Arkansas Advocates for Children & Families

Mackenzie Clyburn has been promoted to vice president of hospital operations at Baptist Health Medical Center-Little Rock, and Dr. David Shenker has been promoted to chief medical officer. read more >

Media and communications professional Amanda Hoelzeman has joined The Peacock Group of Little Rock as the strategic communications firm’s public relations manager. read more >

As executive director, Smith said, she will also work to reduce racial disparities across the state. read more >

She joins AACF after spending the past decade at the Arkansas Department of Human Services, where she was deputy director of youth and families. read more >

If Arkansas politicians succeed in a push to abolish the state personal income tax, partly to avoid losing ultra-wealthy residents, the state must reckon with what it will give up: $3 billion a year in revenue. read more >

Dr. Anton Lishmanov has joined the cardiology team at Arkansas Heart Hospital and is seeing patients at clinics in Saline County, Little Rock, Hot Springs, Danville and Russellville. read more >

Restaurateur David Williams has seen a lot of change in downtown Little Rock since he opened Dave’s Place on Dec. 20, 1993. And yet in the notoriously difficult restaurant business, Dave’s Place has reached its 25th anniversary. read more >

Doug Ross has been promoted to senior vice president and chief medical officer for CHI St. Vincent in Hot Springs. read more >

Attendance Works and the Everyone Graduates Center released an analysis Friday that shows 50 Arkansas public schools have chronic absenteeism rates of 30 percent or more. read more >

Arkansas Advocates for Children & Families encourages constituents to consider issues that affect children as they decide who to vote for in the upcoming election. read more >

Before being named the executive director of Arkansas Advocates for Children & Families in July 2004, Rich Huddleston was the research and fiscal policy director for the nonprofit and was the lead program staff for its State Fiscal Analysis Initiative. read more >

Tamika Edwards, director of public policy at Southern Bancorp Community Partners, has been hired as director of governmental affairs at Arkansas Advocates for Children & Families, based in Little Rock. Edwards was selected as an Arkansas Business 40 Under 40 honoree in 2010. read more >

Whether raising the minimum wage — a burning issue in the tourism and hospitality industries — will actually help all the people it’s aimed at is a question of deep disagreement, even among experts. There does appear to be, however, consensus on the minimum conditions necessary to have a sustainable economy. read more >

Rhonda Sanders, a former executive director of the Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance, has been named CEO of the Arkansas Foodbank, the largest nongovernment source of food aid for the hungry in Arkansas. read more >