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Arkansas towns receive federal funds to improve road safety
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JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) – The U.S. Department of Transportation announced Thursday that Arkansas would receive more than $32 million in federal grants to improve safety on the state’s roads and streets.
The grants will go directly to nine communities and counties to improve roadway safety and prevent deaths and serious injuries on rural and urban roads, according to a USDOT news release.
Those receiving the grants include:
- City of Batesville: 616,024 to study the safety and efficiency benefits of pedestrian blinker sign deployments with automatic thermal sensors at three locations; GPS/C-V2X emergency vehicle preemption equipment at three high-response locations; traffic signal synchronization on two high accident corridors; C-V2X enabled pedestrian/bicycle/vehicle sensor detection equipment at two traffic signals; and a bike/ped demonstration using quick-build materials.
- Izard County: $120,000 to develop a comprehensive safety action plan.
- City of Searcy: $400,000 This award will be used by City of Searcy to develop a comprehensive safety action plan.
- Columbia County Road Department: $280,000 to develop a comprehensive safety action plan.
- Drew County: $260,000 to develop a comprehensive safety action plan.
- City of Russellville: $463,680 to develop a Safety Action Plan and implement two demonstration activities. The demonstration activities consist of two initiatives: installing artistic painted crosswalks near Crawford Elementary School and implementing a temporary roundabout adjacent to Oakland Heights Elementary, both of which are in historically disadvantaged areas with a higher prevalence of active transportation users.
- Marion County: $120,000 to develop a comprehensive safety action plan.
- City of Little Rock: $25 million for the Little Rock Safe Streets for All project to make improvements to five major corridors along its high-injury network.
- City of Springdale: $5,187,280 for the Dean’s Trail Phase IIIB project to construct a multi-use trail segment.
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Vote for the Arkansas high school football play of the week (9/5/2024)
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NATE OLSON
Nate Olson has covered prep and college sports in Arkansas since 1998. He has managed several newspapers and magazines in The Natural State and has won numerous awards for his work. Nate, who also has six years of public relations experience, has appeared statewide on radio and television throughout his career, and currently co-hosts a high school football postgame radio show.
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Lawmakers to enforce rule fining pharmacy benefit managers to protect pharmacies
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KAIT/KARK) – Arkansas lawmakers are cracking down on pharmacy benefit managers for violating medication pricing standards.
According to content partner KARK, a law was passed that fines PBMs up to $5,000 per violation.
State law says no PBM can pay a pharmacy below their cost to buy a drug and below a fair and reasonable rate.
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Arkansas’ Defensive Line Provides Sizeable Test for Cowboys’ Offensive Front
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STILLWATER — South Dakota State’s starting defensive line had an average weight of about 266 pounds. The Razorbacks come to Boone Pickens on Saturday with a stout defensive line that averages about 33 pounds heavier per player.
That’s the difference between the FCS level and the SEC.
“When you’re playing a team in the SEC, you’re going to play girth,” OSU coach Mike Gundy said. “You’re going to run into guys that have a lot of guys with a lot of size and are physical in the box. They have a really good geographical location for producing bigger type bodies like that. That’s where I mentioned that we need to make good strides from last week to this week in order to block a completely different front than we did last week.”
Arkansas’ defensive line might be the most impressive part of its team as the Razorbacks head to Stillwater this weekend for a game against Oklahoma State at 11 a.m. Saturday in Boone Pickens Stadium. OSU will match that group with an uber-experienced offensive line, a unit that will try to open lanes for Ollie Gordon and keep Alan Bowman upright. That battle in the trenches could be the matchup within the matchup that decides this game.
As good an FCS team as South Dakota State is, the Jackrabbits aren’t near as big on the defensive front. SDSU defensive tackles Jarod DePriest and Max Boloun are each listed at 285 pounds. Arkansas DTs Eric Gregory and Cameron Ball are listed at 320 and 324, respectively.
On top of that size in the middle, the Razorbacks D-line features a projected first round NFL Draft pick in defensive end Landon Jackson, who is listed at 6-foot-7, 280 pounds.
Jackson is the most prominent example of how highly touted this group is considered. Among those four starters from Arkansas’ season-opening 70-0 win against Arkansas-Pine Bluff, three were considered four-star prospects by at least one of the major recruiting services. All were considered top 500 recruits in their respective classes.
Jackson was a classmate of OSU linebacker Nick Martin while the two were high schoolers at Pleasant Grove in Texarkana, Texas. Jackson initially went to LSU out of high school over offers from Alabama, Ohio State, Oregon and others. What a ridiculous defense the Pleasant Grove Hawks must’ve had that season.
“I know their nose guards are very heavy,” OSU left tackle Dalton Cooper said. “Their nose guards, D tackles, they’re 320, 330, so they’re gonna be heavier-set guys. These last guys we played, they were like 280, 275. Not gonna say they were like easy to block, but they definitely aren’t gonna be as challenging as these Arkansas guys.
“Then Landon Jackson, the D end, No. 40, he’s just a player. He’s projected first-round pick — whatever that is. We gotta treat them like we do every week. Just attack the day, don’t get too far ahead in our minds and just stay humble and grounded in what we do.”
So, that’s the Arkansas side of the tale of the tape. On OSU’s side, the Cowboys start five sixth-year seniors along the offensive line. On top of that, the Cowboys regularly worked in Arizona State transfer Isaia Glass on Saturday to give Cooper some breathers. The unit kept Bowman, OSU’s quarterback, clean as a Buc-ee’s bathroom on Saturday, as Bowman wasn’t sacked and was hurried only three times.
OSU’s offensive line did, though, have a bit of a harder time run blocking. The Cowboys ran for 3.8 yards per carry. Gordon, the reigning Doak Walker winner, still had his numbers, going for 126 yards and three touchdowns, but he still had to work for it. Gordon led the nation in broken tackles in Week 1, according to PFF.
If the Cowboys want to be the team many orange-clad supporters think they can be, a good performance from OSU’s offensive line against a stout Arkansas front four will go a long way in proving that the Pokes’ College Football Playoff aspirations are possible.
“Our double teams, our combo blocks, weren’t as solid as they could’ve been (against South Dakota State),” Cooper said. “Either we were falling off early or staying on too long and not picking up the backer flowing over. We just gotta be better with that. We know what we need to do, and that’s all we’re doing this week is to fix that so we can get ready for this Arkansas game.”
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