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Q&A: With author Jen Fawkes.

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Ballet Arkansas and ASO hit the street to perform; DOT releases EP; CALS screens movies; The New Gallery opens a Frea Buckler show.

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INCONSEQUENTIAL NEWS QUIZ

DEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS EDITION PLAY IN JAIL, WHILE STILL PISSED OVER YOUR BROKEN HEADPHONES. 1) In October, a panel established by Governor Hutchinson recommended that high school students be required to get credits in an important new discipline in order to graduate. In what field did the panel recommend students get credit?

A) Spores, Molds and Fungi.

B) Moonshinin’.

C) Defense Against the Dark Arts.

D) Computer Science.

2) A 25-year-old Mountain Home woman was arrested in October after she allegedly stabbed her boyfriend in the chest with a knife. According to investigators, why did she stab him?

A) Despair over the death of RBG. We get it.

B) She read a QAnon theory that Metallica T-shirts are stab-proof and wanted to test it.

C) It was a drunken attempt to pierce his nipple.

D) She apparently believed he had something to do with breaking her headphones.

3) In mid-October, officials with the Pulaski County Election Commission acknowledged that the name of business owner David Alan Bubbus, a candidate for the Little Rock Board of Directors, would be misspelled on ballots, with the mistake caught too late to be corrected in time for the election. How was Bubbus’ name misspelled on the ballot?

A) David Alvin Bubbles.

B) Doris Alien Blubber.

C) Dr. Johnny Bananas.

D) David Alan Bubbas.

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4) Shep, an 8-year-old mixed-breed dog, passed away in October, and officials in North Little Rock announced they planned to place a memorial to him in a park there.

Why will Shep be so honored after his passing?

A) He was, like, a reeeeeally good boy.

B) He once saved North Little Rock Mayor Joe Smith from choking by administering the Heimlich Maneuver.

C) He was the inventor of Dog Math.

D) Since 2014, Shep had been on patrol against flocks of geese that had previously congregated on North Little Rock’s Burns Park Golf Course, soccer fields and trails, his diligent goose-chasing helping keep public spaces free of the birds’ droppings.

5) In more consequential news, Andrea Michelle Barfield, 47, of Little Rock, was recently sentenced to 12 years in prison in a September 2019 homicide in which investigators said Barfield used an unusual weapon to kill a 62-year-old woman. According to police, what was the weapon Barfield used?

A) A spoon.

B) A bar of soap.

C) A DVD copy of “Deuce Bigalow, Male Gigolo.”

D) A standard-sized can of tomato soup.

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‘STRANGENESS IN THE PROPORTION’ A Q&A WITH JEN FAWKES

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No one’s ever asked me that. And it’s not something I have consciously done, but it’s absolutely true. I think it may be because my own body is still an absolute mystery to me, to this day, even more so the older I’ve gotten.

The body is one of the two things we all have in common. We’re walking around encased in this meat suitcase thing. And we know so little about it! We know even less about our consciousness, or whatever the hell is animating our bodies. I’m just fascinated. And in literature, and text in general, we tend to only focus on the body one way — as the site of sexuality. And sexuality’s huge, don’t get me wrong. But there’s much more to the body that we usually don’t get into.

One thing you do really beautifully in this book is to superimpose these fantastic or sometimes magical situations on top of otherwise mundane-seeming lives of characters. How do you decide, in a story, what parts of the “real” world to keep, and what parts will be a departure, where things are gonna get weird?

I’ve always been a fan of work that does that very thing, that presents a world that is almostbut-not-quite our world. Our world with a pretty significant twist. I grew up on Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Twilight Zone.” These kinds of things formed me. With those kinds of stories, one of the dangers is taking it too far. All writing is looking for this optimal balance between the familiar and the alien. And as audience members, this is also what we crave — something that comforts us in a way, but that completely turns the familiar on its head. Surprise is the most important part. If a piece of work doesn’t surprise me, I’m not gonna keep reading. … But I also love lots of quiet domestic fiction, and I try to strike a balance. I probably cross the line for a lot of readers out there (like, for instance, my family, who politely say nice things), but I like to think my writing isn’t ever weird for the sake of being weird.

One theme that resurges in this book again and again is work, and your characters’ relationship to it, and I noticed that your bio suggests you’ve had a pretty wide range of experiences when it comes to work: that you’ve been “a waitress, a tax preparer, a bartender, a museum interpreter, a cleaning woman and a college professor.” Is there some of your work life in 10 NOVEMBER 2020

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I have an older sister who passed away when she was 18 and I was 16. She was morbidly obese, and she died of complications from pancreatitis. Pancreatitis is very dangerous; if the function of the pancreas gets blocked, you have a very short period of time to unblock it, or the pancreas begins to digest itself. And when that happens, there’s almost no way to save someone. It usually happens to people who are older, who are heavy drinkers. But my sister, she was so ashamed of her body that she wouldn’t go to the doctor. She wouldn’t let anyone see her, even my mother and I, after a point. And her fear, because she wouldn’t let anyone look at her, we didn’t know what was happening to her until it was too late to save her.

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f I had to venture a guess as to what sort of reader might enjoy Arkansas native Jen Fawkes’ debut short story collection, “Mannequin and Wife,” I’d bet on someone who had “Black Mirror” in their Netflix history, or maybe some marathon viewings of “The Twilight Zone.” Fawkes’ discrete little worlds are inhabited by contortionists and detectives and anthropomorphous animals, all brought into sharp focus with all the crispness and economy that the short story medium demands of an author. Like those two TV series, too, Fawkes’ work jumps genres and moods like a radio tuner, and toys cleverly with the balance between “real world” mundanity and surreal departures into horror, comedy and magic.

these stories?

Yes. My working life is absolutely represented in these stories, and in every story. I’ve done a good bit of office work, and worked for many years in the restaurant service industry. …

Restaurant work trains you in doublespeak. It trains you in how to be deceptive, how to be kind while being cruel, how to put someone down and compliment them in the same breath. And about being a chameleon, fitting to other people’s needs. That duality, the ability to be able to say two or three things at the same time, is a great boon to a writer of fiction, I think. Also, working in a restaurant confronted me with people from different walks of life, with different opinions.

Conservative people, liberal people. People who hate you, people who want to have sex with you. And you learn to deal with 15 personalities at once and accommodate them all. It’s a very freaky lifestyle to be living.

Another thing I love about the book is that it really gets right up close to characters’ bodies, and the weirdness and messiness of having a body. And often, your characters’ bodies are unusual or sideshow-level-extraordinary (e.g.

Beatrice Fleck, Collapsible Connie, Elephant Girl). I’m curious whether you think of this as a sort of signature — like, something you consciously home in on.

Not at all. I’m sorry you lost her, and lost her that way.

I don’t know if you have siblings, but your siblings, they’re your only real compatriots. I’m always jealous of people who have adult siblings in their lives. Her relationship with her body had a huge impact on me. And, of course, there’s my relationship with my body, as a woman. How little we know, even if we want to know. My sister wouldn’t let anyone know, but even if we want to know about our own bodies, we don’t know. It’s one of the deep mysteries of being alive. I’m endlessly drawn to and fascinated by the unknowable. Our bodies and how they work can be known to an extent, but not fully. We’re answer-seeking beings who love in a world without answers.

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FRIDAY 11/6-SATURDAY 12/19. THE NEW GALLERY. FREE. British artist Frea Buckler, whose hard-edge, saturated-color geometric works have been exhibited widely in the United Kingdom and seen in galleries in New York and Denver, brings “Loop Sequence” to The New Gallery at 1619 Scott St. starting Nov. 6. The show will include 10 screen prints and “Loops,” a sculptural installation of hand-painted blocks made of American ash. Buckler juxtaposes flat, high-color forms to explore the interaction between, for example, hot coral and dense black, both visually, rhythmically and emotionally, and her work in the U.K. and Denver includes building facades and murals. In her artist’s statement for the show, Buckler said she is “interested in the use of everyday objects as a metaphor for our own processes and behaviors, in this instance relating to rhythms, order, and sequence, with an element of playfulness.” The gallery will host a reception from 6-9 p.m. Nov. 6; guests will be required to wear a face covering and refreshments will not be served. If needed, guests will be limited to ensure social distancing. The gallery is open 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays or by appointment; contact info@thenewgallery.net for a viewing. LNP

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If your year needed a handful of new songs that cover clambakes, skinnydipping, the alienation brought about by technology and ghosts who speak through Marshall amps, you’re in luck. Three-piece rock outfit DOT (whose non-DOT daytime lives include running a summer rock ’n’ roll/leadership camp for girls called Trust Tree) is releasing “Welcome to the DOTosphere,” a five-song EP on Fayetteville’s cassette tape label Tape Dad. It was recorded, as a press release states, “with engineer Jordan Trotter during several trips to Heber Springs, Arkansas, where they watched ‘Spice World’ and ‘Coyote Ugly’ for inspiration.” The band — Melanie Castellano, Correne Spero and Jordan Wolf — has been playing together for five years, so it’s high time we had some DOT tracks in hold-in-your-hand form. Watch the release party online at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, on DOT’s Instagram or Facebook pages (@dotmuzic), and get the EP at tapedad. bandcamp.com. SS

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SUNDAY 11/15. MATT MCLEOD MURAL, MAIN AND SIXTH STREETS. 3 P.M. FREE; RSVP REQUIRED. Arts organizations across the state are doing what they can with the performance spaces they have, and sometimes that means you set up in front of a downtown mural, require masks and social distance and play some Samuel Barber in the open air. This live outdoor collaboration between the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and Ballet Arkansas features choreography set to works by Barber’s “Adagio for Strings,” Osvaldo Golijov’s “Last Round,” and Augusta Read Thomas’ “Magic Box” with dancers Hannah Bradshaw, Matthew Larson, Megan Tillman, Paul Tillman and Isabelle Urben against the backdrop of “Beneath the Surface,” a 4,300-square-foot mural at the corner of Sixth and Main streets that painter Matt McLeod put up in 2015 with help from art students from UA Little Rock and the University of Central Arkansas. Thanks to funding from ArtPlace, the concert is free. Social distancing and masks are required, as is an RSVP; watch Ballet Arkansas and the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra on Facebook for reservation details. SS 14 NOVEMBER 2020

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Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried,” an acclaimed novel set in the lives and minds of soldiers fighting in the Vietnam War, is the inspiration for a series of virtual film screenings in November from the Central Arkansas Library System and the Ottenheimer Library at UA Little Rock. Catch Jane Fonda and Jon Voigt in “Coming Home,” Sunday, Nov. 1; Stanley Kubrick’s potent “Full Metal Jacket” Sunday, Nov. 8; John Irvin’s “Hamburger Hill,” scored

by Phillip Glass, Sunday, Nov. 15; and Michael Cimino’s “The Deer Hunter,” starring Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken, Sunday, Nov. 22. Register by clicking the “Get Tickets” link at the bottom of each film event listing, which you’ll find at cals.org/events-classes.

Once you register for a specific film event, you’ll get an email from CALS with login credentials for the online platform Digital Campus, on which you’ll be able to watch the film anytime that Sunday. SS

TAKE A MEDITATION CLASS WITH YOUR LOCAL BUDDHISTS

WEDNESDAY 11/4, 11/11, 11/18, 11/25. ZOOM. 7 P.M. DONATIONS. The Ecumenical Buddhist Society of Little Rock, a group dedicated to providing a physical space where people can meditate together, used to gather at the sunny spot across the street from the state Capitol for extended silences and contemplation. These days, they’ve moved many of those sessions online, and you can tune in Wednesday nights on Zoom for a class about “why we meditate, followed by step-by-step instruction, a brief period of meditation practice, and then discussion.” Get the Zoom link at facebook.com/ebslr, and visit ebslr.com for more on the society. SS

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SATURDAY 11/21-1/3. MAD AMPHITHEATER, EL DORADO. Arts districts have had to be light on their feet this year, to put it mildly. This year, the Murphy Arts District, newly helmed by Hope native and longtime MAD CFO and Treasurer Pam Griffin, will do that on ice. Between Nov. 30 and Jan. 3, MAD is bringing back its open-air ice skating rink on the grounds of the MAD Amphitheater in historic downtown El Dorado. See eldomad.com for details on times and pricing. SS

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SEVENTH CIRCUIT SWEARING-IN: Now Amy Coney Barrett is the Republican choice for the Supreme Court.

W WHAT JUSTICE BARRETT WILL MEAN FOR THE SUPREME COURT NOTHING GOOD.

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hen God called Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg home six weeks before the election, it gave President Trump new confidence that he had been right with his famous boast that God was on his side at election time. He had made the claim when this election season began by recalling that there was no way he would have won the 2016 election without God’s machinations in the final days before the voting. God would take care of him again in this election.

God has delivered for Trump again by arranging for a new hard-eyed Supreme Court justice who will rescue him or his party, or both, in their hour of need, which is right away. Trump accepted His favor by quickly announcing that he was replacing Ginsburg with Amy Coney Barrett, whose maiden name is only one consonant off Trump’s earlier savior. God is clever with His messaging.

To refresh your memory, James Comey, then-FBI director and a lifelong Republican lawyer, was the Lord’s supposed agent in 2016. Comey first announced three months before the election that the FBI’s intensive investigation of 30,000 emails that went through Hillary Clinton’s private server when she was secretary of state

showed poor judgment but no grounds for prosecution. Comey made the unusual announcement because, although the email investigation was over, Trump was telling crowds and tweeting that, if she were elected, the nation would be subjected to the spectacle of the president being led out of the White House in shackles. Eleven days before the election, Comey dramatically announced that agents had discovered a new trove of her emails and he was reopening the investigation. She plummeted in the polls, to virtual parity with Trump.

Thirty-six hours before the election, Comey said oops, there really had been no new email evidence. Clinton still beat Trump by nearly 3 million votes but lost the electoral college. Six months later, Trump fired his savior, Comey, for refusing to pledge personal loyalty to him and ground the FBI’s Russia investigation.

Ginsburg’s death was supposed to be God’s October surprise, giving Trump the chance to put an inflexible ideologue and Republican loyalist on the evenly split Supreme Court, perhaps to deliver him from the voters’ reprobation if she got the chance but, anyway, to protect him and the party from the fast pursuing angels of justice — grand juries, prosecutors, congressional watchdogs and maybe his own

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Forget about abortion for a moment. Protecting Trump and assorted minions from the law is Amy Coney Barrett’s immediate task. Trump said as much when he addressed Republican state attorney generals. He said it was important to get Barrett on the bench by Election Day so that it would not be split 4 to 4 on issues rising from the election. He apparently figured the chief justice, although a Republican, could not be counted on to protect a Republican president, as the justices did in 2000 in declaring George W. Bush the winner, though he lost the popular vote by more than 500,000 and they were still counting ballots that survived the vote suppression in Florida. The Republican majority had trouble explaining its legal reasoning and concluded by saying, in the rarest of opinions, that their ruling could never be cited as a precedent. In other words, let’s don’t ever do this again! Four justices, and we now presume five, will do it again if the chance presents itself.

But more than election issues are on Barrett’s plate as a freshly minted justice. All the tax issues with federal and state prosecutors and Congress are rising to the court again, including access to the Trump tax returns that are stored at Mazars Inc., the big corporate tax-accounting firm, and along with civil matters like orders for him to provide DNA evidence in the defamation suit of Jean Carroll, the author and Elle columnist, who claims Trump raped her in a dressing room at Bergdorf-Goodman one block from his office in the Trump Tower, or a similar case in which Summer Zervos, a former contestant on his TV show “The Apprentice,” claims he sexually assaulted her in 2007. The courts still must judge whether there was illegality in his bribing the porn stars Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal or whether his fixer Michael Cohen would absorb the only punishment. What will Amy Coney Barrett say about all those matters?

Will she recuse in all or any of these cases, including any election question, since Trump has made it clear that is why it was important to rush her appointment and confirmation?

Of course, she refused to say at her confirmation hearing whether she would recuse in any case — election matters, her patron’s personal legal troubles, abortion, the Affordable Care Act or the regulatory decisions of the Trump and Obama administrations.

She appears to be bound to recuse under the standard set by the Supreme Court in Rippo v.

Baker and other cases. The court said recusal was required, not merely when a conflict of interest was obvious but also when “the probability of actual bias on the part of the judge or decisionmaker is too high to be constitutionally tolerable.” The public must never be persuaded that a justice’s vote was based on personal or political interests rather than the facts and the law.

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WE DON’T NEED TO READ ANY OF BARRETT’S OPINIONS ABOUT ABORTION, THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT, SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, SEXUALITY, EMPLOYEE OR CONSUMER RIGHTS, VOTING RIGHTS, OR ANYTHING ELSE THAT FALLS ALONG MODERN SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC LINES. SHE IS A LONGSTANDING MEMBER OF THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY. THAT IS REALLY ABOUT ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW.

the health protections of the Affordable Care Act or not to scrap Roe v. Wade and end legal protections for women and girls to get abortions.

We know, almost to a certainty, how she will vote on those issues and on any other issue where corporate interests clash with those of employees, consumers or government regulators. For a justice with the least actual legal practice of any justice in modern times, she has remarkably clear and firmly stated convictions.

On abortion, she has denounced the procedure over and over and called Roe v. Wade, the Republican-constructed precedent legalizing abortions, “barbaric” and the legal reasoning behind it wrong. As a law teacher at Notre Dame she praised the legal reasoning of the Republican justices in the Affordable Care Act case who wanted to throw the whole thing out as a violation of the commerce clause and attacked the alternate reasoning of Chief Justice John Roberts that kept the Affordable Care Act afloat on the basis that the tax provisions of the act rendered it permissible under the commerce clause. She accused Roberts of pushing Obamacare “beyond its plausible meaning” in order to save it.

Do you really think she will now switch and side with Roberts to save it again?

In her confirmation hearing, like other nominees before her, Barrett indicated that she had not made up her mind on whether to overturn Roe v. Wade, citing Ginsburg herself at her confirmation hearing as being unsure and noncommittal. But here is what Ginsburg said at her confirmation hearing when she was asked about abortion and Roe v. Wade: “The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity. It is a decision she must make for herself.”

But we don’t need to read any of Barrett’s opinions about abortion, the Affordable Care Act, same-sex marriage, sexuality, employee or consumer rights, voting rights or anything else that falls along modern social and economic fault lines. She is a longstanding member of the Federalist Society. That is really about all you need to know. Every Republican justice now — all six of them — came out of the club, although there has been dispute about whether Roberts, the occasional dissenter, was a bona-fide member. The Federalist Society, which was organized in 1982 by privileged Yale Law School white boys, eventually became a checklist for Republican administrations looking for dependable right-wingers for appellate courts.

George W. Bush and Trump plucked their appellate judges from the Federalist scroll.

The Federalist Society doctrine is that the U.S. Constitution is a libertarian document that was never meant to allow all the liberal decisions of the last 65 years affirming racial, gender and sexual equality under the law, restraining corporate greed and environmental destruction, or constraining executive power. On the last issue, you might note that the Federalist Society hosted a telephone conference in 2018 about the Mueller investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and its alliance with Trump, his family and campaign cohorts. The whole

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investigation by the Justice Department was unconstitutional, Federalist presenters averred.

We may get to see pretty soon whether Amy Barrett agrees with her sponsors. Maybe she will recuse.

She testified that she was entirely in sync with her first boss, Antonin Scalia — a “textualist” and “originalist” when it comes to interpreting the Constitution. She interprets the Constitution to mean exactly what the words say.

But that really is not what a Federalist Society judge does, as Scalia, Roberts and all the rest repeatedly demonstrate. The Federalist Society’s approach to the law is the same as conservative jurisprudence has always been: It is the search for a plausible-sounding theory for why the Constitution does NOT mean what it says. In Federalist Society doctrine, the soaring phrases of the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights — the guarantees of freedom of speech, association, religion, full participation in the civil society and protection of the laws for everyone — obviously were not expected to really mean all that because the bigots who wrote them obviously did not intend them to apply to Black people, women, men who didn’t own property, gays, lesbians, disabled folks or darker-hued immigrants.

The best modern example of the search for plausible theories to justify stretching the Constitution far beyond its literal words was the Supreme Court’s hodge-podge of opinions in the Affordable Care Act case that said the Constitution’s commerce clause did not really mean what it said — that it was the federal government’s job, not the states’, to regulate commerce like medical insurance. The Republican justices all found a provision or two in the huge statute that they doubted the founders would have found to be a good exercise of commercial regulation. Roberts found a still more arcane reason, a tax on nonpurchasers of insurance, to say that, well, OK, the act was a legitimate exercise of commerce power.

Soon, we shall see what Trump’s new justice thinks of all those thin excuses for jurisprudence in the Texas lawsuit to end the Affordable Care Act and medical care for some 300,000 Arkansans who were insured by the Medicaid expansion, its protection for preexisting conditions or other provisions of the law. Barrett said Trump did not tell her how to vote on it.

He didn’t need to. He said a thousand times that he wanted the Obama law obliterated entirely. That is why she is there. Along with many of the Republican senators who confirmed her, Trump will consider any other vote treason.

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Thousands of Unemployment Claims Remain Locked by the State

FRAUD PREVENTION EFFORTS BY THE DIVISION OF WORKFORCE SERVICES HAVE SLOWED THE FLOW OF AID TO JOBLESS ARKANSANS

BY BENJAMIN HARDY ARKANSAS NONPROFIT NEWS NETWORK

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hen Rebecca Towne was laid off April 15 from her job as a tax preparer for Jackson Hewitt, she figured she would find another job. Like many Arkansans, she’d never drawn unemployment in her life and didn’t plan to start then.

But Towne, 51, couldn’t find work anywhere in Marion County that spring, as businesses closed their doors and laid off workers in response to the coronavirus pandemic. By July, she was borrowing money from her adult daughter to feed herself and her youngest daughter. She filed for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, or PUA, the first week of July.

Towne said she was told she would be able to backdate her claims going back to April 16, meaning she’d get $600 from the federal government and a maximum of $132 from the state for each week she was without work.

As of October, Towne had received a grand total of just $780 in benefits, for two weeks in August. (By that point, the weekly federal bonus payments had decreased from $600 to $300.) Her claims for April, May, June and July were denied by the Arkansas Division of Workforce Services. After repeated phone calls, she’s still unsure why.

“You guys say I qualify, you say I’m going to be able to get help, and then you deny everything,” Towne said in a phone interview.

In August, she resumed working as a paraprofessional at a nearby school, and she now brings home under $1,100 monthly from the job — not enough to cover rent, bills and groceries.

As of Oct. 13, DWS had received almost 238,000 applications for PUA, the program established by the federal government this spring to assist independent contractors, gig workers, the self-employed and others who lost work due to the COVID-19 crisis. Many such workers do not qualify for regular unemployment insurance, which is designed for workers classified as employees. The PUA program, which was created by Congress as part of the CARES Act, has provided an economic lifeline for tens of thousands of households in Arkansas.

Yet over 54,000 of those PUA claims had been flagged for internal review by Arkansas DWS as of Oct. 13, according to spokeswoman Zoë 20 NOVEMBER 2020

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“All I’ve done is jump through hoops for months.”

MATT WHITE

DENIED ASSISTANCE: Since Rebecca Towne’s job ended April 15, she has struggled to make ends meet for herself and her daughter, Nikki. The state has offered little help.

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Calkins. That number is almost a quarter of the total, and twice as many as the agency said were under review on Aug. 4. A flagged claim remains frozen until the review is complete, which can leave applicants in limbo for weeks or months.

DWS has had to develop new processes and policies to investigate suspected fraud in the PUA system, Calkins said. The regular unemployment insurance system is funded largely by payroll taxes collected from employers, so workforce services agencies usually turn to employers for help when investigating suspected fraud. In contrast, a PUA claim filed by an independent contractor or self-employed person does not involve an employer. A PUA applicant must self-certify that he or she lost work due to the pandemic and provide proof of income, such as last year’s tax return and recent invoices.

Calkins said DWS began using “algorithms” over the summer to help identify suspicious PUA claims that require further investigation.

But she declined to provide details about where the algorithms originated, saying only that they were developed through “a combined effort coordinated across internal and external entities.”

Calkins said in an email that DWS does not keep track of how many flagged claims have been confirmed to be fraudulent or how many have been cleared and released since the program began in May. When asked what type of situations might result in a claim being flagged, Calkins said the agency is “not sharing this information for security purposes.” *** Arkansas’s experience with PUA has been troubled from the beginning. The state was slower to roll out the program than many others, in part because its computer system for processing regular unemployment claims lacked the capacity to handle the new program. It hired a vendor, Protech Solutions of Little Rock, to build a new system for PUA from scratch in April.

Arkansans started filing PUA claims on May 1, but a glitch caused some 5,700 applicants’ documents to be lost the first week the system was online. Then, on May 15, the Arkansas Times published a story calling attention to a security flaw in the new web portal that left thousands of applicants’ personal information exposed, including Social Security numbers and bank account numbers. The Times was notified of the vulnerability by an out-of-work software programmer who was applying for assistance. DWS was forced to take the website offline for several days to repair the problem.

Protech Solutions is now the subject of a class action lawsuit by PUA applicants who say the company’s negligence exposed them to possible identity theft and delayed their receipt of benefits. A DWS official told the state legislature in September it had found no evidence of fraud connected to the incident, though an FBI investigation is ongoing.

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But identity theft has now become a problem for PUA systems across the country, with scammers submitting millions of applications using others’ personal information. California was so overwhelmed with fraudulent claims that it recently stopped accepting new applications for two weeks. In Arkansas, Governor Hutchinson received a letter this summer notifying him he had applied for assistance, as did Rep. Fred Love (D-Little Rock), the minority leader in the state House of Representatives.

As DWS attempts to weed out fake claims, however, thousands of real Arkansans have been left stranded.

Bryce Youngblood, 26, of Horatio, said he typically made $1,400 a week on contract as an industrial welder before the pandemic began. The company he worked for shut its doors in March, he said, but soon after he applied for PUA, his account was placed under review by DWS. After months of making calls and leaving unreturned messages, Youngblood said, he has gotten no help from the state. He’s had to sell his truck and move in with his brother while he scrapes by on odd jobs.

“I still have yet to receive anything,” he said in a phone interview. “And I have already lost every single thing I had.”

Robyn Socarro, 47, runs a dog-walking service in Benton County and lives just across the state line in Pineville, Mo. Her business plummeted in March and April as her clients began working from home, cutting back on expenses and taking safety precautions. In those early months of the pandemic, it was unclear whether dogs could spread the novel coronavirus. (Canine infections are now thought to be extremely rare.)

Socarro applied for PUA in May and initially received several weeks of backdated payments.

But in mid-June, the money stopped without explanation and her PUA account was locked for review. For the next three weeks, she said, she called DWS almost daily in search of answers.

“They threw out the baby with the bathwater,” she said, referring to the state’s fraud prevention efforts. “There were thousands of people, and it was just, poof, too bad for you, we’re not telling you squat. Y’all figure out for yourself how you’re gonna live. I can understand having some problems, but I don’t understand their lack of communication.”

By mid-July, she’d given up on PUA and was piecing together cleaning and dog-sitting gigs as best she could. Then, unexpectedly, Socarro received a call from a woman at DWS who demanded to know why she’d applied for unemployment in Arkansas when she lived in Missouri. Socarro explained that she earned all of her income in Arkansas and filed her taxes in Arkansas. In fact, she said, she initially tried to apply for unemployment in Missouri but the state’s workforce services system had steered her to the Arkansas system instead.

The DWS worker accepted the explanation — but did not unlock her account. Instead, So-

carro said, she was told to wait for another call.

Another month passed before she received an email asking for her previous year’s tax return and other financial information, which she provided. At last, a letter arrived from DWS telling her to show up in person at a workforce services office and verify her identity.

In September, Socarro finally received her PUA money for June. It all went toward paying off the credit card debt she accrued while she was out of work, she said. She’s now working a janitorial job and is trying to rebuild her dog-walking business. Though she thinks she’s still owed partial payments for July, she’s not going to press the issue.

“Just forget it. I can just eat more beans right now,” she said. “And I’m one of the lucky ones.”

She knows many people, she said, who abandoned their claims after endless hours of trying and failing to reach anyone at DWS. Calkins, the DWS spokeswoman, declined to say whether an out-of-state home address might result in a claim being flagged by the agency, citing security concerns.

“There’s a number of reasons an account can be flagged, and we don’t call them fraudulent claims until a full, due-process investigation has been done,” she said in a phone call.

Applicants with locked PUA claims should be able to unlock their accounts once they receive a letter in the mail instructing them to verify their ID in person at a workforce center, Calkins said. Since July, the agency has trained 100 additional staff statewide to handle identity verification for locked claims, and it held seven “PUA Authentication events” in August in an attempt to resolve issues for large numbers of people.

DWS has doubled the number of staff assigned to handle in-person and telephone inquiries about both PUA and regular unemployment since March.

Meanwhile, Rebecca Towne is still waiting for answers about why her appeal was denied.

She said she’s received conflicting explanations from DWS. One worker told her the problem was that her tax prep job was seasonal and the April 15 layoff had been scheduled in advance. Later, she was told that she shouldn’t have chosen “other” on a question asking applicants to select a reason why they were applying for PUA. She’s tried to challenge the denial but has been told the appeals process is at a standstill due to a backlog at the Arkansas Appeal Tribunal.

“I can’t even get anyone to help try to fix it,” Towne said. “I’ve been so lost and confused.”

“I think they’re doing all of this so they don’t have to pay this money out,” she said. “I know people in other states who were laid off who had no problem, and all I’ve done is jump through hoops for months.”

This reporting is courtesy of the Arkansas Nonprofit News Network, an independent, nonpartisan news project dedicated to producing journalism that matters to Arkansans.

KAT WILSON

FLAGGED: Robyn Socarro’s unemployment claim was locked for months because of a misunderstanding about whether she should file in Arkansas or Missouri.

“It was just, poof, too bad for you, we’re not telling you squat. Y’all figure out for yourself how you’re gonna live.”

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The Arkansas Academy of Computing has inducted its fourteenth class of honorees!

The Class of 2020 is comprised of eleven technology professionals whose work has distinguished them in their fields and in service to technology innovation and education in Arkansas.

Mr. Don Benton, Assistant Commissioner of Research and Technology at the Arkansas Department of Education, Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

Dr. Susan Bristow, Teaching Associate Professor of Information Systems at the University of Arkansas.

Dr. Jackson Cothren, Director of the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies at the University of Arkansas.

Mr. Alan Gardner, Principal & Senior Dr. Greg Holland, Senior Data SciVice President of Operations at entist and Director at the Arkansas RxResults.

Research Center.

Dr. Xiuzhen Huang, Professor of Bioinformatics and Biomedical Informatics at Arkansas State University.

Ms. Adita Karkera, Deputy State Chief Data Officer, Database Administration Lead at the Arkansas Department of Information Services.

Mr. Arijit Sarkar, Chief Information Officer and Director of Information Systems at Arkansas Department of Education, Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

Dr. Panneer Selvam, University Professor & James T. Womble Professor of Computational Mechanics and Nanotechnology Modeling, Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Arkansas.

Mr. Tony Warren, Managing Director at Euronet Worldwide.

Mr. Scott Spradley, Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Tyson Foods.

Additionally, Dr. Peter Ungar, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arkansas has been recognized this year as he was a member of the Class of 2019 but unable to attend his formal induction.

The Arkansas Academy of Computing recognizes persons who have made significant and sustained contributions to the computing industry with ties to the State of Arkansas.

The accomplishments of the honorees are too many to mention, but include research, work, publication, and business development in computer technology fields as diverse as geospatial sciences, artificial intelligence, data science, engineering, online learning, and health care technologies.

The Academy also provides scholarships to students pursuing degrees in computer technology fields at Arkansas Institutions of Higher Education and promotes technology education and jobs at all levels.

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THE AILING ENTERTAINMENT PICTURE

The pandemic has put venues along the banks of the Arkansas River in choppy economic waters.

BY STEPHANIE SMITTLE PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRIAN CHILSON

HIATUS, AND A CALL FOR HELP: The pandemic has decimated revenues that prop up performance venues like the historic Robinson Center in downtown Little Rock.

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‘SOME GOOD AMIDST ALL OF IT’: Michael Marion and Jana DeGeorge of Simmons Bank Arena hosted Food Truck Fridays this fall in the arena’s VIP lot.

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f there’s one thing we know in October that we didn’t know in March, it’s that the handling of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States would not only introduce new economic distress, but put a spotlight on existing woes.

And the economic crisis isn’t just threatening those needs at the base of Maslow’s hierarchy — hunger, shelter, clean water — it’s putting a devastating strain on arts and live performance.

Ask any working musician, or ballet dancer, or concert promoter, and they’ll tell you: When the economy goes south, even when it dips more marginally than it has over the last eight months, live performance gets cut out of peoples’ calendars — and budgets. Add to that the obvious: that gathering audiences, even in small numbers, remains risky. So, while barbershops and churches and gyms and restaurants across the country are easing their doors open incrementally, theaters, nightclubs and performing arts centers remain mostly dark. Worse, many of them have been deprioritized or left out altogether when it comes to monetary relief packages. Unlike parts of the country where the virus peaked in spring and summer and is now waning, Arkansas continues to pop up on lists

of U.S. coronavirus “hotspots” this fall. In an Oct. 18 report from the White House Coronavirus Task Force, Arkansas ranked second in the nation in new COVID-19 deaths per capita; only North Dakota reported a higher death rate that week. Within four days of that report, Arkansas would announce its highest daily increase ever in the number of new cases, reporting 1,278 new cases on Oct. 15.

The first fiscal quarter of 2021 looks no rosier for performance venues, either. How will live music venues in Arkansas fare when the economic recession, a potential winter wave of COVID and the seasonal flu triangulate paths?

We talked with a few of the people staring down those perils in venues along the Arkansas River waterfront: Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau CEO Gretchen Hall, Simmons Bank Arena General Manager Michael Marion and Four Quarter Bar owner Conan Robinson. *** On the afternoon of March 13, touring Christian hip-hop artist Toby McKeehan, who performs as TobyMac (a DC Talk alum, for anyone

who went to church camp in the ’90s), penned an announcement to his fans: “We are at this very moment completely set up at the Simmons Bank Arena in North Little Rock and regretfully but responsibly won’t be able to play tonight,” he said. “We encourage you to be safe, pray, and care for your families.” Earlier that day, McKeehan and the arena crew had watched as President Trump declared a national state of emergency at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.

That’s how the 2020 calendar began to crumble for Simmons Bank Arena (nee Verizon Arena, nee Alltel Arena), an 18,000-seat indoor stadium built in the late ’90s with the help of a one-year, 1-cent sales tax, a $20 million contribution from the state, $17 million in private money and $7 million from the now-defunct Alltel Corp. The arena’s known for the 25 or so blockbuster concerts it hosts every year with headliners like Dolly Parton, Paul McCartney, Janet Jackson, Bruno Mars, Bruce Springsteen and The Rolling Stones, but it hosts about 120 nonconcert events every year, too: monster truck rallies, “Disney on Ice,” professional bull riding tournaments and community events, like the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Little Rock appearance in 2019.

Simmons Bank Arena General Manager Michael Marion, Director of Marketing Jana DeGeorge and the rest of the arena’s employees have been sweating the pandemic’s effects, quite literally; in efforts to reduce the building’s substantial electric bill this summer, Marion said, “We were only running the chillers from 10 a.m.-3 p.m., at 78 degrees, so we got a little toasty in here. We were all wearing shorts to work.” Nearly 200 part-timers — the ones who worked on a per-event basis — have been furloughed, and the arena has laid off four of its 25 full-time employees. Since big-name performing artists collect most of the money from concert ticket sales, the arena’s bottom line depends on “a lot of things that don’t quite have the sizzle of Elton John,” Marion said, such as renting the venue out to groups like the Homebuilders Association of Greater Little Rock, which hosts a consumer home show there every year.

Crucial, too, is the nearly $2 million the arena garners every year in food and beverage sales, a portion of which has historically been donated to nonprofit groups that contract an evening’s concession stands as a fundraiser. And, like the LRCVB’s properties across the river, the arena has fixed costs that don’t go away when the

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building sits empty.

Without that ancillary revenue, Marion said, he expects the arena’s total revenues will be about $3.45 million in 2020, down from approximately $10 million in 2019. Clouding the arena’s prospects, too, is the fact that it is ineligible for federal relief measures like the Payroll Protection Program funded through the CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security) Act early in the pandemic, or for any of the $55 million made available in April through Arkansas’s Ready for Business grants. As targeted relief talks have continued this fall, the state announced in October that it would allocate $50 million in CARES Act money to assist nonprofits and businesses in the “personal care, tourism, travel, recreation, and hospitality industries,” and the Arkansas CARES Act Steering Committee approved another $150 million in targeted relief to cities and counties. But, the arena is not eligible for either allocation. “We’re in a tough position,” Marion said. “We don’t qualify for any of the state or federal benefits, because we’re partly governmental. So, even though we don’t receive anything from the taxpayers,” he said, they have received zero coronavirus relief dollars thus far. “And, by the way,” Marion said, “we pay a million in sales tax a year every year, ourselves. So that $20 million [the state] gave us 20 years ago, we’ve almost paid it back. I’m appreciative of everything they’ve done, but dang, we pay all this sales tax and we’re not eligible for anything.”

The 2020 calendar remains largely tentative for Marion; 2021, too. Nickelodeon star JoJo Siwa is on the books for Aug. 17, 2021, and Maroon 5 for the following night, but whether big concerts can happen safely any sooner, or will get postponed even further, Marion said, “could all change tomorrow.” The arena is holding a date for a potential Razorbacks basketball game this December. If it happens, Marion says, the audience capacity will likely be reduced to around 4,500 seats, or 25 percent of the arena’s 18,000-seat capacity.

“It’s just the nature of where we are. We’re all waiting on the vaccine. That’s gonna be the kicker as far as getting back to normal. … I have no argument with any of the state regulations.

I personally think the governor’s done a good job, and the arena certainly supports all the measures he’s taken, whether it’s requiring the mask, or the social distancing, or minimizing crowds.”

Meanwhile, Marion, DeGeorge and crew are starting small — and outdoors. They hosted a closed-to-the-public, live-streamed concert from country singer and Poyen (Grant County) native Justin Moore in April to benefit Arkansas food banks, and held Food Truck Fridays every week in October, opening up its VIP parking lot to local eateries for a few hours and selling the arena’s own concession stand offerings, too.

“There’s some good amidst all of it,” Marion said, and when the virus’ threat subsides, “we’ll be so busy we won’t know what to do.” ***

in late September. “And I hate it, because it doesn’t seem like things have gotten much better.” Four Quarter reopened Aug. 1, not because Arkansas’s coronavirus cases were subsiding (they weren’t), but because Robinson felt he had no other choice.

“Every day, it’s just a moral dilemma in my head,” he said. “Doing what’s right for my employees and my business, trying to stay afloat, but also trying to get this to stop.” Robinson’s put in plexiglass barriers between tables and installed an iWave air purifier in the building’s ventilation system. He’s posted signs letting people know how to order safely from the bar, and directing them to remove their masks only while seated. He’s booked zero indoor concerts.

Because of Four Quarter’s shotgun layout, he’s operating at well below the 66 percent capacity restriction. Though restaurants are now allowed to operate at two-thirds capacity, “really, safely, I can only operate at one-third capacity

Not far from Simmons Bank Arena sits Four Quarter Bar, in North Little Rock’s picturesque Argenta Arts District. Late Midtown Billiards maven Maggie Hinson helped her longtime bartender Conan Robinson establish Four Quarter in 2015, and Robinson has methodically revamped the place over the last half-decade, opening up DINING DISTRICT: Robinson skylights, booking everything said it’s been a saving grace. from blues to bluegrass, and ushering in a late-night menu that quietly rivals our scene’s higher-end eateries. You could call it a dive, but you’d be only partly right; how many dives smoke their own local pork belly and serve slices of it atop bone broth ramen? (Four Quarter Veggie Hash: Love you.

Miss you. Can’t wait to hang out again in person.)

When the state government began to lift coronavirus restrictions on Arkansas bars on May 26, Robinson kept Four Quarter’s doors closed. Opening at 33 percent capacity, he told Business Insider that month, was like “opening up to tread water and not to drown,” and he worried about the risk of exposing his employees to the virus. So he waited. Then, however, his employees’ unemployment checks stopped coming.

“I was like, ‘Yeah, I guess we’re gonna have to open back up,” Robinson told the Times

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EMPTY SEATS: Without funding from federal or state coronavirus relief packages, Gretchen Hall and Doc Doolittle of the LRCVB have been working to cut facility costs for spaces like the Robinson Center.

right now,” Robinson said. Still, he said, “You do all that, and you’re still not sure it’s all going to work. It’s tough. I don’t wanna be part of the problem.”

Here’s the surprising thing, though: Four Quarter Bar is approaching pre-COVID levels of business, and Robinson has two more people on his payroll than he did when the pandemic began. His saving grace, he said, has been twofold. For one thing, North Little Rock approved the creation of an Argenta Outdoor Dining District in June, allowing patrons to carry alcoholic beverages outdoors within the confines of the district. “We close the streets off at 6 on Friday,” Robinson said, “and all the businesses down here are set up with 12 tents per business. It’s just an extension of our bar, is what it is. And that has helped phenomenally.” He and his fellow Argenta business owners — Brood and Barley, Flyway, Reno’s, Skinny J’s, Capeo and others — partner more closely than they did before the pandemic, Robinson said. They meet every Tuesday to debrief the prior weekend’s successes, and to cook up new events — chili cookoffs, cheese dip competitions — “just to get people down to do some things outside that feel normal again.”

As of Sept. 30, Robinson had booked 15 or 16 outdoor shows across the street from the bar, bringing the likes of percussionist Mike Dillon and Northwest Arkansas-based string band Arkansauce to the steps of the Laman Library.

“They’re playing in front of this really cool building, with these pillars,” Robinson said, “and they’re at least 100 feet away from anyone, and the sound just kinda carries down through the street. It’s pretty awesome.”

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dining district visitors on the weekends. “We’ve turned into a ‘sit down and enjoy some drinks,’ instead of a ‘get done eating and come out here to drink and socialize,’ and I think taking that turn in my business model is what’s keeping us afloat right now.”

The people he doesn’t see as much: the service industry workers who used to come in after their shifts and have a drink at the bar — people who, Robinson says, are among the most COVID-cautious, and are heading home after their shifts instead. “Our crowd’s changed a lot,” he said. “I’m missing a lot of my regulars.” *** The Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau manages the Statehouse Convention Center, Robinson Center, multiple downtown parking facilities and the River Market, including Ottenheimer Hall, First Security Amphitheater and the open-air pavilions in Riverfront Park. Like other CVBs around the country, Little Rock’s is funded primarily by hotel and restaurant taxes.

In 2019, tax receipts accounted for 74 percent of LRCVB’s $20.1 million in revenue, and events at Robinson Center and the Statehouse Convention Center accounted for another 15 percent.

As late as March 3, 2020, the Bureau’s press releases sounded sunny; LRCVB’s governing body, the Advertising & Promotion Commission, was preparing to celebrate its 50th anniversary, and the touring Broadway productions of “Wicked” in January had packed audiences into Robinson Center. Food and lodging tax revenue for 2019 was up 4.19 percent from 2018, and revenues from the River Market Entertainment District, established in August 2019, continued to bode well for the CVB’s bottom line, with the new district allowing people to take their alcoholic beverages outdoors bringing in new customers. But the LRCVB’s health de-

pends on hotel beds being occupied and restaurants being full, neither of which is happening right now. When the tourism industry in Arkansas began to take a nosedive in mid-March and event cancellations flooded in, Hall and her team began cutting variable costs, suspending nightly cleaning services wherever they could. It wasn’t enough. In April, the bureau furloughed 65 full-time employees and 100 parttime workers. Eventually, facing an anticipated annual revenue loss of around $6.5 million and fixed maintenance costs, the LRCVB laid off 39 people in September — 35 full-time workers and four part-time — losing nearly a third of its staff.

“We couldn’t justify keeping them on furlough because of the financial situation, and knowing that we probably won’t return to 2019 business levels until 2022 and beyond,” Hall said.

Like Simmons Bank Arena, the LRCVB’s classification as a governmental entity means it has been ineligible for either federal or state relief.

Stacy Hurst, who directs the Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism, led the development of the $50 million allocation program for Arkansas’s hospitality industry, and worked with Hall and the LRCVB to develop its parameters. The LRCVB, too, was involved in “numerous conversations” about the details of the $150 million allocated for cities and counties, Hall said.

But neither allocation funded the LRCVB. The hope is for leftovers: “Many feel that every city and county will not be able to utilize their full allocation,” Hall said. On Oct. 20, the Little Rock Board of Directors asked the state for $3 million for the CVB from the federal relief program’s yet-unallocated funds.

Meanwhile, Little Rock’s restaurants, Hall said, are rebounding much more quickly than its hotels; a report provided to the LRCVB showed that downtown hotel occupancy plummeted by 85 percent in April 2020 over April 2019. It’s improved incrementally each month — down 54 percent in August, down 46 percent in September — and is down about 47 percent for the year.

“We’re hopeful that we’ll get through the rest of this year,” Hall said, “but ’21’s a different story.

We know based on our research and our own bookings that the recovery for tourism here, and for us, will take multiple years. To really come back to pre-COVID levels, we’re looking at, probably, two years, and it’s gonna be tight, especially if we aren’t able to receive any support from the federal or state level.”

Hall says she’s been excited to hear from many of her former employees — the ones LRCVB laid off in September — who have since found employment elsewhere. And, she said, “We still have another 18 members on full or partial furlough, and we’re hoping to bring them back full-time by the first of the year.”

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In response to the growing needs of our community, The BridgeWay has expanded its continuum of care for substance use disorders. The acute rehabilitation program will provide hope and recovery for adults struggling with substance use disorders. Led by Dr. Schay, and a Board Certified Psychiatrist and Addictionologist, the Substance Use Disorder Rehabilitation Program is for adults at risk of relapse. Rehabilitation requires the supportive structure of a 24-hour therapeutic environment.

To learn more about our continuum of care for substance use disorders, call us at 1-800-245-0011.

Physicians are on the medical staff of The BridgeWay Hospital but, with limited exceptions, are independent practitioners who are not employees or agents of The BridgeWayHospital. The facility shall not be liable for actions or treatments provided by physicians.

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NOVEMBER 2020 GREEK LIFE

The Arkansas Center for the Book at the Arkansas State Library recently selected “Lifestyles of Gods & Monsters” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019) by Little Rock resident Emily Roberson to represent Arkansas at the 2020 National Book Festival.

Every year participating states choose a title for children or young adults that will appear on the Library of Congress’ “Great Reads” map. Selected titles are written by authors from the state, take place in the state or celebrate the state’s culture and heritage.

In this highly praised debut YA novel — said to be written in part at Boulevard Bread Co. in the Heights — Greek mythology meets the Kardashians as Roberson weaves a soapy, inventive retelling of a 16-year-old Ariadne.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Celebrate Native American Heritage Month at Toltec Mounds Archeological State Park. In addition to European and African traditions, the foodways of the Southeastern American Indians helped shape the cuisine of the modern South. Join a park interpreter at Toltec to learn about traditional Southern foods inspired by Native Americans and sample a variety of dishes. Arrive early before the samples run out. The visitors center is open Tues-Sat 8am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. Closed on Monday. Tickets are $5 per person, 6 and under free.

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FULL STEAM AHEAD AT MOD The Museum of Discovery’s mission is to ignite and fuel a passion for science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) through dynamic and interactive experiences. Whether you choose to visit the museum in person or virtually, the museum has a number of offerings that will engage kids and parents. MOD now offers “Family Field Trips,” public field trip programming for families, “pods” and homeschool groups. Trip programs, 30-45 minutes in duration, are public but have limited seating, so register in advance. Private family field trips can be scheduled through Beth Nelsen at 501-537-3073 or bnelsen@museumofdiscovery. org. Museum members pay $3, nonmembers $10 (includes all-day admission). museumofdiscovery.org

ALL FRIED UP

Camp Aldersgate is putting its own spin on curbside pick-up at this year’s fish fry. “Drive-Thru Fish Fry 2020” will be held 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8. In traditional fish fry fashion, each ticket sold will include a delicious meal box with all the fixin’s.

This year, attendees will have the option to pre-order meals on the online ticketing website and pick them up at a drive-thru at OrthoArkansas, or purchase paper tickets/place day-of orders at an onsite drive-thru location at Camp Aldersgate. It will be Aldergate’s 37th annual fish fry.

Camp Aldersgate, 2000 Aldersgate Road, Little Rock; 225-1444; $15. www.campaldersgate.net/fish-fry

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PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRIAN CHILSON

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HARLAN, AGE 6, WAS DIAGNOSED WITH TYPE 1 DIABET ES AT AGE 3 AFTER HER MOM, SUSIE, NOTICED SOME OF THE WARNING SIGNS.

t’s an overcast fall day, the air thick with the coming rain, as I sit with Susie Dubois on her back porch in West Little Rock. The covered deck, which looks out on trees that back up to the house, offers a welcome refuge under the gray skies; there’s a vintage turquoise glider and jumbles of lovingly tended potted plants; the family rescue puppy, Finn, settles in with a stick on the brightly patterned rug. The screen door slams intermittently as the kids, Harlan (6) and Malcolm (8), emerge to cuddle the dog or lean into Susie; her husband, Justin, a nurse practitioner, occasionally sticks his head out the door to ask her a question about online school, which he’s handling this morning. A swing chair hangs in the corner that an exuberant, smiling Harlan jumps in and out of from time to time.

You’d never guess that this sweet, lively girl recently marked her third “diaversary,” diabetes diagnosis anniversary, on July 17. Before taking Harlan to the pediatrician that day, Susie knew that something wasn’t right.

Harlan was thirsty all the time and had started wetting the bed. In the doctor’s office, her blood sugar registered 451; a normal reading is around 90. They rushed her to the ER where they started an IV. To the amazement of the nurses, she didn’t shed a tear. Susie explained, “She has a high threshold for pain, and she’s very tough.” These were qualities that would serve her well in the coming months, and years, because Harlan was about to receive a life-changing diagnosis of type 1 diabetes.

“The best metaphor I can come up with for those first few days in the hospital was that it felt like a tidal wave crashing over my head. ... I was in shock at first,” Susie said. “The attending doctor asked me if I’d cried yet.

I said no. She said, ‘It’s OK to cry. I would cry.’ And I was like, ‘My child’s right here, and I need to be strong for her.’ Justin, who was at work that day, came to stay with Harlan, and I went home and packed my suitcase, had a glass of wine, got in the shower and bawled. Just cried and cried.

It was hugely cathartic. When I got back to the hospital and saw Justin’s face, I said, ‘OK, now you need to go cry.’ And I still cry. I mean, you power through it, and you’re stoic, and do what you need to do, and then every once in a while you have to break down and cry. The nurses were incredible; I just kept saying, ‘I don’t know if I can do this; I can’t do it,’ and they kept reassuring me, ‘You got this.’ ” Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease. People with type 1 cannot produce insulin, the hormone that controls blood-sugar levels. Why the body’s immune system causes the pancreas to quit making insulin is not fully known, but genetics and environmental components are suspected.

Some 1.6 million Americans are living with type 1, including about 200,000 youth (younger than 20) and more than 1 million adults (20 years old and older). Five million people in the U.S. are expected to have it by 2050. It strikes children and adults suddenly and indiscriminately and has nothing to do with diet or lifestyle. It is not preventable, and there is currently no cure.

It’s a puzzling, relentless disease that affects the whole family. November is Diabetes Awareness Month.

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Susie recalled, “I remember talking with the nurse, and she said when one child is diagnosed with type 1, truly the whole family is. … Malcolm has to make a lot of sacrifices, too, that most 8-year-olds don’t have to make.” And, of course, parents have to live with the ongoing, pervasive stress of having a child whose health is in constant peril and flux.

Susie despairs when someone reaches out to tell her they have a friend who’s just received a diagnosis; through tears, she says, “I hate to hear that news ... but when I text or call that person, I say, ‘I’m so sorry to welcome you into this club that nobody wants to be in, but the silver lining — and there are silver linings — is the amazing community. ...

Type 1 families have each other’s backs.”

Susie described a kind of awakening of the heart that can occur after such a life-altering diagnosis. “The amount of empathy, understanding and compassion you feel for another family is profound ... because everything is changing ... everything will change. It opens something inside of you because it’s pain ... it’s grief. And, through time, those feelings open doors into a deeper sense of love. And that’s true for us, but it’s also true for Harlan. That child,” her voice catches, and she pauses before continuing, “ ... that child has so much compassion and resiliency, and that is such a beautiful thing.”

Susie also has immense gratitude for the resources and support she and Justin have — and for her marriage. “We don’t always get along, but we’re a team, so for that I’m deeply thankful. We might sometimes have different approaches, and we might disagree, but in the end we’re working together, for Harlan.” Also on her gratitude list: insurance, insulin and people who care — no small things. “But,” Susie adds, “it’s still a very lonely disease. And for people who don’t have what we have, it’s absolutely heartbreaking. Because it’s a terrible disease. You manage it, but you can’t control it. It’s one day at a time, sometimes it’s one hour at a time, and you just gotta roll with it.

“There are days I just want to crawl in bed and put a blanket over my head and wallow in self-pity, but I can’t because I have to show up.

There are days when Harlan says, ‘Mom, I just wish there wasn’t such a thing as diabetes.’ And I say, ‘Me, too, baby, but you know what? You are doing awesome every single day, and I’m right here with you every step of the way, and sometimes we’re going to be sad, and we’re going to cry, and sometimes we’re going to be angry, and that’s OK. You get to feel mad and upset.’ ... She has moments when she wants to rage, and I say, ‘Go for it. Don’t hurt anybody, don’t hurt yourself, but get it out because it makes me want to rage, too.’ ” Until there’s a cure, they manage with technology, in their case two devices: a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) and a pump. The CGM, which Harlan wears at all times, checks her blood sugar every 5 minutes and has to be replaced every 10 days (not a pain-free process); it’s synched to an iPhone so Susie can check her readings. “It updates me every 5 minutes, and it tracks trends,” she says. “When we got the CGM, the Dexcom rep said, ‘This is going to blow your mind. You’ve been looking at Polaroid snaps, you’re about to have live feed 24/7.’

And it did; it’s amazing.”

It’s a rare moment when Harlan is device-free. “She always has things stuck on her body,” Susie said, but, thankfully, gone are the days when 10-15 finger pricks were the norm. Now they only have to do that on occasion. “Every carbohydrate that enters her body, we are counting it. She has her own formula of insulin that we set up with her endocrinology team, but that’s where the pump comes in. At the beginning we were doing a minimum of four shots a day. You want a snack? You have to get a shot. How much does that suck? She got an Omnipod pump at age 4 because it’s tubeless and waterproof, and we’re in the water all summer. Other pumps are more predictive, and hopefully we’ll do that in the future and have a little more latitude, but for now [it works].

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‘We have amazing tools,

and I thank God for the resources, and I thank science, and there’s a lot of exciting research going on around the country.’

— Susie Dubois

“I am that child’s pancreas. Justin and I keep her alive. We have amazing tools, and I thank God for the resources, and I thank science, and, there’s a lot of exciting research going on around the country. The technology is getting better — and we love it and we need it — but, of course, we want a cure. It’s tough, though, because it’s such a weird disease; every diabetic is different, so what works for one person might not work for someone else, and what works today isn’t necessarily going to work tomorrow. It’s so nebulous.”

The organization JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) is the world’s largest nonprofit funder of type 1 diabetes research, and Susie applauds their efforts and the local chapter’s success at fundraising with the annual walk. JDRF also pursues new treatments, advocates for increased government funding for research, and works with academia, clinicians, insurers and regulators to get new therapies and devices to market quickly and safely. Susie noted that there are also smaller companies working to find a cure, so she remains hopeful.

Recent issues like the fluctuating cost of insulin and the coronavirus

pandemic have posed new challenges to those suffering from type 1 diabetes. Even with health insurance, Susie and her family paid well over $6,000 out of pocket last year for supplies and went into credit card debt. She said people have resorted to trading insulin with other families and hacking into old insulin pumps. It’s a closeknit community whose ethos is “let’s take care of each other and be problem-solvers.” That said, Susie knows she’s one of the lucky ones.

Through tears she said, “People are dying because of the cost of insulin.

It shouldn’t be this way. I shouldn’t have to go into credit card debt to keep my child alive.” According to JDRF, in the U.S., the price tag for type 1 associated diseases is $16 billion in treatment and lost income annually. Fewer than one-third of people with type 1 in the U.S. are consistently achieving target blood-glucose control levels. Three big pharmaceutical companies hold the patent to insulin and control costs.

“It’s greed. It’s evil,” Susie said, shaking her head.

As for COVID-19 and similar viral illnesses — such as the flu — they pose serious risks for people with diabetes, though type 1 doesn’t make someone more susceptible to contracting COVID. Still, Susie said, “There are so many unknowns with COVID. Maybe Harlan would get it and be fine. But I’m not willing to take that risk, so we’re very protective.” Susie notes that even pre-COVID, sending a child with type 1 diabetes to school was a harrowing prospect. Before the pandemic, she worked at Harlan’s school to be able to monitor her. The kind of vigilance the disease demands from parents is intense, and can’t always be successful. Susie once served tortellini for dinner, and it was difficult to measure. As a result, “Harlan almost started acting drunk; her pupils dilated; she started sliding down in her seat. When that happens, the adrenaline kicks in, and you spring into action and get a juice box in her mouth. And then 15 minutes later she’s fine … .

“This is one of the only diseases where you’re making life and death

decisions, you’re making choices or having to do these interventions all of a sudden. We do checkups every three months with our endocrinology team, who we love and need, but day to day we’re on our own.” It’s an emotional roller coaster. “It is; it’s traumatic,” says Susie.

“In a way it’s like PTSD, but it’s ongoing. That’s why you have to be stoic and resilient because you just can’t let the disease totally take over.”

Easier said than done — especially considering Justin and Susie haven’t had a full night’s sleep in years. Harlan’s blood sugar fluctuates during the night, so Susie and Justin take turns popping a juice box in her mouth as needed. “She drinks it in her sleep!” Of course, it’s harder for parents to fall back to sleep so easily and that can take a toll.

Susie, however, chooses to remain positive and hopeful. She finds solace in yoga, hiking, embroidering, reading and working in her garden. The whole family loves camping and the outdoors, and in their five years in Arkansas they’ve explored more of the state than most lifelong residents. They’re determined not to let the diagnosis keep them from doing the things they love. They also find a lot of support online, in Facebook groups for parents. “I can go to these people who are living the same reality we are and get immediate feedback — ideas, advice, snack suggestions” and, beyond that, a sense of community they didn’t know before.

“I can’t even remember what our lives were like before diabetes,” Susie said. “Harlan being able to go to the pantry, get herself a snack, eat whatever she wants ... I can’t even imagine that.” But she can imagine a bright future for her daughter — one in which there’s a cure.

At one point during the conversation, Harlan, attempting to jump in the swing chair, misses her mark and lands with a hard thud. She starts to cry, and Susie calmly goes to her, offering a comforting presence in a tender but not cosseting way, and soon Harlan is off and running again, the emphatic thwack of the screen door closing behind her.

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Managing Your Child's

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hen your child has diabetes, the body does not produce or respond to insulin, the hormone that breaks down sugar and carbohydrates into energy. This leads to high levels of glucose in the blood.

Type 1 Diabetes is an autoimmune condition. The body attacks its own cells in the pancreas until they can no longer produce insulin. The only treatment for Type 1 diabetes is insulin replacement. If left untreated or not well managed, the extra sugar in the blood can damage blood vessels in the eyes, nerves and kidneys, increasing the risk of heart disease and stroke.

Tips for the School Year

PE Class and Exercise Exercise can help keep blood sugars in recommended ranges. Increasing activity allows the body to use up excess glucose for energy instead of causing high blood sugars. Your child may need an extra snack with exercise, which is why it is important to monitor blood glucose levels before and during exercise. Intense exercise can affect your blood sugar for up to 24 hours.

Sick Days Patients with diabetes can take the usual over-the-counter medications like Tylenol, Ibuprofen, or Benadryl. Be aware that many liquid medications contain a sweetener. If your child can take a pill, that is a good option. When your child is sick, ensure they are staying hydrated and check for ketones every 3-4 hours.

Student Drivers When your child with diabetes is learning to drive, it’s important they take extra steps as part of their driving routine.

They should always check their blood sugar before driving.

If their blood sugar is less than 100, they should eat a snack and wait to drive until their blood sugar is more than 100 and they feel alert.

Staying on Top of Type 1 Diabetes

Diabetes is commonly referred to as a “moving target” – challenging to pin down and always changing. It’s important to visit your child’s pediatric endocrinologist every three months to maintain good control of blood sugars and adjust insulin and medication doses. Children’s medications and insulin needs can change over time, especially as children grow and become teenagers. In addition to medication management, our team also helps children understand their role and responsibilities with diabetes management as they get older.

Type 2 Diabetes occurs when the body becomes resistant to insulin or cannot make enough insulin to keep blood sugar levels normal.

Type 2 diabetes often affects children who are obese. Fat, liver and muscle cells can become insulin resistant.

Treatments include weight management, proper nutrition, and exercise. If blood sugar levels are high enough, insulin is a first-line treatment.

To request an appointment with the Arkansas Children's Diabetes Clinic, visit archildrens.org/DiabetesAR or call (501) 803-6005.

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n honor of National Family Caregivers Month, whose theme is “Caregiving Around the Clock,” we celebrate the caregivers among us—and there are many. November is dedicated to recognizing, supporting, and empowering those who care for others—a vitally important role that at times goes unappreciated or unseen. According to AARP, there are nearly 500,000 unpaid family caregivers in Arkansas--a “silent army that performs Herculean tasks for their loved ones.” The CDC reports that Arkansas is one four states with the highest prevalence of unpaid caregivers. Many of them are trying to balance those duties with full-time jobs and other family responsibilities. When you add a pandemic and online school to that mix, it can feel like a heavy load—maybe more of a Sisyphean than Herculean task.

Caretaking can take many forms. Whatever your role is, we hope these local resources for aging, children with disabilities and mental health help.

“There are only four kinds of people in the world: Those who have been caregivers. Those who are currently caregivers. Those who will be caregivers, and those who will need a caregiver.”

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Meet the Parent:

APRIL GENTRY-SUTTERFIELD April Gentry-Sutterfield is the mother of three hilariously power-packed children — Clem (12), Blythe (8) and Hollis (6) — and the wife of Spencer Sutterfield, or “SutterButter” as some of his Parkview Arts Science Magnet High School drama students affectionately call him. She’s also the director of Arts Integration Services, a business that partners with cultural institutions and nonprofits to create arts-based programs for schools and families. Visit artsintegrationservices.com for more information.

How do you organize to balance work and family?

Balance — ha! I think we’re like most families right now. There’s an increased level of anxiety everywhere. My husband is a proud drama specialist at Parkview Arts Science Magnet High School, but he’s working like he did his first year of teaching because he’s creating all new content in a format for which there are no best practices yet — and still trying to create theater opportunities for students in this environment! I wouldn’t dare say we’re “balanced,” but we do prioritize each other. There was a time when it felt like several couples we knew and loved divorced once they got their kids through a certain stage of life. I looked at Spencer one night and said: “You know, I want us to last longer than the time it takes to get our kids from one stage to another.” And we made a decision right then and there to prioritize our relationship with each other — what we committed to before these little weirdos came into our life — over and above our relationship to each other as mere co-parents.

What’s your biggest parenting challenge?

I’m answering these questions at 11:56 on a Sunday night because my family spent the day out in nature in spite of — or maybe because of — our workloads. Now, more than ever, we need the natural world. In a time when live, sensorystimulating activities like shopping, schooling, churching, friending and so much more have gone virtual, climbing rocks and wading through a creek really shock the system in the best possible way. We want

our kids to experience that, so they understand life is more than striking keys on a laptop.

What does school look like for your family this year?

I’m virtual schooling our three amazing children during the day.

Their teachers at Forest Heights STEM Academy are doing such good work. Can you imagine what it’s like for all these teachers to be observed nonstop by parents and who knows how many people every day? I’m so impressed by their skill

and creativity in facilitating both students in the live classroom and on the screen and the grace with which they handle parents like me with lots of questions.

What are your favorite “family time” activities?

Arkansas is such a beautiful state that you’ve just got to get outdoors! We love to kayak, camp and explore new natural spaces.

We recently discovered The Nature Conservancy’s William Kirsch Preserve, a beautiful oasis on the edge of suburbia in West Little Rock. My kids love walking through the fields of jimson weed and hiking along the Little Maumelle River.

Name three things that are helping your family get through 2020.

As I’ve already said, cool natural spaces, [including TNC’s] Rattlesnake Ridge, have saved us during this pandemic! Since my

husband and I are both artists, we are deeply missing live theater and music, but we are so thankful for the arts still available to us. Our family does more movie nights now (you should have seen us watching “Hamilton”!), and we are reading the “How to Train Your Dragon” book series, which I highly recommend. There’s a kind of messy, hilariously irreverent, indie-punk vibe to the book series that the movie just doesn’t capture.

Then the phrase coined by Tom and Donna on “Parks and Recreation,” “treat yo’ self” is regularly heard to justify the pickle chips and jalapeno Cheetos and dark chocolate we regularly consume right now!

How do you recharge? What does your “me time” look like?

I find I’m recharged by very tactile, bodily kinesthetic activities like exercise and DIY projects.

Morning exercise to motivational music is actually essential for my mental health.

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very time my friends and I arrive at a casino in the Delta region, there’s a palpable excitement. We know good things are about to happen. Parking lot highfives are followed by hyperbolic gambling predictions. “Those pit bosses are gonna wish they’d never seen us coming,” one of us will say. Never mind the fact that we’re all terrible gamblers with no bankroll and only halfbaked betting strategies: We are going to bring the house down.

Hours later, either in the wee hours of the morning or after I’ve slept it off, I find myself practically sobbing over a plate of runny eggs and wondering what went wrong and why the comped buffet meal is making me feel like I’ve lost all over again.

That seems like an unlikely outcome, at least when it comes to the food, at Saracen Casino, the Quapaw Nation’s new casino resort in Pine Bluff. The eateries in the casino, most of which opened in late October, are designed to make a gambler feel like a winner.

“We’re going to be a culinary and hospitality destination like no other in the state, I say even region,” Todd Gold, director of food and beverage at Saracen Casino, told me during a tour of the casino in late September. Gold knows that people are going to come to try their luck on the games.

“But we want just as many to come here to dine, and then they’ll go play the games,” he said.

Up until about six months ago, Gold was the associate dean of Culinary Arts and Hospitality at UA Pulaski Technical College, a program he started working on 25 years ago.

He co-owned and helped revitalize Purple Cow restaurants from 2007-2013. He received the American Culinary Central Region Chef Educator of the Year award in 2014, and in 2015 he was inducted into the Arkansas Hospitality Hall of Fame.

READY TO DEAL: Saracen’s got more than gambling on tap: Quapaw-brewed beer in the bar and eight restaurants managed by a culinary team led by (from left) Lucus Setterfield, Cindy East and Toddx Gold.

Lucus Setterfield, director of food and beverage at the Quapaw Nation’s Downstream Casino in Oklahoma, has been plotting out themes for Saracen restaurants for nearly two years, and he knew he wanted Gold to be a part of the team.

“I lived in Little Rock on and off for 20 years,” Setterfield said. “Todd [Gold] didn’t know about me, but I knew about Todd. Everyone knows about Todd. And we knew that was a relationship we wanted to be a part of.”

Before Setterfield was director of food and beverage at Downstream, he was its executive chef. As chef, he took part in conversations with members of Quapaw Nation centered around Downstream getting its own cattle and greenhouses.

“It became an initiative of Quapaw Nation to make sure that some of the agricultural products that they take pride in have the ability to kind of shine at the casino,” Setterfield said.

“They truly believe in making sure that some of that stuff is never forgotten. How you do it, education of the youth — they strive hard to make sure that people remember what it takes to do things. It really started to feel like ‘This is something different; this is something I want to be a part of for a long time.’ ” It had a similar effect on Gold when he went to see Downstream’s agricultural program for himself. Along with greenhouses, cows and bison (and its own processing plant), Downstream has its own beer brewery, coffee roasting company and beehives for honey.

“So farm to table, pasture to plate, roast to

cup, grain to glass … Lucus is doing all of this at Downstream in Oklahoma and I was just blown away,” Gold said. “Two months after that, I sent him a text that said, ‘What kind of positions are you going to have?’ The rest is history.”

Before this reporter and a photographer entered the casino in September, security did a health screening. We confirmed we had no COVID-19 symptoms or exposure and had our temperatures taken by a machine that scanned our wrists. Regular visitors to the casino will receive the same treatment.

The sight of a casino after our months of pandemic solitude was striking: The building is 200,000 square feet, 80,000 of which is gaming space that holds 2,100 slot machines, 30 gaming tables and a sports book.

“More slots on that floor than anywhere in Arkansas,” Gold said. “It just goes on and on.”

Saracen Casino will have eight restaurants, four of which are in an area called The Post, which resembles a food court. The Post’s restaurants share a kitchen, but offer four “concepts,” Setterfield said, giving the chefs the opportunity “to get creative in all kinds of ways.”

For example, one of The Post’s restaurants, Delta Farms, has been developed to showcase local produce from Delta farmers. “We wanted Delta food represented in what we did,” Setterfield said. “So the idea behind that was trying to work collaboratively with Delta farmers in the area and see if we can highlight some of their produce, highlight some of the things that they’re doing. We just picked up 30 pounds of

honey from a local honey guy.”

Delta Farms features items such as a pimento, bacon and cheese croissant, a Creole greens flatbread, a greens and grains power bowl and a smoked chicken salad club sandwich.

Saracen Express is the place to feed a burger fix; it also has fried chicken. A variety of street tacos are available from The Taqueria, including one that’s a tribute to the South. “It has pickled aioli, sweet potato fries, citrus slaw and fried catfish,” Executive Chef Cindy East said. “One of my personal favorites is the Saracen Dog — a hot dog with ground beef [and] our homemade queso, and then it’s pressed.”

East worked with Gold at Pulaski Tech.

“Our executive sous chef [at Saracen], Manley [Clark], he’s one of our culinary school graduates, so you can see a little bit of a theme going there,” Gold said. Clark is one of nearly a dozen UA Pulaski Tech culinary graduates working at Saracen. Gold said a couple more have been interviewed so he expects that number to grow.

The fourth restaurant in The Post is Coffee & Sweets. Fresh donuts are made in an automatic machine right in front of the customer and then topped with either a sugar glaze or powdered sugar. Guests can also have a cappuccino made with the Quapaw Nation’s O-Gah-Pah coffee, which is roasted at a facility about a mile away from Downstream Casino in Oklahoma.

“We have one guy that runs it,” Setterfield said, “and he roasts all the time. He packages it, he does everything with it. We get beans in from about 13 different areas of the world, 16 different ARKANSASTIMES.COM

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COOKING WITH ICOMBI: Greg Bolton shows off the high-tech ovens making their national debut at Saracen.

countries.”

Outside the food court, there’s a bar/brewery, The Legends Sports Bar. On the menu there: cheese curds, BBQ ribs, brisket, burgers, several different sandwiches and a variety of wings.

The bar also offers cheesesteak, but it doesn’t call it a Philly cheesesteak because the cheese is house-made with Quapaw-brewed beer. The beer cheese sauce is also served as an appetizer with house-made pretzels. “It’s like the pretzel is just kind of there so you don’t have to drink the beer cheese,” East said with a laugh.

Legends has a stage for live music and a dropdown projector for sporting events.

Displayed in a glass case above the bar are six gleaming beer tanks made of copper, brass and stainless steel. Each tank holds 132 gallons and has the capacity to produce 1,000 pints a week. Four of the tanks are fermenters and two are “bright tanks” where the beer is transferred after fermentation to be conditioned and carbonated. The system, from Global BeerCo out of Reno, Nev., cost roughly $200,000.

“So this beer goes nowhere else,” Setterfield said. “It’s only sold on property. It’s kegged here, we do all our own marketing, we design custom tap handles. It’s been a smashing success at Downstream. It takes up about 25 percent of our draft beer sales. We sell a whole lot of draft beer, so that is a massive market.”

Another place to eat, although not expected to open until early November, is the Quapaw Kitchen. It resembles a sectioned buffet area, but because of the pandemic nothing will be self-serve. Servers for each station will stand behind stanchions and work directly with the chefs behind the lines to plate customers’ food.

“Anything and everything you can imagine goes on in here,” Gold said. “We have a sushi roller, a roaster …”

“A hibachi grill,” East added. “We’re going to do a Creole Asian fusion station. We’ll have pizza, a Southern roots section, a chocolate fountain.”

“You’ll have Rice Crispy treats and marshmallows on a stick and you can dip them in white or dark chocolate or make it a tuxedo,” Gold said.

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“We’ll do the dipping for you,” Setterfield added.

Rather than the ubiquitous buffet self-serve ice cream machine, Quapaw Kitchen features a rotating display case for up to 12 flavors of gelato. The server will use a pedal to rotate the circular refrigerator.

It’s important to Gold and Setterfield that all the cooking is done in front of the customer.

“A lot of buffets are coming out of the kitchen with pans of food. That doesn’t happen here,” Gold said. “Our focus has been for this to be culinary and hospitality because it’s front of the house, too. It’s customer service, it’s anticipating your customers’ needs. I don’t want the ice to jingle around in the bottom of the glass; I want us to be there with a full one before that happens.”

Red Oak Steakhouse will be Saracen’s premier high-end restaurant, and it’s slated to open sometime in early November. The kitchen and a dry-aged cabinet for meats are visible through a window from the casino floor. Red Oak will be managed by Mark Lopez, former beverage manager at the Capital Hotel. Joseph Coleman, formerly of the Little Rock Marriott, will serve as executive chef.

“We’ll serve everything from duck to lamb to pork belly to halibut,” East said. “And we want to bring in fresh fish. It’s hard to get fresh fish in Arkansas. It is expensive, but when you get that beautiful fish in, it makes a huge difference.”

“We’ve got a great company that we used at the culinary school. Seafood.com does an unbelievable job. The fish is not 30 hours out of the water when we’re cooking it,” Gold said.

The steaks served at Red Oak Steakhouse will come from Quapaw Cattle Co. “We know where it is, we know where it comes from. That’s why we feature it so heavily everywhere,” Setterfield said. “That’s why we have a dry-aging case here and at Downstream.”

“Chef Derek Smith, our chef de cuisine, we got him out of Memphis, but this land was his uncle’s land,” Gold said. “He sold it to the casino. We all call him Uncle Wink. [Uncle Wink] doesn’t work for us, but he’s in here every day.”

“He quickly became family,” Setterfield said.

“Uncle Wink had a conversation with us and he said, ‘My nephew, he cooks at Folk’s Folly [Prime Steakhouse] in Memphis.’ That place is old school, wonderful. Our executive chef and sous chef went to Memphis and recruited him. We gave him Red Oak at Downstream for a night. We said, ‘You write the menu,’ and it was one of the most successful nights we ever had. All of our VIPs came through and said, ‘We want him to cook for us all the time. Everybody does great, but that guy just showed us something completely different.’ And he worked with us for about eight months at Downstream. We offered him a job on the spot. I was like, ‘I don’t know where you’re going to fit in the grand scheme of things, but we need you to be part of our story. We need you to be part of our success,’ ” Setterfield said.

One of the desserts at Red Oak that Gold is excited about is a bread pudding souffle inspired by one he had in New Orleans at Commander’s Palace.

The Employee Market Center is a place for the employees to relax and eat a hot meal when they’re on break or before or after their shift.

The center has its own restaurant. “It’s not buffet leftovers,” Setterfield said.

“One thing about Quapaw Nation,” Gold said, “They take care of their employees. They have unbelievable benefits.”

On the last leg of the tour, I asked Gold what it was about Saracen that convinced him to take the job.

“I was 25 years deep in the culinary school,” he said. “I could’ve easily done my next 16 to 20 years worth of work there and retired. So it really had to be the right thing. I’m a project guy.

I built the culinary school; I was a project owner on that thing. I helped build the Arts Center in North Little Rock for Pulaski Tech. I was on that construction team. I love construction, I love projects, I love new things, I love getting things set up, hiring people. So why not take on the biggest construction project the state of Arkansas has ever seen with the largest hiring pool of almost 400 food and beverage people? You can’t

take on anything bigger than that. I’ll be 48 in a few weeks, so it’s now or never. Do I want to make a move like that after 50? No.” None of the restaurants at Saracen Casino allows smoking. Eventually, smoking will be allowed on the casino floor, but as long as the state mask mandate stays in place, smokers will have to smoke in certain designated places outside the casino floor.

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*** Carlton Saffa, chief market officer at Saracen Casino, made sure we got to see the new Rational iCombi Pro ovens the chefs there and at Downstream are cooking in — essentially a combination steamer/convection oven/smoker.

Saracen Casino is the first operation in the U.S. to have them, Setterfield said, and it has 13. It can boil eggs in their carton — or cook octopus in a four-step process, or air fry a chicken — and it can do those things simultaneously.

Greg Bolton, executive sous chef at Downstream, had just pulled a smoked pork butt out of one of the ovens when we visited.

The ovens have a touch screen on the side, much like a smart device. Items are selected by picture and dragged into a “shopping cart.”

Bolton selects several items at once. “It will tell me when it’s time to load them, each one will cook at a different time and it will tell me when they’re done. The cabinet itself will automatically tell you because I have built these programs inside the system.”

Each rack has its own corresponding LED light. The light blinks to indicate which shelf is ready to come out. Or the oven can just text the kitchen when dinner’s ready.

“It’s a new world as far as consistency, and it saves energy,” Bolton said.

The ovens also clean themselves. Bolton showed us one of the ovens running a washing cycle. If I didn’t know any better, I would’ve thought it was a fancy dishwasher.

The first phase of development at Saracen is the casino and the restaurants, opening Oct 20.

The second phase, which will include the resort with 300-plus rooms, a spa, a resort-style pool and a convention center that can host a concert for 1,500 people or a convention-style event for 2,000, will complete the project. The question of when phase two might be complete has a lot to do with the future of the pandemic.

“We made the decision late last year to phase Saracen to focus our attention on getting the gaming floor up,” Saffa said. “With COVID, that proved to be smart,” he said.

“I don’t know anyone today who wants to be in the convention/hotel business — not a great business from a profitability standpoint at the moment, but ultimately a game floor of this scope will include a hotel and event center. The hotel lobby and first four floors are shelled out and the foundation of the convention center is in the ground. The question is, of course, what’s the outlook for the future on COVID,” he said.

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HISTORY

THE 1960 BOMBING OF THE HOME OF CARLOTTA WALLS AND THE SHAM INVESTIGATION THAT FOLLOWED.

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n November 2018, 75-year-old Herbert Monts of Southfield, Mich., received an oversized envelope for which he had waited for several years. After reading its contents, he immediately placed a call to Carlotta Walls Lanier, a childhood friend now living in Englewood, Colo. The two grew up in houses less than a block apart in Little Rock. Their families knew each other and occasionally socialized. Herbert and Carlotta were even born on the same day, Dec. 18, 1942. The contents of that envelope brought a small measure of closure to the childhood friends, but it also illustrated deep ties between past and present racial injustices.

Carlotta Walls was the youngest of the Little Rock Nine, the first Black students to attend Little Rock Central High School. Their admission in 1957 was only secured when President Dwight Eisenhower deployed federal troops. The nine students endured hell that school year, and local white citizens voted overwhelmingly to close the public high schools for the 1958-59 academic year rather than have a few Black students among a student body of over 2,000.

The high schools reopened in the fall of 1959, but only five Black students attended Central that year. Carlotta Walls and Jefferson Thomas were the only two of the Little Rock Nine who returned. The others had graduated and moved on with their lives, but Walls and Thomas needed one more year. While Walls enjoyed the acclaim that came with being one of the first Black students to attend Central, her senior year was still a miserable ordeal, a veritable endurance test from day to day. The beginning of the

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IN THE WAKE OF THE CENTRAL HIGH CRISIS, CRIME AND INJUSTICE CARLOTTA WALLS: Here with Ernest Green, she was the youngest of the Little Rock Nine. She and Jefferson Thomas were the only two of the nine who returned to Central High in 1959.

school year was punctuated by segregationist protests and a series of bombs that exploded on Labor Day, before the first day of school. The perpetrators received light sentences, and they were commuted by Gov. Orval Faubus. The only guilty person who cooperated with the prosecution, J.D. Sims, served the longest prison term, just under two years. After exhausting all appeals, ringleader E.A. Lauderdale did not begin serving any time until February 1961.

But there was another bomb during that school year. On the evening of Feb. 9, 1960, about a year before Lauderdale began his sentence for the Labor Day bombs, an explosion rocked the house at 1500 Valentine St., where Carlotta Walls and her family lived. *** The election of white moderates to the school board during the desegregation crisis — people who remained firmly committed to segregation but didn’t wave Confederate flags — helped reopen the high schools for the 1959-60 school year. But throughout the entire ordeal, terrorists had periodically targeted the home of L.C. and Daisy Bates. Bricks shattered their windows. Explosions rocked their neighborhood.

Local authorities were useless amid these attacks. In July 1959, before the schools reopened, several sticks of dynamite were hurled from a passing car at their home. The terrorists missed the house — only the yard was damaged — but the explosion “rocked dwellings for several

blocks,” Daisy Bates wired in a telegram to the U.S. attorney general. She approached federal officials because she did not trust the local police. In her memoir, Bates explained, “Police brutality was rampant. Negroes were beaten unmercifully by the city police of Little Rock at the slightest provocation.”

While local authorities never arrested anyone for the numerous attacks on the Bates residence, they quickly apprehended the culprits responsible for the 1959 Labor Day bombs. Those explosions targeted white civic leaders, crossing a line that had not been breached when the Bates home was attacked.

Police brutality was even a topic of conversation on Tuesday evening, Feb. 9, 1960, when several Black teenagers, Herbert Monts among them, gathered at the washateria at 18th and Pine streets in Little Rock, in a building owned

by Carlotta Walls’s father that still stands today.

Monts had spent most of that day bored at his house. A few days earlier, the 17-year-old had been suspended from the all-Black Horace Mann High School for trying to enter the cafeteria by a back door. Monts arrived at the washateria around 8:30 p.m. Friends and acquaintances were there just talking like folks did. Conversations among the teenagers that night ranged widely — basketball, girls, the usual teenage banter. Talk shifted to how local police harassed young Black men on a regular basis, but they also chuckled in recounting a story about police trying and failing to arrest a few who had been fighting. Everyone got away. These were the ways that teenagers made sense of the harassARKANSASTIMES.COM

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THE WALLSES HOUSE TODAY: The home of Little Rock Nine student Carlotta Walls was bombed in 1960. ment they felt on a regular basis. turned north on Maple Street where Davis lived.

At about 10:30 p.m. the group finally began Davis later recalled that the time was 10:45 p.m. to break up. As they stepped outside to head when he entered his home. Monts now walked home, Maceo Binns Jr. drove up. That day was alone down 15th Street, another block and a like any other day for Binns. He reported to work half to his house. As he passed the Walls resiearly that morning with the president of a local dence, he saw Binns come around the corner of paper company and spent the day chauffeuring Valentine Street, having dropped off the other his boss and performing menial tasks. Binns young men. People in the neighborhood knew was not particularly ambitious. He attended his car by sight and sound, its loud, modified Philander Smith College but did not complete muffler announcing his presence wherever he his studies, received an honorable discharge went. At the same time, Monts also noted a dark from the military, spent a little time in Detroit, pick-up truck occupied by two white males that but eventually returned to family and friends he tried to ignore. in Little Rock, settling for a job that provided a Monts’s mother met him at the front door. meager but steady income. After work that day, Monts grabbed a quick snack and made a cup Binns spent the late afternoon as he frequently of instant coffee while he hung up his jacket. He did, enjoying a beer with friends at the washa- wished his mother good night and went to bed. teria, only a block and a half from his residence, Binns was also an acquaintance of Cartelyou where he lived with his sister and an aunt. An and Juanita Walls, Carlotta’s parents. The Walls overcast sky hid the sun as it set shortly before family enjoyed relative comfort for a Black fam6 p.m., about the time that he walked home and ily in Little Rock in 1960. Juanita was a clerk at dozed off. the Booker Housing Project, where she collectBack at his home, Binns awoke after the 10 ed rent payments, and Cartelyou was a brick o’clock news, and he prepared to leave around mason by trade. He also assisted his father with 10:30 p.m. to pick up his girlfriend, Barbara several business and real estate investments, inOwens, from her job as a registered nurse at the cluding a diner off of John Barrow Road, where university hospital. He encountered the young Binns frequently saw him on Saturday nights. men from the washateria as they left for their The Walls family owned their home, too, the homes. ultimate statement of independence in a state A few of them bummed a ride with Binns, but with a long history of preying on Black poverty.

Monts, Marion Davis and Charles Webb headed They were a proud, independent Black family. out on foot toward their houses. The stroll home Carlotta stayed up to study that evening after was routine and short, only about half a mile for her younger sisters went to bed, but she was Monts. They arrived at Webb’s house first, then also asleep by the time Monts walked home. Her 48 NOVEMBER 2020

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mother was in the front bedroom, tired from a long day’s work, while her father lingered at the diner. Everyone slept peacefully until shortly after 11 p.m. when an explosion rocked their home. In an instant the bomb damaged one corner of the house, cracked interior walls and shattered windows. Juanita’s first memory was the sensation of floating above her bed.

Windows in neighboring homes also shattered.

The sound and impact of the blast reverberated throughout the city. Numerous people called the police department.

Words prove inadequate in describing the terror. Are the attackers still outside? Might they try again to kill us? Whom should we call? Juanita remembered leaving her bedroom and meeting Carlotta in the doorway. Whereas whites would’ve immediately called the police, Juanita first phoned a trusted neighbor, a retired teacher named A.B. Fox, who also awoke when windows in his house shattered from the impact. He immediately crossed the street to investigate. “There was glass shattered over a radio,” he later testified, “and little fragments of plaster was on the floor and that is all that I recollect, just remember that glass and stuff being on the floor and by that time the officers came in.” Juanita initially hesitated to contact the police but called them after speaking to Fox. Officers arrived within a few minutes of that call, a fact that raised suspicions that some of them anticipated the bombing.

Just up the street, Monts leapt out of bed at the sound of the explosion. A few minutes later, as neighbors ventured outside to investigate for themselves, he walked down the hill and spoke briefly with them. Police kept people away from the Walls house, and Monts soon returned home, shaken by the brazen assault. As he drifted to sleep, he kept thinking about that truck.

When he saw that police were still at the Walls residence the next morning, he voluntarily went to them and shared what he remembered about walking home.

Binns heard the blast as he waited in the parking lot of the hospital for his girlfriend, whose shift ended at 11 p.m. He was there when she exited the building, as he always was. Two other people later testified to seeing him there.

He learned exactly where the explosion occurred the next day. Binns then recalled an unusual car in the vicinity of the Walls house when he drove by the previous night on his way to the hospital. He called Cartelyou Walls and visited the house after work that afternoon, Feb. 10. FBI agents and local detectives were at the scene investigating when he arrived, so he told them what he remembered about the previous evening. On his way home, he encountered

another acquaintance from the neighborhood, asked if she knew anything, and learned that she had also seen a car circling by her house.

Binns promptly took her back to the detectives, where she shared what she knew. He left a second time, saw another person from the previous night, and took him back to the scene as well, although officers had already departed.

One other person in the vicinity of the Walls house reported unfamiliar vehicles. Only one house and the cross street stood between the home of Earzie Cunningham and the Walls residence. Cunningham was at home when the explosion occurred, and he arrived at the Walls house a few minutes after police with a partial license plate number of a suspicious vehicle and descriptions of two cars. Fox was still there with Juanita and the girls. Fox later testified, “[A]fter going in her house I went back out on the porch and about that time an officer’s car drove up and following his car was another car that had three or four youngsters in it and they might near got there before the officers.”

Recently released FBI files offer fascinating insights into how the investigation unfolded.

The whereabouts of the Labor Day bombers were quickly verified. An informant who was present at a Klan meeting that evening reported that there was no discussion of a bomb, and the FBI later determined that no active Klansmen appeared to be responsible. They also checked other known terrorists in the region, from Dallas to Nashville, Tenn. All had alibis; none became suspects. After eliminating these possibilities, the FBI processed fingerprints on an anonymous note that Jefferson Thomas had received in his locker on the day before the bombing, and they evaluated substances left by the bomb. The fingerprints could not be identified. A ballistics expert from the FBI later identified what caused the explosion: “a large amount of Black powder or a small quantity of dynamite or other high order type explosion.”

The investigation into Klan activities that night led one member to suggest that kids were probably responsible. The bombs were amateurish; the explosive load was low. The FBI took this suggestion seriously and immediately turned their attention to a group of white students at Central. The first police reports noted that there were a number of white teenagers in the vicinity of the house when the bombing occurred. Several people mentioned a dark vehicle with two or three white kids rushing away right after the bombing. Within 48 hours of the explosion, the FBI had obtained a full list of chemistry students in Junior Johnson’s chemistry class at Central, a group that included Carlotta Walls. That class had recently learned

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about explosives.

But something changed the focus of the investigation, and the police began to create a fictitious narrative that would help them implicate Binns, Monts and, if they could, Cartelyou Walls, whom local police now accused of arranging to bomb his own home while his family slept.

Police proceeded to find people who would help, unwittingly or not, construct a case that portrayed Binns and Monts as untrustworthy and dangerous, a strategy long employed against generations of young Black men before and since that time. For example, the most damaging character witness against Monts turned out to be his principal, Jeffrey Hawkins, a well-respected member of the Black middle class in Little Rock who, according to FBI notes, said that Monts was a “troublemaker capable of doing anything.” In a Feb. 17 memo, an FBI agent alleged that Monts was known to have experimented with explosives. Monts admitted that he occasionally played with a chemistry set, but he had neither made nor used black powder.

His chemistry teacher explained that Monts was a mediocre student and incapable of making a bomb, but that account didn’t fit the police narrative. Agents also visited the few stores in Central Arkansas that sold black powder. None reported recent sales; no one recognized Binns, Monts or Cartelyou Walls.

This laser-like focus on two friends of the Walls family, neither of whom knew the other well or had any possible motive, required some justification. Local police only needed to develop a story, no matter how plausible, to close the case. They built that story with the help of Earzie Cunningham.

He had been in and out of trouble with police for most of his life, having recently spent some time in jail for selling mortgaged cattle. After the bombing he ran to the door and saw two cars passing slowly by the house. By his initial account, one contained a white woman and man, and the other contained two white women and a white man. He reported the make and model of the cars to police that evening and then left the matter alone. But 48 hours after the bombing, on the evening of Thursday, Feb. 11, he answered his home phone to hear whom he believed was a white man ask if he was Earzie Cunningham.

Then the caller said, “Be careful, we’re going to kill you!” He reported this call to the police, but the threat clearly took a toll on him.

The police needed Cunningham to say that Monts or Binns made the threat; Cunningham said neither was the same voice. By this time, a young and ambitious detective, David Bentley, was assigned to the case, and the rumor around the neighborhood was that Cunningham was in trouble.

On the morning of Thursday, Feb. 18, with Monts and Binns in custody, Cunningham arrived at police headquarters to answer more questions about the bomb and to take a polygraph test. He now said he knew who bombed the house, emphasized that he didn’t do it, and began to talk about how scared he was for him50 NOVEMBER 2020

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AFTER SPENDING A DAY AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS, CUNNINGHAM CHANGED HIS STORY. HE NOW CLAIMED THAT TWO BLACK MEN WERE RESPONSIBLE. WHY DID HIS STORY EVOLVE AS IT DID? WAS IT LOCAL POLICE, SOME OF WHOM BELONGED TO THE WHITE CITIZENS COUNCIL, TRYING TO PROTECT ONE OF THEIR OWN? WAS IT INFLUENTIAL WHITE PARENTS PROTECTING THEIR KIDS? WAS IT A PROSECUTING ATTORNEY AIMING TO BECOME THE STATE’S NEXT ATTORNEY GENERAL?

self and his family. According to police reports, Cunningham talked about the two teenagers who were in the car that passed by the house before the bombing, and then were at the house seconds after the bomb went off. White teens.

The initial focus of the FBI. Many of their names have been redacted in the FBI files, but tantalizing information still appears. One was asked about the bombing by a school counselor and “from that time on began to talk quite fast, and seemed to be interested in having the conference terminated as soon as possible.” Another admitted saying at school “that he thought the bomb was placed on the wrong side of the house” and hearing others remark, “It’s too bad it didn’t kill the Negroes.”

While this person admitted hearing these comments, he told detectives that he did not know who was making them.

But on the evening of Feb. 18, after spending a day at police headquarters, Cunningham changed his story. He now claimed that two Black men were responsible. Why did his story evolve as it did? Was it local police, some of whom belonged to the Citizens Council, trying to protect one of their own? Was it influential white parents protecting their kids? Was it a prosecuting attorney aiming to become the state’s next attorney general?

Cunningham was then shown a lineup of all Black men. He picked out his young neighbor, Herbert Monts, but did not identify Binns.

Cunningham was a vulnerable Black man, and white supremacy had a way of eating up and destroying vulnerable Black men. Picking Monts out of a lineup made police happy, and maybe the teenager would forgive him. The teenager certainly wouldn’t dare retaliate against a grown man, Cunningham might have thought. Without further explanation, a police report about that evening’s inquisition says that Cunningham “later admitted it was Maceo Binns instead.” Police detained Cunningham into the wee hours of the morning. Exhausted and scared, he changed his story yet again. Now he claimed to see Monts and Binns in the middle of the street placing the bomb.

There was no evidence that Monts and Binns committed the crime; all evidence pointed in other directions. White kids at Central had just learned about using black powder to make explosives. Two young white men had recently checked out chemistry books from a local library about making explosives. One white teenager admitted to friends that he regularly made bombs and used them to have fun. He was overheard by Carlotta Walls. And, perhaps most shockingly, the chemistry teacher at Central admitted that his lessons dealt with explosives such as black powder, smokeless powder and nitroglycerin. The textbook he used had the formula and the percentages of each chemical one would use to make a bomb, and the chemistry lab at school contained all of the materials to make a bomb. And then he admitted to teaching a large group of white teenagers, after school, how to make explosives.

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pects whom local police pursued. Facts were not important; the only important thing was constructing an image of “bad” Black men. J. Edgar Hoover was so taken by these images that he wrote at the bottom of a Feb. 17 memo on the case, “Interesting the perpetrators are 2 negroes.” The false story had now advanced to the highest levels of power; possible white suspects seemingly disappeared as local police focused on the Black “perpetrators.”

As the police created their narrative, Monts and Binns were questioned for hours, sometimes under the added duress of a polygraph machine. Both consistently denied any involvement, even when they were physically abused, but the hours of questioning, the absence of any friendly face, and the immense fear took a psychological toll. Both eventually panicked, their minds undoubtedly telling them to do or say anything to get out of the situation, to protect their lives.

Eventually, Monts and Binns blamed each other. Leading questions made clear that police aimed to implicate Cartelyou Walls, so both finally said that he was also involved. In one of the more dramatic moments in the FBI records, Detective Bentley left the room where he had interrogated Binns alone. Two FBI agents entered and Binns immediately explained that the confession he had just signed was a lie; he only told the detective what he wanted to hear. When Bentley returned, the FBI agents told him what Binns had said, but with Bentley in the room, Binns was terrified and affirmed now that the statement was actually true. After their confessions, Monts and Binns were released on bail. In the safety of family, friends and legal counsel, they again denied their involvement.

The interrogation was a farce from the beginning. Neither the FBI nor the Little Rock police found a shred of evidence that implicated Cartelyou Walls in some sort of financial scam, but when we recently interviewed Detective Bentley, he still insisted that money was the motive. Walls even agreed to a polygraph test that he passed. In her memoir, Carlotta Walls recalled that her father was detained overnight and despite physical abuse, refused to sign a confession. Monts and Binns also passed their polygraphs. Both had alibis. No bomb residue was found in Binns’s car or on him. There were no bomb-making materials found at any of their homes or businesses. And yet, Monts and Binns were still prosecuted for the crime.

Binns and Monts were tried separately. Monts was tried in May, charged as an adult before an all-white jury. When the defense suggested that Monts had been physically abused and that the confession was coerced, prosecuting attorney Frank Holt responded with sworn testimony from numerous police officers who said there was no abuse. Cunningham testified against him, and Monts was quickly found guilty.

A month later, the Binns trial offered more drama. He had better representation and took the stand in his own defense. His supposed confession narrated a convoluted sequence of events that seem patently absurd.

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On the second day of the trial, the defense presented nine witnesses, and Binns testified on his own behalf. Prosecutor Holt’s primary strategy was to disparage the reputations of Black people who were bold enough to testify in a courtroom, another domain of white supremacy. After Cartelyou Walls testified that he never asked anyone to bomb his own home, the prosecutor proceeded to a line of questioning that was tried and true. “Do you belong to any organization?” he asked. “Yes,” Walls replied.

“Belong to the NAACP?” followed the prosecutor. “Yes, I am a member,” Walls affirmed.

Another compelling defense witness was a Black woman named Anita Ortega, who vividly recalled the moment when she heard the blast.

Her shift as a nurse’s aide at the university hospital ended at 11 p.m. “Well, it was an awful noise,” she remembered, “and I was coming out of the door so it frightened me.” Ortega’s husband was sitting in their car, waiting for her in the hospital parking lot. She scanned the parking lot, found him, and walked quickly toward the car. She noticed Binns waiting nearby in another car, as he usually did. Her husband had watched him arrive about 15 minutes earlier. Ortega later learned that Binns had been arrested. “I was wondering why,” she testified, “how could he have been there and there at the same time, so I said, ‘Well, I just don’t know. Maybe it is another Maceo.’ ” The police never questioned her or her husband, Rudolph Ortega.

The trial culminated when Binns took the stand. He again offered his alibi and explained his indefinite detention, sleep deprivation and psychological torture. Police threatened to press charges against his girlfriend and told him that his pastor said he never attended church. They deprived him of sleep, waking him for more questioning if he ever dozed. Police discovered pornography in his car and promised 90 days in jail if he didn’t cooperate with their investigation of the bombing. Binns had pleaded for his release to Bentley who told him, “You can’t go any place whatever, not unless you give me a statement.” Binns asked, “Well, can I withdraw the statement?” “Yes,” Bentley replied. “Nobody is going to send you up for a first offense. ... You go ahead. Everything is all right.”

Under cross examination, Binns held his ground against Holt, who undoubtedly hoped his performance would help in the upcoming election. During one tense exchange, Holt asked if Binns was mad. “I am not mad. I am not mad,” he replied. “You are just trying to place me some place I know I wasn’t. Were you there?

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The all-white jury still reached a guilty verdict. The only single piece of evidence linking Binns to the crime was his coerced confession.

On appeal, even the state Supreme Court ruled that it was inadmissible, and Binns was never tried again. Monts was less fortunate. The state Supreme Court upheld the verdict in his case, and the 17-year-old was sentenced to five years in the state penitentiary.

For now, at least, Binns disappears from the historical record. But Monts went to prison.

While historians don’t generally deal in whatifs, it’s not difficult to imagine a few scenarios where these events — this incarceration — could have utterly ruined his life. Many people in less difficult circumstances have succumbed to hopelessness and futility. A chance meeting between his parents and a family acquaintance, a Black man who had the governor’s ear, led to his early release. Three years after the bombing, his parents met with Governor Faubus to explain the circumstances, to insist on their son’s innocence. Away from the television cameras and reporters, Faubus apparently agreed with them. He arranged for Monts to leave prison after 20 months in jail.

Once the legal proceedings were discovered, we contacted Herbert Monts to ask if we might record an interview with him and apply for a formal pardon from the state of Arkansas. He submitted the application several months before the 60th anniversary of the 1957 desegregation crisis, an appropriate time to bring his story to light. Carlotta Walls and her mother, Juanita, also gave their blessing and sent a letter in support of his request.

The state of Arkansas finally got back to him two years ago, with a document in that small envelope. In a proclamation dated Nov. 4, 2018, the governor formally pardoned Herbert Monts for the crime of “Damaging Property with Dynamite.” It was, frankly, condescending. In some respects, it echoed the both-sides-ism that Faubus mastered and that remains so prevalent today. “WHEREAS, Herbert Monts has demonstrated that he has fully rehabilitated his life in that he has no subsequent felony nor misdemeanor convictions .... ” Monts’s life was not in need of rehabilitation. Indeed, he eventually moved to Detroit, led a productive life, and retired from the UAW a few years ago. But he was pleased to open that envelope and receive some acknowledgment, any acknowledgment, that his name was cleared.

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rkansas medical marijuana dispensaries are experiencing a shortage of the flower form of the product and Alcoholic Beverage Control is looking into the supply issue.

The number of medical marijuana cardholders in the state has surged past 80,000. The state has only four cultivators in operation, and dispensaries report having trouble getting some strains. The supply of other products, such as tinctures, vape cartridges and edibles, is sufficient, dispensary owners say.

“As of now, what we know is there have been shortages across the state of specific strains,” Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration spokesman Scott Hardin said. “We have not seen any dispensaries that are totally out of product altogether. Typically, [the strain issues] have been resolved in a brief period of time.”

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Sales of flower, however, account for the majority of its business, Mooney said.

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In September, Greenlight Dispensary in Helena-West Helena had been experiencing the supply crunch for about two months and was ordering just 3-5 pounds of flower from cultivators rather than the 10-15 pounds it had been able to order previously.

“Right now, there’s not enough cultivators producing enough product to keep up,” said Greenlight budtender Taylor Perkins, who places the dispensary’s weekly orders. “We’re not able to get enough flower in at one time as we need.”

Four of the state’s first five licensed cultivators are operating, and three of them provide the bulk of the inventory in the state: Bold Team in Cotton Plant, Osage Creek Cultivation in Berryville and Natural State Medicinals in Jefferson County. Delta Medical in Newport is also operating and selling to dispensaries. Natural State Wellness, also in Newport, is growing but not yet selling.

Bold Team and Osage Creek did not respond to a request for comment.

In June, the Medical Marijuana Commission addressed dispensaries’ supply concerns by licensing three more cultivators; those growers say they’ll have medical marijuana on the market in 2021. Hardin says it will be hard to know exactly where the state’s production stands until all eight licensed cultivators and all 37 licensed dispensaries are in operation. Twenty-four dispensaries are open for business.

“We are certainly concerned in that we want to know if there is a legitimate product shortage,” Hardin said. “We are really looking down the road to see, if we have eight [cultivators] and 37 [dispensaries], what is that going to look like? That’s when we are going to see the overall health of this industry in the state.”

While the ABC can look into the shortage issues, the state has no authority to compel cultivators to produce more or less product under the state constitutional amendment passed by voters in 2016. The state also cannot license more cultivation facilities, because the amendment sets the maximum at eight.

“There’s really no limit to the amount of product a cultivator can produce, or there’s no minimum they must grow,” Hardin said.

State law prohibits the Department of Finance and Administration from providing details of tax revenue or sales generated by each cultivator, and the state’s tracking software does not track sales by cultivator.

Since May 2019, Arkansas dispensaries have sold more than 24,000 pounds of marijuana for more than $154 million.

Not all dispensaries have experienced shortages. 420 Dispensary in Russellville reported having no issues with shortages and Purspirit Cannabis Co. in Fayetteville reported having few issues with supply.

“We’ll run tight on certain things, but it’s sort of an ebb and flow,” said Makenna Brennan, manager at Purspirit.

Even if the flower supply were short, Purspirit has plenty of other products available, she said.

“I have a vault full of gummies and tinctures and concentrates and vape cards and other alternative methods to deliver cannabis to patients,” Brennan said. “A lot of people just prefer flower because it’s what they’ve known.” *** Six of the state’s 29 open dispensaries have been approved to grow and sell medical marijuana products, allowing them to supplement the inventory they get from cultivators as well as grow unique products of their own.

Under Amendment 98, dispensaries can have small grow operations limited to 50 mature plants and 150 immature plants. The product grown at the dispensaries is regulated and tested in the same way as products from cultivators.

The grow facilities also must be physically connected to the dispensaries and must maintain video monitoring for surveillance, and the growing area must be locked down at all times.

The first dispensary to open in the state, Suite 443 in Hot Springs, was also the first to harvest its own crop in 2019, a few months after opening, according to DFA spokesman Hardin.

Plant Family Therapeutics in Mountain Home conducted its first harvest this summer; Executive Director Michael Lunsford said the dispensary sold its own product quickly.

“It’s been really successful,” Lunsford said.

“The reviews of patient feedback on that first [harvest] have been: ‘We want more.’

“We like the idea of being able to control our grow. When patients are saying ‘We want this,’ we are able to walk to the back of the building and start growing that.”

The dispensaries that have harvested and sold their own product include Plant Family Therapeutics (Mountain Home); 420 Dispensary (Russellville); Harvest (Conway); Suite 443 (Hot Springs); Hensley Wellness Center (Hensley); and Greenlight Dispensary (Helena-West Helena).

Acanza (Fayetteville) is growing its first crop but has not yet harvested, according to Hardin. High Bank Cannabis dispensary (in Pine Bluff, formerly known as Pain Free RX), which opened in October, has also been approved to grow.

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ADMINISTRATIVE / REGULATORY LAW STUART L. SPENCER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock APPELLATE PRACTICE KAEL K. BOWLING Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers CHARLIE CUNNINGHAM Wilson & Haubert 501-372-1212 One Riverfront Place, Suite 745 North Little Rock KATHY MCCARROLL Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

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KAEL K. BOWLING Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers

JACOB P. FAIR Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock R. SETH HAMPTON Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock LINDSEY EMERSON RAINES Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock BANKRUPTCY AND CREDITOR DEBTOR RIGHTS / INSOLVENCY AND REORGANIZATION LAW BEN PERRY Kersten, Lambert, & Perry 501-760-0882 Three Financial Center Building Little Rock

BO RENNER RMP 479-443-2705 5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale

LINDSEY EMERSON RAINES Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

MOLLY S. SHEPHERD PPGMR Law 870-862-5523 100 East Church Street El Dorado BANKING AND FINANCE LAW MELISSA BANDY Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock 62 NOVEMBER 2020

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MARY-TIPTON THALHEIMER Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS (INCLUDING LLCS AND PARTNERSHIPS) DAVID BISCOE BINGHAM Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock WADE BOWEN Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 870-938-6262 100 East Huntington Avenue, Suite C Jonesboro ASHLEY L. GILL Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock BLAKE D. LEWIS Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock BROOKLYN PARKER Jason Owens Law Firm 501-764-4334 1023 Main Street, Suite 203 Conway CIVIL RIGHTS LAW CAITLIN CAMPBELL Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock COMMERCIAL LITIGATION JOHN E. ALEXANDER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650 4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

PHILIP A. ELMORE Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 479-444-5200 4100 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 310 Springdale JACOB P. FAIR Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock ROBERT A. GAINES Steel Wright Gray 501-251-1587 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2910 Little Rock

MICAH GOODWIN Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650 4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

BROOKLYN PARKER Jason Owens Law Firm 501-764-4334 1023 Main Street, Suite 203 Conway JUSTIN E. PARKEY Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro BO RENNER RMP 479-443-2705 5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale SAINABOU M. SONKO Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock SAMUEL T. WADDELL Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro

NICHOLAS D. HORNUNG Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock CHRISTOPH KELLER Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

QUINTEN J. WHITESIDE Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock THOMAS H. WYATT Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

J. LAUREN BALL Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro KATHERINE C. CAMPBELL Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers

KATHY MCCARROLL Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

JESSICA PRUITT KOEHLER Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

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CONSTRUCTION LAW ROBERT A. GAINES Steel Wright Gray 501-251-1587 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2910 Little Rock KATHY MCCARROLL Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND COMPLIANCE LAW PIERCE G. HUNTER Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock BLAKE D. LEWIS Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock CORPORATE LAW MICHAEL GOSWAMI Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock PIERCE G. HUNTER Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock MATTHEW D. MITCHELL Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers WILLIAM R. MULLEN Smith Hurst 479-301-2444 Hunt Tower, Suite 900 Rogers NATALIE E. RAMM Legal Aid of Arkansas 870-972-9224 711 Towne Oaks Drive Little Rock CRIMINAL DEFENSE: GENERAL PRACTICE DEGEN D. CLOW Wilson & Haubert 501-372-1212 One Riverfront Place, Suite 745 North Little Rock

EDUCATION LAWMATT BENSON Wilson & Haubert 501-372-1212 One Riverfront Place, Suite 745 North Little Rock

NICHOLAS WILLIAMS Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock

ELDER LAW BRANDON M. HAUBERT Wilson & Haubert 501-372-1212 One Riverfront Place, Suite 745 North Little Rock

IMMIGRATION LAW CAITLIN CAMPBELL Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock

ENERGY LAW STUART L. SPENCER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

ALLISON C. PEARSON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

MADELINE TAYLOR Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock ENVIRONMENTAL LAW R. SETH HAMPTON Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock STUART L. SPENCER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock FAMILY LAW CHARLIE CUNNINGHAM Wilson & Haubert 501-372-1212 One Riverfront Place, Suite 745 North Little Rock ANDREA MCCURDY McCurdy Law & Mediation 479-439-8881 1845 Main Drive Fayetteville HALEY SMITH Owens Mixon and Gramling 870-551-3989 100 East Matthews Avenue Jonesboro HEALTH CARE LAW ERIC D. JACKSON Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 234 East Millsap Road, Suite 200 Fayetteville

INSURANCE LAW JOHN E. ALEXANDER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650 4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers KELLY D. MARCHAND Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock KATHY MCCARROLL Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock SAMUEL T. WADDELL Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro QUINTEN J. WHITESIDE Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock NICHOLAS WILLIAMS Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock

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K. BRANDON MIDDLETON Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW EMPLOYEE CHRIS W. BURKS Wilson & Haubert 501-372-1212 One Riverfront Place, Suite 745 North Little Rock LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW MANAGEMENT DEVIN R. BATES Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock MAGGIE BENSON Littler Mendelson 479-582-6100 The Fulbright Building, Suite 204 Fayetteville CAITLIN CAMPBELL Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock KATHERINE C. CAMPBELL Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers LAUREN GRINDER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

ALLISON C. PEARSON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

ROBERT A. GAINES Steel Wright Gray 501-251-1587 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2910 Little Rock

NICHOLAS WILLIAMS Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock

LITIGATION - INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY K. BRANDON MIDDLETON Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

LAND USE AND ZONING LAW MICHAEL GOSWAMI Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock LITIGATION - BANKING AND FINANCE ANDREW TARVIN Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 234 East Millsap Road, Suite 200 Fayetteville LITIGATION BANKRUPTCY BRANDON M. HAUBERT Wilson & Haubert 501-372-1212 One Riverfront Place, Suite 745 North Little Rock LITIGATION CONSTRUCTION JOHN E. ALEXANDER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650 4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

PAYTON C. BENTLEY Clark Law Firm 479-856-6380 244 West Dickson Street, Suite 201 Fayetteville KAEL K. BOWLING Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers

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LITIGATION - LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT MAGGIE BENSON Littler Mendelson 479-582-6100 The Fulbright Building, Suite 204 Fayetteville PAYTON C. BENTLEY Clark Law Firm 479-856-6380 244 West Dickson Street, Suite 201 Fayetteville TERA D. JOHNSON Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

MASS TORT LITIGATION / CLASS ACTIONS - DEFENDANTS GRAHAM C. TALLEY Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock MEDICAL MALPRACTICE LAW DEFENDANTS DEVIN R. BATES Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock TYLER D. BONE Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock DUSTIN DARST RMP 501-918-9995 11601 Pleasant Ridge Suite, 301 Little Rock

BROOKLYN PARKER Jason Owens Law Firm 501-764-4334 1023 Main Street, Suite 203 Conway LITIGATION REAL ESTATE PAYTON C. BENTLEY Clark Law Firm 479-856-6380 244 West Dickson Street, Suite 201 Fayetteville

CLINTON DEWITT RMP 501-918-9995 11601 Pleasant Ridge Suite, 301 Little Rock

KAEL K. BOWLING Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers ANDREW TARVIN Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 234 East Millsap Road, Suite 200 Fayetteville

DUSTIN K. DOTY Wright Lindsey Jennings 479-986-0888 3333 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 510 Rogers LAUREN GRINDER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

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JORDAN BROYLES HALLENBECK Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock JESSICA PRUITT KOEHLER Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock JUSTIN E. PARKEY Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro

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PIERCE G. HUNTER Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

BLAKE D. LEWIS Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock MATTHEW D. MITCHELL Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers WILLIAM R. MULLEN Smith Hurst 479-301-2444 Hunt Tower, Suite 900 Rogers NATURAL RESOURCES LAW MICAH GOODWIN Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650 4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

GLENN S. RITTER Wright Lindsey Jennings 479-986-0888 3333 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 510 Rogers

KELLY D. MARCHAND Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

MELISSA BANDY Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

GRAHAM C. TALLEY Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

KATIE W. BRANSCUM Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION PLAINTIFFS ROBERT WELLS Wells & Wells 870-782-4084 225 South Church Street Jonesboro

MICHAEL GOSWAMI Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

PRODUCT LIABILITY LITIGATION DEFENDANTS LAUREN GRINDER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

NONPROFIT / CHARITIES LAW NATALIE E. RAMM Legal Aid of Arkansas 870-972-9224 711 Towne Oaks Drive Little Rock

NICHOLAS D. HORNUNG Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

SAMUEL T. WADDELL Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro

OIL AND GAS LAW MICAH GOODWIN Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650 4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

JESSICA PRUITT KOEHLER Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS LAW KATIE W. BRANSCUM Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION DEFENDANTS ADAM D. FRANKS Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400 Little Rock

SAINABOU M. SONKO Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

THOMAS W. HAYNES Snellgrove, Langley, Culpepper, Williams & Mullaly 870-932-8357 111 East Huntington Avenue Jonesboro

DAVID F. KOEHLER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

SAINABOU M. SONKO Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

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PUBLIC FINANCE LAW ASHLEY EDWARDS Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

R. SETH HAMPTON Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock THOMAS W. HAYNES Snellgrove, Langley, Culpepper, Williams & Mullaly 870-932-8357 111 East Huntington Avenue Jonesboro

KASPER HUBER RMP 479-443-2705 5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale JENNIFER CARLETON MCKEOWN Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 234 East Millsap Road, Suite 200 Fayetteville MATTHEW D. MITCHELL Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers

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SECURITIES / CAPITAL MARKETS LAW KATIE W. BRANSCUM Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock PIERCE G. HUNTER Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock BLAKE D. LEWIS Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock TAX LAW DAVID BISCOE BINGHAM Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock WADE BOWEN Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 870-938-6262 100 East Huntington Avenue, Suite C Jonesboro

KAYLEIGH C. DULANEY Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock ASHLEY L. GILL Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

SIDNEY L. LEASURE Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock BLAKE D. LEWIS Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock WILLIAM R. MULLEN Smith Hurst 479-301-2444 Hunt Tower, Suite 900 Rogers TRANSPORTATION LAW QUINTEN J. WHITESIDE Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock TRUSTS AND ESTATES DAVID BISCOE BINGHAM Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock WADE BOWEN Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 870-938-6262 100 East Huntington Avenue, Suite C Jonesboro KAYLEIGH C. DULANEY Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock ASHLEY L. GILL Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

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ADMINISTRATIVE / REGULATORY LAW JUSTIN ALLEN Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock TIM BOE Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock FREDERICK K. CAMPBELL Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock JOHN D. DAVIS Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock DOAK FOSTER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock LEE J. MULDROW Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock FRANK B. NEWELL Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400 Little Rock

AGRICULTURE LAW VINCENT CHADICK Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 479-444-5200 4100 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 310 Springdale

STACI DUMAS CARSON Watts, Donovan, Tilley & Carson 501-372-1406 2120 Riverfront Drive, Suite 275 Little Rock

ROBERT W. GEORGE Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers

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ANTITRUST LAW PETER G. KUMPE Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock APPELLATE PRACTICE JOHN T. ADAMS Keech Law Firm 501-221-3200 2011 South Broadway Street Little Rock OVERTON S. ANDERSON Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2400 Little Rock JOSHUA C, ASHLEY Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock JESS L. ASKEW III Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

N. M. NORTON Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

M. STEPHEN BINGHAM Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock

DERRICK W. SMITH Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

MISTY BORKOWSKI Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock

JEFFREY H. THOMAS Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

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CONSTANCE G. CLARK Davis, Butt, Taylor & Clark 479-521-7600 19 East Mountain Street Fayetteville TIMOTHY CULLEN Cullen & Company 501-370-4800 P.O. Box 3255 Little Rock JOSEPH R. FALASCO Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock G. SPENCE FRICKE Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400 Little Rock PATRICK J. GOSS Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock JULIE DEWOODY GREATHOUSE PPGMR Law 501-603-9000 101 River Bluff Drive, Suite A Little Rock MICHAEL B. HEISTER Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock CHRISTOPHER J. HELLER Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

PHILIP E. KAPLAN Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock

ANDREW M. TAYLOR Taylor & Taylor Law Firm 501-246-8004 12921 Cantrell Road, Suite 205 Little Rock

GARLAND W. BINNS, JR. Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3700 Little Rock

DAVID A. LITTLETON Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2400 Little Rock

TASHA TAYLOR Taylor & Taylor Law Firm 501-246-8004 12921 Cantrell Road, Suite 205 Little Rock

GRANT COX Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

GARY D. MARTS, JR. Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

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RANDAL B. FRAZIER Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

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JOHN J. MIKESCH Taylor Law Partners 479-316-6300 303 East Millsap Road Fayetteville FRANK B. NEWELL Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400 Little Rock BRIAN PIPKIN Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock TROY A. PRICE Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock ROGER D. ROWE Lax, Vaughan, Fortson, Rowe & Threet 501-376-6565 Cantrell West Building, Suite 201 Little Rock BEVERLY A. ROWLETT Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock ROBERT S. SHAFER Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

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TURNER “Injustice anywhere & ASSOCIATES, P.A. is a

threat to justice everywhere.”

ATTORNEYS AT LAW

– Martin Luther King

Tab Turner was included in the 2021 Edition of The Best Lawyers in

America© for Product Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs, and Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs.

He was also named the Best Lawyers® 2021 Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs “Lawyer of the Year” in Little Rock.

TURNER & ASSOCIATES, P.A. ATTORNEYS AT LAW

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tab@tturner.com • 501-791-2277

The lawyers and staff of WDTC would like to congratulate the lawyers from WDTC recognized in the 27th Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©.

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DAVID A. SMITH Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock COLLABORATIVE LAW: FAMILY LAW GARY B. ROGERS Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3700 Little Rock COMMERCIAL FINANCE LAW FRED M. PERKINS III Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock SCOTT SCHALLHORN Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock COMMERCIAL LITIGATION JESS L. ASKEW III Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock RUSSELL C. ATCHLEY Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 234 East Millsap Road, Suite 200 Fayetteville BETSY BAKER Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock JOHN KEELING BAKER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock WOODSON W. BASSETT III Bassett Law Firm 479-521-9996 221 North College Avenue Fayetteville R.T. BEARD III Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

ERIC BERGER Wright Lindsey Jennings 479-986-0888 3333 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 510 Rogers H. DAVID BLAIR Blair & Stroud 870-793-8350 500 East Main Street, Suite 201 Batesville DALE BROWN Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 234 East Millsap Road, Suite 200 Fayetteville JASON J. CAMPBELL Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2400 Little Rock CASEY CASTLEBERRY Murphy Thompson Arnold Skinner & Castleberry 888-902-5580 555 East Main Street, Suite 200 Batesville BRANDON B. CATE Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 479-444-5200 4100 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 310 Springdale VINCENT CHADICK Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 479-444-5200 4100 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 310 Springdale E.B. CHILES IV Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock CONSTANCE G. CLARK Davis, Butt, Taylor & Clark 479-521-7600 19 East Mountain Street Fayetteville SUZANNE G. CLARK Clark Law Firm 479-856-6380 244 West Dickson Street, Suite 201 Fayetteville

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STEPHEN N. JOINER Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock JAMIE H. JONES Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock M. SAMUEL JONES III Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock ROBERT L. JONES III Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville JIM L. JULIAN Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400 Little Rock PHILIP E. KAPLAN Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock SARAH KEITHBOLDEN Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock DONALD B. KENDALL Kendall Law Firm 479-464-9828 3706 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 201 Rogers PETER G. KUMPE Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock STEPHEN R. LANCASTER Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

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TODD P. LEWIS Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville

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DAVID M. POWELL Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock JOSEPH W. PRICE II Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock LYN P. PRUITT Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock STEVEN W. QUATTLEBAUM Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

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BRETT D. WATSON Brett D. Watson, Attorney at Law 501-281-2468 P.O. Box 707 Searcy

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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE LAW H. WATT GREGORY III Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

CONGRATULATIONS JOHN WESLEY HALL! John Wesley Hall was included in the 2005-21 Editions of The Best Lawyers in America© for his work in Criminal Defense: General Practice and Criminal Defense: White-Collar.

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CORPORATE COMPLIANCE LAW H. WATT GREGORY III Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

There’s no substitute for experience, and our firm has it.

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He was also named the Best Lawyers® 2018 & 2020 Criminal Defense: White-Collar and “Lawyer of the Year” in Little Rock.

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THE PERSONAL INJURY

MADE HEADLINES THE JURY AWARD

MADE HISTORY

Robert M. Cearley Jr. was included in the 2021 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America© for Personal Injury Litigation — Plaintiffs, and Product Liability Litigation — Plaintiffs.

Victories are always important. Justice even more valued.

But of all the victories, all the winning verdicts, and all the accolades in the history of Arkansas litigation, this is the Highest Personal Injury Award Ever Recorded in the State.

And it is one of the highest jury awards in the nation, as noted by Big Money Wins which is published by The National Law Journal.

The Plaintiff’s Attorney: Robert M. Cearley Jr. • Over 50 years as a trial lawyer • Named a Super Lawyer for the 15th year by Thomson-Reuters • Arkansas Super Lawyers Top 50 List • Included in Martindale-Hubbell’s Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers

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FAMILY LAW BARRY E. COPLIN Coplin & Hardy 501-707-0300 One Union Plaza Little Rock

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BETH ECHOLS Gill Ragon Owen 501-376-3800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3800 Little Rock STEPHEN C. ENGSTROM Stephen Engstrom Law Office 501-375-6453 200 River Market Avenue, Suite 600 Little Rock ADRIENNE GRIFFIS Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3700 Little Rock

NOYL HOUSTON Houston Law Firm 870-935-3730 923 Union Street Jonesboro DAVID W. KAMPS David W. Kamps 501-708-2911 The Centre Place Building, Sixth Floor Little Rock JUDSON C. KIDD Dodds, Kidd, Ryan & Rowan 501-386-9508 313 West Second Street Little Rock MICHAEL KNOLLMEYER Knollmeyer Law Office 501-985-1760 2525 John Harden Drive Jacksonville ANGELA MANN Mann & Kemp 501-299-9328 221 West Second Street, Suite 408 Little Rock

JACK WAGONER III Wagoner Law Firm (501) 663-5225 1320 Brookwood, Suite A Little Rock FAMILY LAW MEDIATION DAVID R. MATTHEWS Matthews, Campbell, Rhoads, McClure & Thompson 479-282-2586 119 South Second Street Rogers FINANCIAL SERVICES REGULATION LAW H. WATT GREGORY III Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

FIRST AMENDMENT LAW JESS L. ASKEW III Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

HEALTH CARE LAW ELIZABETH ANDREOLI Andreoli Law 501-690-5069 72 Pine Manor Drive, Suite 190 Little Rock CHARLES B. CLIETT, JR. Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

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BRYAN J. REIS Legacy Law Group 501-525-3130 135 Section Line Road, Third Floor Hot Springs

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GARY B. ROGERS Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3700 Little Rock

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GOVERNMENT RELATIONS PRACTICE ERIKA R. GEE Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock MORRIL HARRIMAN JR. Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

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FRANCHISE LAW DAVID M. POWELL Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

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CONSTANCE G. CLARK Davis, Butt, Taylor & Clark 479-521-7600 19 East Mountain Street Fayetteville CHARLES T. COLEMAN Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock JAMES F. DOWDEN James F. Dowden 501-324-4700 212 Center Street, 10th Floor Little Rock ALLISON R. GLADDEN Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400 Little Rock DAVID A. GRACE Hardin & Grace 501-378-7900 500 Main Street, Suite A North Little Rock KEVIN P. KEECH Keech Law Firm 501-221-3200 2011 South Broadway Street North Little Rock HARRY A. LIGHT Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock LANCE R. MILLER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock MARSHALL S. NEY Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers STAN D. SMITH Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

GEOFFREY B. TREECE Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock LITIGATION - CONSTRUCTION RUSSELL C. ATCHLEY Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 234 East Millsap Road, Suite 200 Fayetteville M. STEPHEN BINGHAM Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock H. DAVID BLAIR Blair & Stroud 870-793-8350 500 East Main Street, Suite 201 Batesville JASON J. CAMPBELL Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2400 Little Rock SUZANNE G. CLARK Clark Law Firm 479-856-6380 244 West Dickson Street, Suite 201 Fayetteville JUNIUS BRACY CROSS, JR. JB Cross Construction Law 501-374-2512 308 East Eighth Street Little Rock RICHARD T. DONOVAN Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock JACK EAST III Jack East III 501-372-3278 2725 Cantrell Road, Suite 202 Little Rock DAVID A. GRACE Hardin & Grace 501-378-7900 500 Main Street, Suite A North Little Rock

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LITIGATION - ERISA BRANDON B. CATE Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 479-444-5200 4100 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 310 Springdale E.B. CHILES IV Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock LITIGATION - FIRST AMENDMENT PHILIP E. KAPLAN Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock JAMES G. LINGLE Lingle Law Firm 479-636-7899 110 South Dixieland Road Rogers TROY A. PRICE Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock JOHN E. TULL III Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock LITIGATION - HEALTH CARE PHILIP E. KAPLAN Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock AMBER WILSON BAGLEY Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock LITIGATION - INSURANCE M. STEPHEN BINGHAM Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock

MARK BREEDING Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock

EDWARD T. OGLESBY The Brad Hendricks Law Firm 501-550-4090 500 Pleasant Valley Drive, Building C Little Rock

J. COTTEN CUNNINGHAM Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400 Little Rock

DAVID M. POWELL Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

BARRETT DEACON Deacon Law Firm 479-582-5353 100 West Center Street, Suite 200 Fayetteville MARK W. DOSSETT Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 234 East Millsap Road, Suite 200 Fayetteville WILLIAM MELL GRIFFIN III Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

JEFFREY W. PURYEAR Womack Phelps Puryear Mayfield & McNeil 870-932-0900 Century Center Jonesboro BEVERLY A. ROWLETT Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock

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DONALD B. KENDALL Kendall Law Firm 479-464-9828 3706 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 201 Rogers

SCOTT TIDWELL Matthews, Campbell, Rhoads, McClure & Thompson 479-282-2586 119 South Second Street Rogers

JOHN E. MOORE Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock BRUCE E. MUNSON Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock

MARY CAROLE YOUNG Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock LITIGATION - INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MARK MURPHEY HENRY Mark Murphey Henry 479-368-0555 P.O. Box 4800 Fayetteville HERMANN IVESTER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

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MARSHALL S. NEY Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers N. M. NORTON Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock LITIGATION - LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT ALFRED F. ANGULO, JR. Robertson, Beasley, Shipley & Robinson 479-782-8813 315 North Seventh Street Fort Smith TIM BOE Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock JOHN L. BURNETT Lavey and Burnett 501-376-2269 904 West Second Street Little Rock DANIEL R. CARTER James & Carter 866-716-3242 500 Broadway, Suite 400 Little Rock BRANDON B. CATE Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 479-444-5200 4100 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 310 Springdale E.B. CHILES IV Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock SUZANNE G. CLARK Clark Law Firm 479-856-6380 244 West Dickson Street, Suite 201 Fayetteville JOHN D. COULTER McMath Woods 501-213-3556 711 West Third Street Little Rock

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J. BRUCE CROSS Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock JOHN D. DAVIS Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock MISSY MCJUNKINS DUKE Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock JAMES M. GARY Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock KATHLYN GRAVES Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock CHRISTOPHER J. HELLER Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock DANIEL L. HERRINGTON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock DENISE REID HOGGARD Rainwater, Holt & Sexton 501-868-2500 801 Technology Drive Little Rock WILLIAM STUART JACKSON Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

MICHELLE M. KAEMMERLING Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock PHILIP E. KAPLAN Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock SUSAN K. KENDALL Kendall Law Firm 479-464-9828 3706 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 201 Rogers CYNTHIA KOLB Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock EVA C. MADISON Littler Mendelson 479-582-6100 The Fulbright Building, Suite 204 Fayetteville DAVID P. MARTIN Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock ABTIN MEHDIZADEGAN Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock MICHAEL S. MOORE Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock ELIZABETH ROBBEN MURRAY Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock MARSHALL S. NEY Friday Eldredge & Clark 479-695-2011 3350 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 301 Rogers

GREGORY NORTHEN Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock JANET L. PULLIAM Pulliam & Muskheli 501-436-0010 2209 Cantrell Road Little Rock SPENCER F. ROBINSON Ramsay, Bridgforth, Robinson & Raley 870-535-9000 Simmons First National Bank Building, 11th Floor Pine Bluff BENJAMIN H. SHIPLEY III Robertson, Beasley, Shipley & Robinson 479-782-8813 315 North Seventh Street Fort Smith FREDERICK S. URSERY Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock PAUL D. WADDELL Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro CAROLYN B. WITHERSPOON Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock H. WAYNE YOUNG Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock LITIGATION - MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS SUZANNE G. CLARK Clark Law Firm 479-856-6380 244 West Dickson Street, Suite 201 Fayetteville

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LITIGATION - MUNICIPAL MISSY MCJUNKINS DUKE Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock LITIGATION - PATENT MARK MURPHEY HENRY Mark Murphey Henry 479-368-0555 P.O. Box 4800 Fayetteville LITIGATION - REAL ESTATE JOHN KEELING BAKER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock CONSTANCE G. CLARK Davis, Butt, Taylor & Clark 479-521-7600 19 East Mountain Street Fayetteville SUZANNE G. CLARK Clark Law Firm 479-856-6380 244 West Dickson Street, Suite 201 Fayetteville

L. KYLE HEFFLEY Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650 4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers M. SAMUEL JONES III Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock STEPHEN R. LANCASTER Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock EDWIN N. MCCLURE Matthews, Campbell, Rhoads, McClure & Thompson 479-282-2586 119 South Second Street Rogers DAVID B. VANDERGRIFF Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

THOMAS A. DAILY Daily & Woods 479-782-0361 58 South Sixth Street Fort Smith

LITIGATION - SECURITIES KEVIN A. CRASS Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

DON A. EILBOTT Don A. Eilbott 501-225-2885 Redding Building, Suite 112 Little Rock

RICHARD T. DONOVAN Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock

JOSEPH R. FALASCO Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

M. SAMUEL JONES III Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

TIMOTHY W. GROOMS Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

KERRI E. KOBBEMAN Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville

LITIGATION - TRUSTS AND ESTATES WILLIAM JACKSON BUTT II Davis, Butt, Taylor & Clark 479-521-7600 19 East Mountain Street Fayetteville SUZANNE G. CLARK Clark Law Firm 479-856-6380 244 West Dickson Street, Suite 201 Fayetteville ALLISON J. CORNWELL Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock ADAM H. CROW Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock RITA REED HARRIS Rita Reed Harris 870-633-9900 208 North Izard Street Forrest City RICHARD F. HATFIELD Richard F. Hatfield 501-374-9010 401 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 502 Little Rock ROBERT S. JONES Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro STEPHEN R. LANCASTER Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock SARAH COTTON PATTERSON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock LITIGATION AND CONTROVERSY - TAX JOHN KEELING BAKER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

MATTHEW BOCH Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3700 Little Rock PRICE C. GARDNER Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock ANTON JANIK JR. Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

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MICHAEL O. PARKER Dover Dixon Horne 501-375-9151 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3700 Little Rock CHRISTOPHER PLUMLEE RMP 479-443-2705 5519 Hackett Road, Suite 300 Springdale MASS TORT LITIGATION / CLASS ACTIONS - DEFENDANTS SHERRY P. BARTLEY Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock WOODSON W. BASSETT III Bassett Law Firm 479-521-9996 221 North College Avenue Fayetteville

Trust, Integrity, Experience www.taylorlawpartners.com 479-316-6300 | taylorlawpartners.com 303 E. Millsap Road 303 E. Millsap Rd., Fayetteville, AR 72703 P.O. Box 8310 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72703 Telephone: (479) 443-5222

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E.B. CHILES IV Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

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JOHN R. ELROD Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville MEGAN HARGRAVES Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

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SCOTT A. IRBY Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock EDWIN L. LOWTHER, JR. Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock GARY D. MARTS, JR. Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock JOHN E. MOORE Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock LYN P. PRUITT Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock STEVEN W. QUATTLEBAUM Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock GORDON S. RATHER, JR. Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock JOHN E. TULL III Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock KIMBERLY D. YOUNG Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

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MASS TORT LITIGATION / CLASS ACTIONS - PLAINTIFFS ANTHONY C. JOHNSON Johnson Firm 501-777-7777 2226 Cottondale Lane, Suite 210 Little Rock THOMAS MARS Mars Law Firm 479-381-5535 5500 Pinnacle Point Drive, Suite 202 Rogers BRIAN D. REDDICK Reddick Moss 877-907-7790 One Information Way, Suite 105 Little Rock TAB TURNER Turner & Associates 501-791-2277 4705 Somers Avenue, Suite 100 North Little Rock MEDIA LAW JESS L. ASKEW III Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock JAMES M. SIMPSON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock JOHN E. TULL III Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock MEDIATION FRANK S. HAMLIN Hamlin Dispute Resolution 501-850-8888 1101 West Second Street Little Rock ROBERT E. HORNBERGER Robert E. Hornberger Attorney/Mediator 479-459-7878 P.O. Box 8064 Fort Smith

BRUCE E. MUNSON Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock

KEN COOK Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

MARIAM T. HOPKINS Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2400 Little Rock

EMILY M. RUNYON Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock

JOHN DEWEY WATSON ADR 501-376-2121 1600 Dorado Beach Drive Little Rock

WALTER B. COX Cox, Cox & Estes 479-251-7900 3900 North Front Street, Suite 203 Fayetteville

BENJAMIN JACKSON Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

LAURA H. SMITH Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

G. ALAN WOOTEN Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville MEDICAL MALPRACTICE LAW - DEFENDANTS OVERTON S. ANDERSON Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2400 Little Rock MICHELLE ATOR Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock DONALD H. BACON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock TIMOTHY L. BOONE Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock JASON J. CAMPBELL Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2400 Little Rock KELLY CARITHERS Carithers Johnson Devenport 479-332-4905 3900 Front Street, Suite 204 Fayetteville

MARK W. DOSSETT Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 234 East Millsap Road, Suite 200 Fayetteville JAMES R. ESTES Cox, Cox & Estes 479-251-7900 3900 North Front Street, Suite 203 Fayetteville WALKER DALE GARRETT Bassett Law Firm 479-521-9996 221 North College Avenue Fayetteville DAVID P. GLOVER Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock WILLIAM MELL GRIFFIN III Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock JEFFREY W. HATFIELD Hardin, Jesson & Terry 501-850-0015 1401 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 190 Little Rock REBECCA D. HATTABAUGH Ledbetter Cogbill Arnold & Harrison 479-782-7294 622 Parker Avenue Fort Smith L. KYLE HEFFLEY Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 479-464-5650 4206 South J.B. Hunt Drive, Suite 200 Rogers

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M. SAMUEL JONES III Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock ROBERT J. LAMBERT, JR. Roy, Lambert, Lovelace, Bingaman & Wood 479-756-8510 2706 South Dividend Drive Springdale EDWIN L. LOWTHER, JR. Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock PAUL D. MCNEILL RMP 870-394-5200 710 Windover Road, Suite B Jonesboro BRUCE E. MUNSON Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock SCOTT D. PROVENCHER Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock BRADLEY S. RUNYON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock

PAUL D. WADDELL Waddell, Cole & Jones 870-931-1700 310 East Street, Suite A Jonesboro MARK D. WANKUM Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2400 Little Rock MEDICAL MALPRACTICE LAW - PLAINTIFFS H. DAVID BLAIR Blair & Stroud 870-793-8350 500 East Main Street, Suite 201 Batesville RANDY HALL Hall & Taylor Law Partners 501-353-8278 415 North McKinley, Suite 1000 Little Rock BOBBY R. MCDANIEL McDaniel Law Firm 870-336-4747 400 South Main Street Jonesboro GEORGE R. WISE, JR. The Brad Hendricks Law Firm 501-550-4090 500 Pleasant Valley Drive, Building C Little Rock MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS LAW PAUL B. BENHAM III Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock C. DOUGLAS BUFORD, JR. Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock

BRYAN W. DUKE Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock WALTER M. EBEL III Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock RAYBURN W. GREEN Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 234 East Millsap Road, Suite 200 Fayetteville H. WATT GREGORY III Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock JOSEPH G. NICHOLS Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock GREG S. SCHARLAU Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville DAVID A. SMITH Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock JAMES W. SMITH Smith Hurst 479-301-2444 Hunt Tower, Suite 900 Rogers ROBERT T. SMITH Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock THOMAS C. VAUGHAN, JR. Lax, Vaughan, Fortson, Rowe & Threet 501-376-6565 Cantrell West Building, Suite 201 Little Rock

MORTGAGE BANKING FORECLOSURE LAW CHRISTOPHER MCNULTY Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock JENNIFER WILSON-HARVEY Wilson & Associates 501-216-9388 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1400 Little Rock MUNICIPAL LAW RYAN A. BOWMAN Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock W. TAYLOR MARSHALL Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock D. MICHAEL MOYERS Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock J. SHEPHERD RUSSELL III Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock JOHN WILLIAM SPIVEY III Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock GORDON M. WILBOURN Kutak Rock 501-975-3000 124 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock AMBER WILSON BAGLEY Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock

CAROLYN B. WITHERSPOON Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus 501-371-9999 500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200 Little Rock NONPROFIT / CHARITIES LAW ADAM H. CROW Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock BYRON M. EISEMAN, JR. Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock WILSON JONES Rose Law Firm 501-375-9131 120 East Fourth Street Little Rock SARAH COTTON PATTERSON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock K. COLEMAN WESTBROOK, JR. Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock OIL AND GAS LAW CAROLYN J. CLEGG Keith, Clegg & Epley 870-234-3550 McAlester Building, Suite 205 Magnolia THOMAS A. DAILY Daily & Woods 479-782-0361 58 South Sixth Street Fort Smith ROBERT M. HONEA Hardin, Jesson & Terry 479-452-2200 5000 Rogers Avenue, Suite 500 Fort Smith G. ALAN PERKINS PPGMR Law 501-603-9000 101 River Bluff Drive, Suite A Little Rock

JAMES D. RANKIN III PPGMR Law 501-603-9000 101 River Bluff Drive, Suite A Little Rock PATENT LAW STEPHEN D. CARVER Patent Law Offices of Stephen D. Carver 501-224-1500 Pleasant Valley Corporate Center, Suite 800 Little Rock J. CHARLES DOUGHERTY Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock MARK MURPHEY HENRY Mark Murphey Henry 479-368-0555 P.O. Box 4800 Fayetteville MEREDITH K. LOWRY Wright Lindsey Jennings 479-986-0888 3333 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Suite 510 Rogers PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION - DEFENDANTS ALFRED F. ANGULO, JR. Robertson, Beasley, Shipley & Robinson 479-782-8813 315 North Seventh Street Fort Smith MICHELLE ATOR Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock DONALD H. BACON Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock JAMES C. BAKER, JR. Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock MICHAEL D. BARNES Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock

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SHERRY P. BARTLEY Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock R.T. BEARD III Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard 501-688-8800 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1800 Little Rock TIMOTHY L. BOONE Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock MARK BREEDING Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock CLARK S. BREWSTER Clark S. Brewster 501-315-6000 3417 Estate Drive Benton BILL W. BRISTOW Bristow & Richardson 870-935-9000 216 East Washington Avenue Jonesboro DALE BROWN Kutak Rock 479-973-4200 234 East Millsap Road, Suite 200 Fayetteville MICHELLE L. BROWNING Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock KELLY CARITHERS Carithers Johnson Devenport 479-332-4905 3900 Front Street, Suite 204 Fayetteville E.B. CHILES IV Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull 501-379-1700 111 Center Street, Suite 1900 Little Rock

WALTER B. COX Cox, Cox & Estes 479-251-7900 3900 North Front Street, Suite 203 Fayetteville KEVIN A. CRASS Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock J. COTTEN CUNNINGHAM Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400 Little Rock DEBORAH S. DENTON Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2400 Little Rock TONY A. DICARLO III Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2400 Little Rock DAVID M. DONOVAN Watts, Donovan, Tilley & Carson 501-372-1406 2120 Riverfront Drive, Suite 275 Little Rock BAXTER DRENNON Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock WILLIAM H. EDWARDS, JR. Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400 Little Rock MICHAEL J. EMERSON Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400 Little Rock JAMES R. ESTES Cox, Cox & Estes 479-251-7900 3900 North Front Street, Suite 203 Fayetteville

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G. SPENCE FRICKE Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400 Little Rock

ROBERT L. JONES III Conner & Winters 479-582-5711 4375 North Vantage Drive, Suite 405 Fayetteville

WALKER DALE GARRETT Bassett Law Firm 479-521-9996 221 North College Avenue Fayetteville

JIM L. JULIAN Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400 Little Rock

SARAH GREENWOOD Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone 501-374-6535 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1900 Little Rock WILLIAM MELL GRIFFIN III Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock JEFFREY W. HATFIELD Hardin, Jesson & Terry 501-850-0015 1401 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 190 Little Rock ROBERT L. HENRY III Barber Law Firm 501-372-6175 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 3400 Little Rock MARIAM T. HOPKINS Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins 501-372-1887 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2400 Little Rock D. MICHAEL HUCKABAY, JR. Huckabay Law Firm 501-375-5600 Metropolitan Tower, Suite 1575 Little Rock SCOTT A. IRBY Wright Lindsey Jennings 501-371-0808 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300 Little Rock JAMIE H. JONES Friday Eldredge & Clark 501 376 2011 400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2000 Little Rock 82 NOVEMBER 2020

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47 ‘‘Let me pay for that’’

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LULAC AWARDS SCHOLARSHIPS TO 43 LATINO STUDENTS The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Council 750-Little Rock held its annual awards gala to celebrate the 2020 scholarship recipients. The virtual Oct. 9 event honored 43 students from LULAC councils 750, 771, 772 and 773 in Central Arkansas and awarded scholarships totaling $263,000 in cash and tuition credits.

Several central Arkansas universities matched LULAC scholarship awards and/or offered full scholarships to students who passed the rigorous LULAC selection process.

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NOVEMBER, MON AMOUR

t is mid-October where we are and The Observer finds ourself again at one of these moments — plentiful in the last few years — when you, Dear Reader, know something that we don’t.

Where we are, The Observer is 19 days from the most important election of our long and complicated life. Where you are, meanwhile, there’s a good chance that all has been resolved or is at least on its way to resolution, whether that means a massive landslide for order and decency, a confusing debacle in which goggleeyed poll workers are left to parse every hanging chad and “is this pen working?” ballot scribble (been there!), or — God forbid — yet another Electoral College squeaker that reinstalls this golem, this creature, this damp sack of grievances in the shape of a man with a pisscolored wig on top, for another four years in the presidency and maybe another four years after that. The Observer has seen nine U.S. presidents in our time, each of varying honesty, honor and decency — excluding the last, of course, who appears to have not a shred of any of the above — so we can assure you that even the worst presidencies do, in fact, end. So if you’re in the future where a large red clock on the wall of the Oval Office is now counting down the minutes and seconds until this nightmare is over in January: Congratulations! We knew you could do it! If not ... well, let’s not force Your Old Pal to think about that too much right now, shall we? For ol’ times sake?

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It’s the oldest trick in the book, as old as a creaking snake oil salesman’s wagon, designed to keep you tuned in and interested while “Meet the Press,” CNN and Fox News intermittently sell you laundry soap guaranteed to help you fight the scourge of ring around the collar and medications you should ask your doctor about even though side effects may include vomiting, 98 NOVEMBER 2020

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bleeding from the ears and a compulsion to vote for a mentally ill former game show host. In this case, however, The Observer fears we may be actually talking about The Most Important Presidential Election of Our Lives, the one that will matter most to the way it all turns out, by which we mean the story of the life of every person reading this, including Yours Truly, and the life of every American yet to be born. It is for sure The Most Important Presidential Election of Our Lives since the last presidential election, when this country seriously screwed the pooch.

The Observer believes that night will someday be used by historians to demarcate the moment when something seriously broke or was set on the path to repair, like Anno Domini.

Elections have consequences, sure. But do they have to be so dire? A monster pandemic on the loose, 210,000 dead and counting, a nation on the verge of tearing itself apart, a Supreme Court straight outta “The Handmaid’s Tale,” an economy that crashed so hard it augered into the earth deep enough to strike lava, and on and on? These are memorable times, brothers and sisters, and not for the reasons you usually want to remember things. But, as the last four years have shown us: It can always get worse.

Where you are, maybe we have already started to close the door on this sad era, turning back toward something like normalcy and sanity, back toward something approaching a forward gear after four years when American progress has seemed to roll back down the slope like the great boulder of Sisyphus, not propelled by gravity this time but by the eager hands of those hungry for The Good Ol’ Days that were, in fact, only good for rich white men. Where The Observer is, though, the door is still standing open, the lock shattered apart, all the vile things pouring out, as they have been for the past four ceaseless and relentless goddamn years.

The Observer is rambling now. Forgive us. To tell you the truth, we are nearly petrified with

fear, one of the millions of people in this country with a light case of PTSD dating from November 2016, when America’s promise seemed to sit down next to a tree somewhere and go to sleep like Rip Van Winkle, slumbering but hopefully not dead, as the vines crept over its sleeping form. Did the sleeper begin to stir on Nov. 3, Dear Reader? Did America’s flatline begin again to beep, almost as if by a miracle, stronger with every blip? Or is it more of the same? How we wish this could be a two-way conversation!

How we wish we could be where you are now, reading this, things on their way to being sure again maybe, or more confused than ever. At least then we could plan. But we digress.

The Observer, that old and romantic fool, still believes in America. This country broke our heart in the fall of 2016. We’d written another Observer like this one before Election Night then, Your Correspondent peering into the dim glass of the future to try to see what shapes, dark or light, swam in its depths on the other side of Halloween. We tried to prepare, but didn’t do so hot. We will say, however, that it took until maybe this summer for the Trump presidency to finally get worse than we expected it might be. At last, with the unmourned deaths of more Americans than our last five wars combined, Donald Trump exceeded The Observer’s terrible expectations for him and the darkness those who voted for him unleashed on our land.

Does The Observer dare to hope here in midOctober, the season of ghosts? Do we dare to take the long, determined lines of early voters as a sign, the way the Greeks interpreted the movement of birds to discover the will of the gods? Do we dare to believe in America’s willingness to turn its back on monstrousness again? Will the sleeper stir? Or are we the hollow and stubborn frauds our enemies always suspected us to be?

If you see The Observer in November, you will tell us how it all turned out, won’t you, Dear Reader? Please say you will.

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