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Keaton Smith won the School Board open seat hands down thanks to you, friends. Next we need to stay tuned to what’s going on at school board meetings, when controversy may begin to rear its ugly head. Well-know community leader and community servant, environmentalist, founder of mixed-income neighborhood communities, father and husband. Keaton has served one powerful term on the school board and proven himself to be a firm advocate for education and children.

Joanie is a founding member of Omni Center’s first steering committee. She’s still thinking and writing about peace and love after all these years. Come by for some deep discussion of this topic, that becomes ever more important as tensions and polarization increase in the world.

From Justice of the Peace Beth Coger   Our Quorum Court is becoming a local battle ground and the intersection of property rights, election integrity and having final say on what books are banned! The Quorum court makes decisions on zoning for families, the security of the ballot box and election commission operations and will make final decisions about books referred from local school boards! Who you vote for matters whether it is a JP seat or House seat!  Our Democratic candidates that moved the needle last time, are continuing their races and running again. Our 2023-24 field plan has a firm foundation […]

From the Weekly Washington County Democrat SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS ELECTION DAY IS MAY 9 — EARLY VOTING STARTS ON MAY 2 School board elections are just around the corner. With the passage of the LEARNS act, banning books and all the anti-trans legislation, these races are critically important to our public schools.  Who can vote?  If you live in the city limits of the Fayetteville School district, you can vote. School_Board_Zone_Map_2021.pdf (core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com) These are non-partisan races. If you don’t know who to vote for, call them or see who’s standing with them on social media! Springdale School district has two at large members running.  These are […]

Fayetteville City Council Meeting Tuesday May 2 – 5:00 pm Rally 5:30 pm City Council Meeting Fayetteville City Admin Building 113 W. Mountain St. Fayetteville There are those who imagine that homeless people are really not quite human. They’re dirty, probably drug addicts and criminals. I don’t believe most Omni folks are in that camp. We’re the bleeding hearts who hand them change out the car window and wish them well. But nobody really know how to help them. That includes our city government. In it’s wish to take care of the earth and our city, our city codes are […]