Byron Tate

Recent stories by Byron Tate

Vaccine waiting list starting Jefferson Regional Medical Center is close to finishing the first phase of giving covid-19 vaccines and will start this week to take names for the second phase, hospital officials said Monday. Wendy ... January 12, 2021

OPINION | GROMER JEFFERS: Again, Cruz misread Trump Ted Cruz is a successful politician who rose from obscurity to score an upset win for the U.S. Senate. He became one of the best known constitutional conservatives in the country and set himself up fo... January 12, 2021

House member explains position Congressman Bruce Westerman released a statement Thursday explaining why he did not object to the outcome of the presidential election, saying that while Congress has a final check on electors, it's u... January 8, 2021

Westerman mum on objecting today Congressman Bruce Westerman is considering whether to join as many as 140 other Republican members of Congress today in objecting to the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, but he wasn't saying... January 6, 2021

After dispute over work status, library-system chief plans return Head librarian Bobbie Morgan said Monday that she plans on coming back to work. Morgan, who is the director of the Pine Bluff/Jefferson County Library System, was said last month to have cleared out ... January 5, 2021

Low highs, high lows mark weather for ’20 The hot days weren't that hot and the cold days weren't all that cold, but it did rain quite a bit. That was the weather for the Pine Bluff area for the year 2020 in a nutshell, according to the Nati... January 3, 2021

Casino exec: Success set to get even better Arguably, the biggest news in 2020 for Pine Bluff was the mid-October opening of the Saracen Casino Resort. The Saracen Casino Annex had opened a year before, so it wasn't as if gambling had just com... January 1, 2021

OPINION | EDITORIAL: White Hall on a roll, undeterred by crises With a population that tops 5,000, White Hall has been the recipient of quite a bit of growth over the past several years, and 2020 was no different. If it's a new place to eat or spend the night, Wh... January 1, 2021

Generator initiative's chief pushes forward Covid or no covid, Mildred Franco is ready to get moving. Franco is the executive director of The Generator, an initiative of Go Forward Pine Bluff with the mission of encouraging innovation and entr... December 30, 2020

13 organizations set to receive grants from promotion panel Thirteen organizations have received a total of $177,000 in grants from the Pine Bluff Advertising and Promotion Commission. To qualify for the grants, organizations had to apply and describe how the... December 29, 2020