APEI expects the contracts to help create at least 25 high-tech engineering jobs in Fayetteville. APEI is based out of the UA’s Arkansas Research & Technology Park.

This weekend, as many of us enjoy a three-day holiday weekend and do so in many innovative ways, let’s welcome in the unofficial start of summer and have fun with family and friends. By all means. But let’s make the time on Monday to remember those whose ultimate sacrifices afford us the opportunity to do it.

West Little Rock at noon is an adventure unto itself. The Chenal-Bowman-Markham-Shackleford loop at “high tide” — rush hour, lunch hour — can be tedious at best to navigate.

Nine Arkansas cities/government entities applied to be selected as a trial location for Google’s planned ultra high-speed broadband network. Google published the list on April 15.