of KABF’s radio shows gathered at the New Millennium Church in western Little Rock near the University of Little Rock campus, long time DJs went back and forth trying to remember when we had convened our last all hands meeting of the hosts. I would venture three or four years, …
The Future of Newspapers is…an iPad
Little Rock When you think of innovation, you might think of California and Silicon Valley, but you’re not likely to think, hey, Arkansas! Well, who knows if this will work, but the statewide newspaper, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, has announced that, lo and behold, it is going 100% digital by next year, yes, 2020! You want …
Little Rock Slumlord Highlights Tenant Abuse in Arkansas
Little Rock Imran Bohra is not exactly a household name everywhere in Pulaski County, where Little Rock and North Little Rock are located, but among lower income tenants, he’s famous in the worst of ways as a notorious slumlord. He has about 150 properties that he rents in both cities with perhaps the bulk of …
ACORN Reunion and Revival Tour
New Orleans The Little Rock premiere screening of THE ORGANIZER documentary that looked at ACORN past, present, and future was a fascinating and unique event, where everyone there might truthfully say, “I wish you couldn’t have been there!” Everything was going against it in some ways. It was a hot day, Saturday afternoon, and Mothers’ …