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1 week ago | arktimes.com | Griffin Coop |Milo Strain |Daniel Grear

As May comes to a close, we’re looking back at some of the best restaurant dishes the Eat Arkansas team came across over the last month. Send us your favorite bites and food selfies from the last four weeks as we plan our June dining schedules. Honey chipotle sauce at Slader’s Alaskan Dumpling Co.After a last-minute invite to join a coworker for a night of trivia, I headed to Stone’s Throw Brewing and hoped they’d at least have a food truck outside where I could grab a bite.

1 week ago | arktimes.com | Rhett Brinkley |Griffin Coop

Move over, Hoosiers!The story of the UA Little Rock Trojans baseball squad’s unexpected rally sounds like the script from an inspirational sports movie. The Trojans lost 13 of their final 14 regular season games and surrendered 43 runs in their final three-game series against Southeast Missouri State before squeaking into the Ohio Valley Conference tournament in Marion, Illinois, as the tournament’s lowest seed.

1 week ago | arktimes.com | Griffin Coop

If you follow Arkansas’s governor on social media, you may have seen the news that Arkansas has climbed to 10th in a national ranking for “economic outlook.” Sounds good, right? The fine print at the bottom of Gov. Sarah Sanders’ social media graphic shows the ranking was courtesy of the American Legislative Exchange Council, also known as ALEC.

1 week ago | arktimes.com | Griffin Coop

Arkansans have until Monday to assess their personal or commercial property without incurring a penalty. Pulaski County residents can go to https://www.pulaskicountyassessor.net to assess their property online. The deadline to assess without a penalty is Monday, June 2, since the usual deadline of May 31 falls on a Saturday this year. According to state law, assessments after the deadline will incur a 10% penalty.

2 weeks ago | arktimes.com | Griffin Coop |Phillip Powell

President Donald Trump has approved disaster assistance for dozens of Arkansas counties impacted by storms and flooding in April, a day after Gov. Sarah Sanders announced the state would launch a cost-sharing program to help cities and counties pay for damage from a previous round of storms in March.  Trump initially denied the state’s request for aid related to the March storms. He later agreed to provide some assistance, though less than Arkansas had requested.