Mara Liasson is a national political correspondent for NPR. Her reports can be heard regularly on NPR's award-winning newsmagazine programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Liasson provides extensive coverage of politics and policy from Washington, DC — focusing on the White House and Congress — and also reports on political trends beyond the Beltway.
In today's show, updates to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services naturalization test - making it longer and more rigorous. Also, the inaugural La Posada celebration, and two new features to central Fayetteville's publicly-owned spaces.
The Arkansas Black Philanthropy Collaborative gathers funders and nonprofits for its fifth annual convening in Little Rock, featuring keynote speaker Charles Blow and its annual Black Philanthropy Award.
The Arkansas Crisis Center is teaming up with UAMS researchers to analyze 20 years of crisis line records, aiming to better understand mental health trends across the state. ACC president Joshua Gonzalez says the project could inform policy, youth intervention and future crisis response efforts.