Issues surrounding the financing of the Grand Gulf Nuclear Generating Station convulsed politics in Arkansas for the last two decades of the 20th century and continued to create legal controversy into 2023 over the financial harm the giant plant did to homeowners and other power users in Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana.
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Mr. Gazette: The story of Sharpe Dunaway
Sharpe Dunaway may be the most famous traveling salesman in Arkansas history, a distinction only partly due to his sidelines: politics, writing and state promotion.
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Scrapbooks with a sex scandal: On Orval Faubus’ memoirs
Although they accumulate more than a million words, both volumes of “Down From the Hills” constitute albums more than they do memoirs. They are packed with hundreds of illustrations and photographs of the governor on almost every public occasion, including one of him wielding an axe in the woods when he joined a Highway Department crew in 1963 to trim a road right-of-way near Huntsville.
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Joe, the one-man terrorist band
He earned notoriety from his Sharp Citizen newspaper.
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The prelude to Winthrop Rockefeller’s rise in Arkansas
An excerpt from a new biography .
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Arkansas’s history of celebrating emancipation
Black Arkansans have been celebrating it for more than 100 years — and not just in June.
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History in a shoebox: New photographs of 1957 Central High discovered
Photographer Rita Henry found and printed negatives of photographs taken by Walter Riddick Jr. of Central’s desegregation.