As Little Rock declares a public health emergency due to violent crime, is the solution more police and less probation or do the times demand different remedies? Find out tonight on “Arkansas Week,” where we’ll also discuss the making of a multibillion dollar state budget and celebrate the career of an extraordinary educator.City of Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott, Jr.; Little Rock Pastor’s Conference Community Advisor Rev. Billy Burris; Reaching Our Children and Neighborhoods (ROCAN), Inc., Founder and Director Leifel Jackson; Sen. Jim Hendren (I); Rep. Vivian Flowers (D) and Rep. Jeff Wardlaw (R) join us at 7:30 p.m.
Arkansas’s Capital City has declared a public emergency, but it’s not about COVID-19 — it’s crime.
Join us as we discuss potential solutions, plus the state’s billion-dollar budget and an educator’s priceless dedication this Friday, Feb. 11, at 7:30 p.m. on “Arkansas Week.”
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"Arkansas Week" highlights a dedicated, distinguished group of Arkansas journalists and political scientists who discuss issues in the news. "Arkansas Week" is hosted by Steve Barnes. Barnes has been on the air in the Natural State since 1968 when he started as a copy boy on weekends at KTHV-TV Channel 11 in Little Rock. His adept hand at leading journalists and others in a discussion of current events complements his encyclopedic knowledge of the state, its players and its past. Barnes has not only become one of the most recognizable and respected people within Arkansas, but has connected with a national audience through work published in the New York Times, fed to the Reuters news service and shown on networks ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and PBS. He has been a recipient of the University of Arkansas' journalist of the year award, as well as receiving first prize for television documentary awarded by the Society of Professional Journalists. Learn more at [ Ссылка ].
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