A Culture of Treating Others with Respect
There is so much discussion in our country about how government should work. Each day brings angry digital posts about government waste and agencies that some feel are long overdue for budget cuts.
Keeping Traffic Moving in Winter Weather
It has been a dynamic year for Arkansas Good Roads. In some ways, we are more engaged and visible than the organization has ever been.
Transition at ARDOT
There may have never been a week like it at ARDOT. On December 3, city leaders and ARDOT officials gathered in the Clinton Library Museum parking lot to celebrate the largest road construction project in Arkansas history; a short time later, ARDOT announced that Director Lorie Tudor would retire in January.
2024 Was a Growth Year for Good Roads
It has been a dynamic year for Arkansas Good Roads. In some ways, we are more engaged and visible than the organization has ever been.
Highway 67’s Big Upgrade: Arkansas’s Path to Interstate 57 for Economic Growth
For those of you who have traveled Highway 67 in Arkansas for years, a major change is coming. The road will be converted to Interstate 57 and will eventually run from Chicago to North Little Rock. Over the past 60 years, $5 billion dollars has been spent on this project. The next section of the […]
A Growing City Where New Infrastructure is Key
By Deborah Horn White Hall city officials welcomed a new 87,000 sq. ft. Jefferson Regional Specialty Hospital in May, the latest of many recent groundbreakings, grand openings, and home starts. This is another concrete sign that the small city, with a population of almost 6,000 and once considered “just” a bedroom community of Pine Bluff, […]
80 Years After D-Day
Joe Quinn, AGRF Executive Director On a beautiful night recently, I was driving through White Hall as the sun started to set, and there wasn’t much passing traffic. It was a peaceful moment…a welcome break near the end of what had been a stressful week. As I drove past the little White Hall Museum, I […]