Arkansas Online

WASHINGTON -- With less than two months until Election Day, it is unclear whether the three candidates for Arkansas' U.S. Senate seat will share a debate stage this fall.

Irma Chavez, the founder and executive director of the Arkansas Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, has no doubts about the impact of nationwide enhanced immigration enforcement on Northwest Arkansas businesses. While bigger businesses can protect themselves from the immigration enforcement campaign's impact, small and family-owned businesses cannot, Chavez said.

PRAIRIE GROVE -- The story of Genesis Ranch is one of miracles and redemption, both for the girls who will get treatment there and for the land itself, according to Joy Thomas, the ranch's executive director.

Questions about political philosophy, religion, ancestry and special skills, queries not normally asked on a housing form, dot the application for an all-white community in northern Arkansas.

U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Ark., hopes voters reflect on this Congress positively when they decide who will represent Arkansas' 1st Congressional District in November. He faces two challengers this fall: Democrat Terri Yarbrough Green and Libertarian Steve Parsons.