September Public Health Column written by Sheldon Riklon, M.D., UAMS Family Medicine Physician The back-to-school season means getting everything ready for your kids to have a successful year, and there’s one thing that should be at the top of your list: vaccines. When kids get together at school, they share germs, and many illnesses could […]
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Springdale, AR — June 17, 2023 For Men’s Health Month, AenEmmaan, a Marshallese men’s group in NWA, organized their first Father’s Day Fishing Tournament. Fishing began at Springdale Lake in the early morning, followed by an award’s ceremony at Murphy Park announcing the top three prize winners. Over 80 fathers signed up for the tournament!
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This week both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate passed the Fiscal Responsibility Act, which will raise the limit on federal borrowing, suspend the debt limit for two years, and cut back on federal spending. The legislation received broad support in the House with 149 Republican and 117 Democrat votes. Though House majority leader
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Arkansas stopped disenrolling Medicaid beneficiaries in 2020 per the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, which increased federal funds to match state funds for Medicaid during the public health emergency. Dr. Riklon explains more about medicaid and medicaid recertification in this previous post. Last December, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, signed into law last December, issued the
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In the first week of taking office, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed several executive orders one of which establishes a policy regarding the use of “Latinx” in government documents. The executive order, signed on January 10, 2023, claims to “respect the Latino community by eliminating culturally insensitive words from official use.” It requires that
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This election the office of governor was open for new candidates in Arkansas to run. Governor Asa Hutchinson, being term limited, will be finishing his second term in office as state governor and handing over the position to Governor-Elect Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Although more than half of the states allow for the re-election of a
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Pasifika Strong, a multi-national census of Pacific Islander community organizations in the continental US, created by Kevin Lujan Lee in his doctoral work. There are over 400 organizations already in the census. The census data will be anonymized, aggregated, and released back to us in the community next year in December 2023. To facilitate the timely release of this
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Like the Olympics, midterm elections happen every two years but alternate between winter and summer sports. The midterms elect new members of Congress – not a new president. They happen in the middle of the president’s four-year term of office. In 2020, the balance of power swung over the Democrat party with the election of President
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We also have been watching Alaska which has ranked voting. With 95% votes counted, Alaska has one Senate and one House seat that has not yet been decided. Sen. Murkowski (R) running for re-election won 43.3% of the vote and Kelly Tshibaka (R), endorsed by Trump, received 42.7% of the votes. With ranked voting, however,
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Bwebwenato in juon sponsored article jān the Jones Campaign. Read in English – Who is Chris Jones? View video recordings in Marshallese and English – Full Interview. Juon bwebwenato ippān Chris Jones, eo ej karreelel n̄an kabna eo an Arkansas. Kwomaron̄ bout ilo Oktoba 24 – Nobōm̧ba 8. Im Chikin Meļeļe ej kajjitōk ippān: wōn
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