Lara Farrar

3 weeks ago | arktimes.com | Rhett Brinkley |Lara Farrar |Daniel Grear |Mary Hennigan

Chosen from nearly 150 applicants, all of whom were nominated by their school counselor or principal, the 2025 Arkansas Times Academic All-Star Team showcases some of the state’s most exemplary high school seniors. Of the 20 students selected for this year’s roster — the 31st group the Times has honored — three received a perfect score on the ACT. Four have already committed to an Ivy League university. Just as many have their hearts set on medical school.

1 month ago | arktimes.com | Lara Farrar

For about two years, the Little Rock-based nonprofit Well Fed has been delivering boxes of locally grown fruit, vegetables, meat and dairy products every month to 800 low-income families across Central Arkansas. Within the next few months, unless another funding source is secured, the contents of those boxes could dramatically change. The families “will continue to get commodities, like beans and canned goods and things like that,” Well Fed Executive Director Joshua Harris said.

1 month ago | arktimes.com | Lara Farrar

Earlier this week, the Arkansas Times reported that the Senate Transportation, Technology and Legislative Affairs Committee greenlit a bill, sponsored by Sen. Alan Clark (R-Lonsdale), that would make it legal to run a red light Arkansas if there are no other cars around. Clark said the idea came to him while driving back to Garland County after a recent event in Little Rock, where he had to stop and wait at about half a dozen red lights even though there were no other cars around.

1 month ago | arktimes.com | Lara Farrar

It may soon be legal for Arkansas drivers to run a red light. Only if no other vehicles are approaching and no one else is around though, according to Sen. Alan Clark (R-Londsdale), who presented his stoplight bill on Monday to the Senate’s Transportation, Technology and Legislative Affairs Committee. Clark is also the sponsor of other risky legislation to give Arkansas citizens more freedom to hasten their own deaths.

1 month ago | arktimes.com | Lara Farrar

State lawmakers are once again using their vast experience with scientific and medical research to influence the health decisions made by everyday Arkansans. So far this legislative session, there have been bills to deregulate the sale of unpasteurized dairy products, remove fluoride from public drinking water, require public school students to watch a medically inaccurate video about pregnancy and to punish doctors for providing puberty blockers to transgender minors.