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'Alan Leveritt'

U.S. Supreme Court won't hear challenge to loyalty-to-Israel requirement for Arkansas contractors

The Arkansas Times challenged the 2017 state law, contending that requiring anyone who does business with the state to take a side (by not taking a side) in the Israeli-Palestine conflict was unconstitutional compelled speech. That's still the case, even if the Supreme Court won't say so.
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Bee time

I wound up keeping bees by accident 10 or 15 years ago. For two seasons I’d had beautiful tomato vines but no tomatoes, which I ascribed to a lack of pollinators. I didn’t know back then that tomatoes are self-pollinating and the lack of fruit was due to late planting and the hot night time temperatures which caused the flowers to fall off. But by that time I had two hives, about 60,000 bees, a bee veil, hive tool and a smoker. I was committed, as they say.
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Hot Springs Documentary Film Fest returns with tons of in-person screenings at the Arlington

As ever, the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival is a week-plus of films you’ll think about for years, plus parties you hopefully won’t regret the next morning. Highlights of 2022 include Mark Fletcher’s (“My Octopus Teacher”) undersea conservation tale, “Patrick and the Whale”; Kathlyn Horan’s “The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile”; Shaunak Sen’s award-winning tale of a bird hospital in polluted New Delhi, “All That Breathes”; Violet Columbus and Ben Klein’s portrait of Tiananmen Square massacre documentarian Christine Choy, “The Exiles”; and loads more, much of it with connections to the American South.

The family vegetable

Should my family ever have a coat of arms, it will be two long, flat Kentucky Wonder pole beans crossed like sabers above a Carbon tomato, surrounded by a victory wreath of muscadine vines. Beneath will be the family motto, tardus wisi. That’s “slow simmer” if you don’t speak Latin. 
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The best summer lunch

On Saturday, I made my semi-weekly stop at the Hillcrest Farmers Market, and several days later, I had the best lunch of the summer. Then I had it again the next day. And you can, too!

Arkansas researchers delve into the science on medical marijuana

Laws and culture combined in the past to prevent federal studies about medical marijuana. But now, with those barriers lifted, researchers with the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement can dig in using a federal $1.3 million grant.
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Argenta Acoustic, Potluck and Poison Ivy, Jazz at the Joint and ACANSA Arts Festival return in March

The trio of performance series at The Joint in North Little Rock's Argenta District is back in March, with appearances from Tom Guarna, Pierre Bensusan and Arkansas Times publisher Alan Leveritt.

Watch Arkansas Times publisher talk about Israel anti-boycott law on CNN

Alan Leveritt, publisher of the Arkansas Times, continued his national media tour earlier this week with a national TV interview explaining why we refuse to comply with a state law that punishes businesses that refuse to sign a pledge promising not to boycott Israel. He appeared on CNN with Christiane Amanpour and Julia Bacha, director of the new documentary "Boycott," which follows our legal battle over the anti-boycott law along with several other cases.
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Arkansas Times publisher explains our stance on Israel boycott law to readers of New York Times

The Arkansas Times gets a big soapbox for its stand against a state law limiting our free speech.
Arkansas Times Publisher Alan Leveritt.

Arkansas Times publisher defends the 1st Amendment

Alan Leveritt, publisher of the Arkansas Times, writes for the ACLU website on why the newspaper has sued to contest an Arkansas law meant to discourage or prevent state business with people who won't sign a pledge not to boycott Israel.
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CALS podcast features Times publisher Alan Leveritt

The latest Central Arkansas Library System podcast is an interview with Gravel Ridge-area farmer Alan Leveritt, who also works part-time as publisher of the Arkansas Times.

Top 5 Food and Farm blog posts

Your Friday open line, farm talk edition.
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