New Beginnings

This summer, President Trump signed an executive order to end "crime and homelessness on America's streets." The order removes funding for government programs that address housing first models of homelessness and urges state and local governments to place people with mental illness or drug use disorders into treatment facilities. Solomon Burchfield, executive director of New Beginnings, a nonprofit transitional housing community, speaks with reporter Daniel Caruth.

On today's edition of Ozarks at Large, an interview with Carolyn Staley - author and childhood neighbor of Bill Clinton, who will be speaking at the Fayetteville Public Library on Sept. 10. Also, a program in northwest Arkansas that will produce Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, or CRNAs.

On Tuesday, June 17, the Fayetteville City Council voted 5-3 to deny a one-year “safe camping” resolution, which would have provided immediate aid to unhoused individuals recently removed from an illegal encampment on University of Arkansas-owned property. Ozark at Large's Sophia Nourani offers this report.

Today on The Outline: a new director of tourism for the state of Arkansas. Also, celebrating two years of providing bridge housing with New Beginnings.

New Beginnings, a bridge housing community, is planning on the completion of a capital project with a major gift. The story is part of this week's…