MEET KRIS HAIRE Age: 32 Hometown: Hot Springs, Arkansas Apprenticeship: Oaklawn MY BACK STORY I grew up on the less fortunate side of Hot Springs, in a single-mother home in the housing projects. I have one brother and two sisters. I’m the middle child, so my mom was always worried about the oldest and the […]
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THE WORD FOR July 2021 is gratitude! Here we are just past the middle of the year, and we’re actually able to enjoy some of this summer. And while we do, we at ACDS want to express our thanks to all of you with whom we’ve built relationships over the past 24 months. To the
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This month, in lieu of a regular Guest Column, we bring you a handful of short-ish insights and observations that for various reasons didn’t make it into our featured Q & A’s over the past year. We try to keep our published interviews in the 2000-2500-word range, and yet some of the raw
John Chamberlin, Tech Entrepreneur, Teacher, & Cheerleader for Arkansas’ Computing History IF YOU’VE READ the past few issues of this newsletter, you’ve come in contact with John Chamberlin’s contagious enthusiasm for promoting the long history of technology expertise in this state. “If we get a lesson in Arkansas history about the Bowie knife, we should
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