It’s crystal ball gazing time for Arkansas colleges and universities  as the Arkansas General Assembly gathers Monday in Little Rock to begin a first-ever “fiscal session.” University of Arkansas Community College at Hope Chancellor Chris Thomason thinks he has a fairly clear picture.... flat growth that may affect tuition costs.

Despite a protracted bid process aggravated by steel prices and poor weather, the construction of Hempstead Hall on the University of Arkansas Community College at Hope campus appeared ready to proceed Monday with the tentative award of a low bid to an Arkansas-based company.

What is in a child’s heart seems to be the hub of local efforts to send help to the victims of the devastation left after the earthquake and aftershock destruction in Haiti.

The annual celebration of Black History Month will begin Feb. 6, with events planned throughout the month, according to Vincent Wesley, president of the Black Historical and Development Society.

An engineering report on the condition of the Martindale Clinic building roof is expected to be forwarded to the City of Hope next week; but, preliminary expectations leave some doubts.

Winter does return, but it will not be too sticky, as of the most recent morning forecast out of Shreveport, La.