New year, old challenges
As we enter a new year, the time is here to plan for the challenges ahead. Choosing the right challenge to address is not easy for cities. The best advice the planning profession can offer: First, fix the basics. The basics vary from city to town. One may have utility systems on the verge of […]
Arkansas Opioid Recovery Partnership debuts Revive AR app
The Arkansas Opioid Recovery Partnership (ARORP) has released ReviveAR, an app designed to prevent and treat opioid abuse in Arkansas.
Cultivating community
The history of the Vietnamese Lunar New Year, known as Tết Nguyên Đán, or simply Tết, is rooted in the earliest settlements in northern Vietnam’s Red River Delta and marks the new cycle of wet rice cultivation with the approach of spring.
Railroads and resources: Cities mark milestones
If you spend even a little time perusing the history of our state’s cities and towns in the wonderful Encyclopedia of Arkansas, a pattern quickly emerges. Early Arkansas communities, particularly smaller ones that often began as little more than labor camps, grew and even thrived with the coming of the railroad. Of course it helped […]
NLC celebrates its centennial at the Congressional City Conference
Local government leaders from cities, towns and villages across the nation gathered for the 59th National League of Cities Congressional City Conference, held March 11-13 at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, D.C.
Chester mayor envisions town revival
Nestled in a valley amid the peaks of the Ozark Mountains in northern Crawford County, the town of Chester was once a thriving timber community in the late 19th century, with a prominent stop on the Frisco Railroad.
A look at the latest in weight-loss medications
Obesity is a complex disease that historically has been underrecognized and undertreated by the medical community.
From The President: Spring 2024
One of the exciting things I can report on is the trip I took to the National League of Cities Congressional City Conference in Washington, D.C., in March.
Undefined terms add complexity to zoning
As if the zoning of private property fails to confuse folks enough, planners now deploy concepts that vary in intent and definition. Oh, they define them no doubt, each city in its own way and application.
