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SUMMARY:2024 First Friday Breakfast Series: June 7th
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our June First Friday Breakfast event as we welcome Rex Nelson\, Nationally Recognized Writer and Expert on Southern Culture! Rex will be discussing the positive economic trends in Arkansas and how the Fort Smith region fits into that. \n\n\n\nRex Nelson is one of the most high-profile writers and speakers in the state. As senior editor of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette\, he writes three columns a week and essays for the cover of the newspaper's Sunday Perspective section. He's the author of three books -- the first full-length biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton\, a biography of Arkansas educator Ben Elrod and a collection of his essays on Arkansas. He's also the author of a popular blog known as Rex Nelson's Southern Fried and makes regular television and radio appearances.\n\n\n\nNelson served for almost a decade as the policy and communications director for Gov. Mike Huckabee and then served for four years in the administration of President George W. Bush as one of the president's two appointees to the Delta Regional Authority. He has been inducted into the Arkansas Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame. In 2016\, Gov. Asa Hutchinson and the Arkansas Rural Development Commission named Nelson as its Rural Advocate of the Year for the state of Arkansas.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<br />\n<br />\n<span style="color:#000000\;">Please join us for our <strong>June First Friday Breakfast</strong> event as we welcome Rex Nelson\, Nationally Recognized Writer and Expert on Southern Culture! Rex will be discussing the positive economic trends in Arkansas and how the Fort Smith region fits into that.&nbsp\;<br />\n<br />\n<span style="font-style: inherit\; font-variant-ligatures: inherit\; font-variant-caps: inherit\; font-weight: inherit\;">Rex Nelson is one of the most high-profile writers and speakers in the state. As senior editor of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette\, he writes three columns a week and essays for the cover of the newspaper&#39\;s Sunday Perspective section. He&#39\;s the author of three books -- the first full-length biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton\, a biography of Arkansas educator Ben Elrod and a collection of his essays on Arkansas. He&#39\;s also the author of a popular blog known as Rex Nelson&#39\;s Southern Fried and makes regular television and radio appearances.</span><br />\n<br />\n<span style="font-style: inherit\; font-variant-ligatures: inherit\; font-variant-caps: inherit\; font-weight: inherit\;">Nelson served for almost a decade as the policy and communications director for Gov. Mike Huckabee and then served for four years in the administration of President George W. Bush as one of the president&#39\;s two appointees to the Delta Regional Authority. He has been inducted into the Arkansas Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame. In 2016\, Gov. Asa Hutchinson and the Arkansas Rural Development Commission named Nelson as its Rural Advocate of the Year for the state of Arkansas.&nbsp\;</span></span><br />\n<br />\n<img alt="" height="264" src="https://chambermaster.blob.core.windows.net/userfiles/UserFiles/chambers/201/Image/RexNelson1.jpg" style="width: 200px\; height: 264px\;" width="200" />
LOCATION:University of Arkansas Fort Smith\, Smith-Pendergraft Campus Center\, Reynolds Room 800 North 49th Street Fort Smith\, AR 72904
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URL:https://public.fortsmithchamber.com/events/details/2024-first-friday-breakfast-series-june-7th-17995
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