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5 days ago | 
armoneyandpolitics.com | Mark Carter
FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinEmailThe regional bugaboo that had plagued the baseball Razorbacks the past two years was snuffed out with emphasis over the weekend in Fayetteville. Arkansas, the No. 3 national seed, swept through the Fayetteville Regional with convincing wins over the region’s fourth seed, North Dakota State, on Friday, and Creighton, the third seed, on Saturday and Sunday. In their three regional games, the Hogs outscored opponents 26-8.
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2 weeks ago | 
armoneyandpolitics.com | Mark Carter
An old sports-writing buddy of mine, with whom I sewed my newspaper oats in Fort Smith some 35 years ago, had tickets to the first- and second-round sessions of this year’s March Madness at Ball Arena in Denver. About 10 years ago, we had embarked on a tradition of meeting up once a year to relive our early-20s glory days and catch a game, either here or in his native Colorado.
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3 weeks ago | 
armoneyandpolitics.com | Mark Carter
Photos by DeWaine Duncan. Feature photo above, The quartz is crushed and washed then loaded into trucks, opposite, and taken to Premier’s bagging plant near the quarry. Underneath the tall pines and gently rolling hills that make up the Grant County landscape runs a vein of quartz unique to Arkansas.
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1 month ago | 
armoneyandpolitics.com | Mark Carter
Arkansas is home to 98 public airports, eight with commercial passenger service. The rest are considered “general aviation” airports and include all aspects of civilian flying outside of scheduled commercial flights. GA airports support a wide range of activity, including business and recreational travel, aerial firefighting, air medical flights, air cargo flights, agricultural support, law enforcement operations and disaster relief.
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1 month ago | 
armoneyandpolitics.com | Mark Carter
It sits just off the main drag in downtown Hot Springs and, therefore, somewhat removed from the hustle and bustle of Central Avenue, but, in many ways, the legendary Vapors nightclub represented the epicenter of the Spa City’s infamous run as Vegas of the South in the mid-20th century.
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1 month ago | 
armoneyandpolitics.com | Mark Carter
Artificial intelligence has infiltrated my email, Google now intent on giving me the option of letting its algorithms do the work for me. While that is likely preferable in my case, it makes me wonder when mankind will draw a line in the sand and remember that automation is a perilous gift and nothing truly worthwhile comes without exertion.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Mark Carter |South East |Adrian Harms
One of the last surviving veterans of the Second World War has been sharing his experience of being held as a prisoner of war and returning to his life in Surrey. Eric Reeves, 104, joined the Territorial Army at 16 and became a Lance Corporal with the Queen's Royal Regiment by the age of 20 but was captured by German forces in 1940 and spent five years in a prison camp.
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2 months ago | 
yahoo.com | Mark Carter |South East
Search queryHospital radio marks 50 years of entertainmentMark Carter - BBC News, South EastSat, April 5, 2025 at 7:37 AM UTCNigel Gray has been chairman of Radio Redhill since 1981 [BBC/MARK CARTER]A radio service that has been entertaining patients and staff at the East Surrey Hospital has marked it's 50th anniversary. The first experimental broadcast took place on Christmas Day 1974 at the former Redhill General Hospital, with regular programmes starting the following year.
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2 months ago | 
johnmenadue.com | Mark Carter
For the aviation industry as a whole, and, for that matter, our federal government too, net zero 2050 is just the latest layer of greenwash. The sector is a serial offender, having misrepresented its global warming impact for decades. Qantas says it doesnt buy political favours. But it has illegally sacked its workforce, its customers, and paid no income tax last year. Now it could be found guilty of greenwashing its efforts to reach net zero emissions by 2050. But that aint the half of it.
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2 months ago | 
armoneyandpolitics.com | Mark Carter
In 2018, a coalition of elected officials, business owners and educators in Saline County recognized the need to bolster the local workforce to attract industry. It was determined that the county could benefit from a career technical-education center available to students in the county’s six school districts.
