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Ask the Times: Where's the center of Arkansas?

Q: Where is the center of Arkansas? A: It's complicated.
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Ask the Times: What's up with Western Hills Park?

Now that the season is over, I can tell you a little secret, knowing that you will probably have forgotten it by this time next year: the best place to get blackberries in Little Rock is Western Hills Park. You just have to be willing to do the picking.
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Ask the Times: What is that weird structure by the Terry Lock and Dam?

It is not a sombrero.

Ask the Times: Can I laminate my medical marijuana card?

Question: On my first trip to a medical marijuana dispensary, an employee there encouraged me to laminate my medical marijuana card because the dispensary had already seen cards with the identifying numbers rubbed off, rendering them useless. But when I called a Health Department hotline, the person I spoke with told me I couldn't laminate. What gives?
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What happened to Heartbeat 106.7?

My favorite radio station died this week, and I didn't even notice. At 5 p.m. Wednesday, Heartbeat 106.7 FM, "The Beat of the City," switched over to a New Country format, and was re-branded as 106.7 The Ride. Anyone expecting The Isley Brothers or Bill Withers or  Michael Jackson or The SOS Band will have to settle for Luke Bryan. And the format shift occurred so suddenly — with only the above message, perverse-seeming in its simplicity ("WE HAVE DECIDED TO SWITCH OUR FORMAT TO NEW COUNTRY. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING."), as explanation. A Facebook group has already been created so that old fans can vent their outrage. To find out what happened, I called 106.7's owners, Signal Media, and spoke to Mike Kennedy, program director for the new station (and for The Point 94.1).

Has the Ron Robinson Theater stopped showing films?

Few cultural institutions open with the kind of goodwill and high expectations that the Ron Robinson Theater had leading into its official unveiling in January. Touted as the state’s new premiere cinema venue, with 315 seats, a state-of-the-art digital projector and Dolby 7.1 surround sound – not to mention its promising affiliation with the Little Rock Film Festival – the theater looked like nothing less than the future of local film culture.
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Why can't you buy Yuengling, or all sorts of other beers, in Arkansas?

Alcohol is one of the most heavily regulated commodities sold in the United States, with each state setting up its own regulatory system. In some states — known as alcoholic beverage control states — the state itself is the only wholesaler. Arkansas instead uses a semi-privatized "three-tier system." The impetus for a new beer coming into the state could come from any of the tiers. A brewery might decide it wants to enter the market and try to find a wholesaler to distribute the beer, either statewide or in a given area. But sometimes it doesn't make economic sense for a brewery.

Wouldn't it be a good idea if pedestrians could get extra time to cross busy streets before cars traveling their direction begin to make their right or left turns?

Yes it would, and the city of Little Rock has installed new firmware in its traffic control boxes at eight intersections to make that happen.
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Will Interstate 40, between North Little Rock and West Memphis, be under construction forever?

Pretty much. According to the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department’s Danny Straessle, that entire stretch of interstate is due for rehabilitation or replacement in projects scheduled to run through 2027.

House Republicans want food stamp cuts that would affect estimated 43,000 Arkansans

I mentioned yesterday the study that showed Arkansas lead the nation in the percent of people in hunger.
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Why has Kali Hardig survived?

If the “brain-eating parasite” that has made the Benton child so sick is common, why don’t more people have it?

Work on River Trail gap starts Monday

A reader asks when the city Parks Department will fix the River Trail washout behind The Cliffs condominiums.
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