Jordan P. Hickey
Journalist and Editor at Freelance
Arkansas-based freelancer. Words in WaPo, Garden & Gun, VQR, Arkansas Advocate, others. Spanish, Urdu. Trying not to tump. || @jordanphickey.bsky.social
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3 weeks ago |
arkansasadvocate.com | Jordan P. Hickey
by Jordan P. Hickey, Contributing Writer, Arkansas Advocate June 6, 2025 Building in some of Arkansas’ fastest-growing cities hit a wall last spring after the Arkansas Department of Health ceased approving any significant new projects. Centerton and Highfill, two communities in the booming Northwest Arkansas region, grew by 7.2% and 15.2%, respectively, between July 1, 2023 and last July 1, according to the Census Bureau.
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Jordan P. Hickey
Residential construction in fast-growing Centerton has slowed because of limited sewer infrastructure capacity. (Photo by Arshia Khan for Arkansas Advocate, June 2025)Building in some of Arkansas’ fastest-growing cities hit a wall last spring after the Arkansas Department of Health ceased approving any significant new projects.
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3 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Jordan P. Hickey
Arkansas’s Newton County is a place preserved: no stoplights, and scarce cell service. The county seat of Jasper’s population (547) remains roughly what it was 125 years ago. In recent years, however, the long-delayed specters of change have sniffed out Northern Arkansas’s once-isolated rural …
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1 month ago |
dmagazine.com | Jordan P. Hickey
or the first 99 seconds of Black Rodeo, a documentary made in 1972, White cowboys are all you see. A montage of sepia-toned photographs of White cowboys snipped from popular culture fades in and out as a warped-record rendition of “Home on the Range” warbles in the background. These are the cowboys that popular culture has said are cowboys, to the exclusion of all others, the film seems to say.
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2 months ago |
arktimes.com | Jordan P. Hickey
It was mid-December 2023, and the halls of Fayetteville’s historic square were fully decked. More than 500,000 lights had been hung for the 30th annual Lights of the Ozarks, which drew an estimated 300,000 visitors over a six-week run. In that light, Fayetteville looked every bit the “Best Place to Live” it’d been named in national rankings for eight years running. A few blocks north of the square on Block Street, that festive atmosphere was still present, though slightly more subdued.
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