Meet the woman who broke…

The Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures celebrates the true story of three African-American women who helped propel the U.S. space program to new heights. While Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan and Katherine Johnson were breaking barriers at NASA, another hidden figure, Raye Montague, was making history at the U.S. Navy.

Abortion foes rally for 39th straight year

Elliot Timberlake, 1, and his mother, Janet Timberlake of Maumelle, listen to speakers Sunday during the March for Life at the state Capitol in Little Rock. A diverse crowd, energized by the inauguration of a Republican president, rallied Sunday at the Arkansas state Capitol for the 39th straight year in a show of solidarity against abortion.

An angle on collecting sales tax from Amazon, other online sales

Rolf Wilkin of Fayetteville, owner of a group of pizza restaurants and president of the Arkansas Restaurant Association, tells me there is a way short of federal legislation to recoup some of the lost sales tax unpaid in Arkansas customer transactions with web giant Amazon. I mentioned earlier that the Little Rock City Board wants to talk wth Arkansas congressmen about a long-pending legislative idea to require collection of sales taxes on Internet sales, with resulting payments to cities and counties and others now missing out on the commerce generated by physical businesses in their jurisdictions.