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Article: Trying times: readers, advertisers have varied opinions following six issues of the weekly Arkansas Times.
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- Arkansas Business
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- June 15, 1992
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"The only thing wrong with this paper is that it doesn't come out every day."
That is what Alan Leveritt, president of the Arkansas Writers' Project Inc., says he is hearing about the new weekly Arkansas Times.
Leveritt founded the Union Station Times in September 1974 when he was a student at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. The 32-page publication was printed on newsprint, had a cartoon cover and provided an alternative viewpoint on life in central Arkansas.
Leveritt dropped out of college his senior year to focus on the publication, which in July 1975 became a monthly statewide magazine, the Arkansas Times. His dream was to have a magazine ...