Jordan P. Hickey
@jordanphickey.bsky.social
Arkansas-based freelance journalist. James Beard Award finalist. Johns Hopkins 2025 Food Systems and Public Health Fellow. Words in WaPo, Garden & Gun, VQR, Arkansas Advocate, others. Spanish, Urdu. Trying not to tump.
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“Inconvenience is when your DoorDash shows up late or your pizza is cold, not being asked to find a new place to live in one of the most challenging rental markets in the country.” @jordanphickey.bsky.social on the luxury student dorms decimating affordable housing in college towns @inthesetimes.com
Zoning for the Future in Northwest Arkansas
After years of growth and “Best Place to Live” lists, Fayetteville, Arkansas, has been forced to look in the mirror—and its zoning
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November 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
“Inconvenience is when your DoorDash shows up late or your pizza is cold, not being asked to find a new place to live in one of the most challenging rental markets in the country.” @jordanphickey.bsky.social on the luxury student dorms decimating affordable housing in college towns @inthesetimes.com
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"Hind spent her final hours trapped in a bullet-ridden car, surrounded by the bodies of six relatives, making desperate calls for help."
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60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.
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July 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
"Hind spent her final hours trapped in a bullet-ridden car, surrounded by the bodies of six relatives, making desperate calls for help."
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CLF is delighted to announce the new fellows who comprise the 2025 cohort of the Food Systems and Public Health Fellowship for Journalists. The 2025 cohort is the fellowship’s second cohort and is composed of 12 journalists. clf.jhsph.edu/about-us/new...
June 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
CLF is delighted to announce the new fellows who comprise the 2025 cohort of the Food Systems and Public Health Fellowship for Journalists. The 2025 cohort is the fellowship’s second cohort and is composed of 12 journalists. clf.jhsph.edu/about-us/new...
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Lancaster’s Cleo Hearn is a rodeo legend. His four sons have all made their mark on the sport. Even his toddler granddaughters are set to saddle up.
The Legend and Legacy of the Original Cowboy of Color
Lancaster’s Cleo Hearn is a rodeo legend. His four sons have all made their mark on the sport. Even his toddler granddaughters are set to saddle up.
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May 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Lancaster’s Cleo Hearn is a rodeo legend. His four sons have all made their mark on the sport. Even his toddler granddaughters are set to saddle up.
Some exciting personal news:
Looks like the @longreads.com piece that I wrote about Amanda Arafat and her family was named a #JamesBeard finalist in profile writing this morning. Thrilled and humbled because that's some pretty impressive company to be in — but especially glad that this very 1/3
Looks like the @longreads.com piece that I wrote about Amanda Arafat and her family was named a #JamesBeard finalist in profile writing this morning. Thrilled and humbled because that's some pretty impressive company to be in — but especially glad that this very 1/3
May 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Some exciting personal news:
Looks like the @longreads.com piece that I wrote about Amanda Arafat and her family was named a #JamesBeard finalist in profile writing this morning. Thrilled and humbled because that's some pretty impressive company to be in — but especially glad that this very 1/3
Looks like the @longreads.com piece that I wrote about Amanda Arafat and her family was named a #JamesBeard finalist in profile writing this morning. Thrilled and humbled because that's some pretty impressive company to be in — but especially glad that this very 1/3
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Fayetteville was once a town that pulled people back in after they’d left to sample other cities. But for many residents, especially the ones that make NWA weird in the best way possible, the gravity of this place isn’t applied equally.
As Northwest Arkansas booms, residents are asking: Does Fayetteville still belong to them? - Arkansas Times
Fayetteville was once a town that pulled people back in after they’d left to sample other cities — once they’d achieved “escape velocity,” as the great Arkansas writer Charles Portis put it. But for m...
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April 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Fayetteville was once a town that pulled people back in after they’d left to sample other cities. But for many residents, especially the ones that make NWA weird in the best way possible, the gravity of this place isn’t applied equally.
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I asked an international human rights lawyer recently what red lines to watch for - he said, “when people start to disappear.” Well…https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/ice-tufts-student-detained-rumeysa-ozturk.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Student, Is Detained by ICE
The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated, its president said in a late-night email to students and faculty members.
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March 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I asked an international human rights lawyer recently what red lines to watch for - he said, “when people start to disappear.” Well…https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/ice-tufts-student-detained-rumeysa-ozturk.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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"Poring over social media isn’t so different than idly wondering what happened to young people in a well-loved yearbook."
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Plano Senior High Alum’s Instagram Quest to Find 1,122 Former Classmates - Longreads
"An optometrist and Pokémon master Minh Nguyen has tracked down nearly 200 former classmates. It may have saved his life."
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March 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"Poring over social media isn’t so different than idly wondering what happened to young people in a well-loved yearbook."
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Agriculture has long been a part of Northwest Arkansas’ identity. However, over the past several decades, Walmart’s corporate presence has ushered in a surge of urban development, shifting the region from a farming hub into a major metropolitan area.
Via @investigatewest.bsky.social
Via @investigatewest.bsky.social
Can Northwest Arkansas farming survive in Walmart’s backyard? • Arkansas Advocate
Agriculture has long been a part of Northwest Arkansas’ identity. However, over the past several decades, Walmart’s corporate presence has ushered in a surge of urban development, shifting the region…
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March 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Agriculture has long been a part of Northwest Arkansas’ identity. However, over the past several decades, Walmart’s corporate presence has ushered in a surge of urban development, shifting the region from a farming hub into a major metropolitan area.
Via @investigatewest.bsky.social
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Been perusing the list of the 569 #vouchers vendors approved by the Arkansas Dept. of Ed. Some that stand out: Upward Fitness & Pickleball in Siloam Springs; Springdale Youth Wrestling; Swim with Karma in Bentonville; Echo Valley Arabians in Gravette.
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Well, this smells. And it's not the horses' fault ...
Vouchers for homeschooled kids to pay for private horse riding lessons. This is where we are with Sarah Sanders’ LEARNS Act.
November 23, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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Read Jordan P. Hickey’s #VQRTrueStory on an Arkansas town coming to grips with its past, new in our Fall 2024 issue:
Image Problems
“People will see your ad. It will work.” He wasn’t wrong. There are few places better suited to be the poster child for billboard advertising than Harrison, Arkansas, which was dubbed “the most…
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November 20, 2024 at 10:00 PM
Read Jordan P. Hickey’s #VQRTrueStory on an Arkansas town coming to grips with its past, new in our Fall 2024 issue: