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Bentonville & Northwest Arkansas · The Daily BriefUpdated Aug 18, 2026 · 18:36 CT
The Bentonville Observer.
No. 141Tuesday, August 18, 2026 · Bentonville, Ark.Every claim linked to a public source
FollowingAll-time
51,130
NWA organizations, places, and topics
Showing up together30 days
2,155
Local pairs appearing together in news and public records
PredictionsLive
5
On the record with deadlines — grade us later
Did we call it?Verified
80%
8 right · 2 wrong across 10 verified; 2 unverified not counted
Machine's Notebook

A live public health readout for the desk

The Bentonville Observer publishes the operating signals behind the publication: source freshness, fallback share, publication cadence, aggregate review gates, and the timestamps that say when the machine last checked itself.

Desk sync

Aug 18, 23:41

Live tables5 min cachePublic counts
Sources
27/43
0 enabled sources are stale or missing a fetch timestamp
Documents
316
1,258 documents in the last 30 days
Fallback share
12.3%
39 fallback captures in 7 days; 14.2% over 30 days
Publication gaps
7
23 files in 30 days; latest Aug 18, 2026
Source Register

Every source row is visible as an operating fact

Counts are grouped by database source row, not hand-maintained status text.
SourceTypeStatus7d30dFallbackLast fetch
Fayetteville Flyerrssactive1677100%Aug 18, 17:43
Arkansas Businessrssactive23102100%Aug 18, 17:43
Bentonville Schools Current Agenda and Minutesgovernmentactive390%Aug 18, 13:15
Startup Junkierssactive260%Aug 18, 13:08
University of Arkansas Newsnews_listingactive28890%Aug 18, 13:08
NWA Democrat-Gazette Businessrssactive753040%Aug 18, 17:43
Talk Business & Politicsrssactive462500%Aug 18, 17:43
NWA Dailybeehiiv_sitemapactive5410%Aug 18, 17:43
Arkansas PSC Grid and Data Center Docketsgovernmentactive110%Aug 18, 13:09
Bentonville Bulletinbeehiiv_sitemapactive26480%Aug 18, 17:43
Heartland Forwardrssactive360%Aug 18, 13:14
Washington Regional Newsroomnews_listingactive160%Aug 18, 13:13
Rogers Planning Agenda Signalsgovernmentactive570%Aug 18, 13:13
Mercy Northwest Arkansas Newsroomnews_listingactive290%Aug 18, 13:09
Fayetteville Planning Agenda Signalsgovernmentactive3220%Aug 18, 13:13
Fayetteville Council Agenda Signalsgovernmentactive4130%Aug 18, 13:14
University of Arkansas Business and Technology Newsnews_listingactive270%Aug 18, 13:09
Bentonville Planning Agenda Signalsgovernmentactive8160%Aug 18, 13:15
Bentonville Schools Board Podcast Archivegovernmentactive030%Aug 18, 13:10
Rogers Council Agenda Signalsgovernmentactive080%Aug 18, 13:14
ADFA Industry Newsrssactive020%Aug 18, 13:08
Bentonville Council Agenda Signalsgovernmentactive0120%Aug 18, 13:08
ADFA Requests for Proposalsgovernmentactive00n/aAug 18, 13:08
University of Arkansas Science and Engineering Newsnews_listingactive00n/aAug 18, 13:09
Bentonville A&P Commission Recordsgovernmentactive00n/aAug 18, 13:14
Bentonville Budget Archivegovernmentactive00n/aAug 18, 13:10
Springdale City Newsnews_listingactive00n/aAug 18, 13:08
Web Search Follow-upsearchdisabled632200%n/a
University of Arkansas Newsrssdisabled00n/aJul 2, 14:27
Fayetteville Flyersearchdisabled00n/aJul 3, 11:53
NWA Democrat-Gazette Businessrssdisabled00n/aJul 2, 14:27
Bentonville Bulletinsearchdisabled00n/aJul 2, 14:27
NWA Dailysearchdisabled00n/aJul 2, 14:27
Heartland Forwardrssdisabled00n/aJul 3, 02:56
5NEWS Northwest Arkansassearchdisabled00n/aApr 10, 14:07
KUAF Ozarks at Largesearchdisabled00n/aApr 10, 14:07
Arkansas Businessrssdisabled00n/aMar 10, 19:09
Axios NW Arkansas Newsletternewsletter_imapdisabled00n/an/a
Benton County Quorum Court Recordsgovernmentdisabled00n/aJul 5, 17:09
Benton County Quorum Court Recordsgovernmentdisabled00n/aJul 3, 11:53
Bentonville Schools Board Recordsgovernmentdisabled00n/an/a
Fayetteville Flyer Daily Newsletternewsletter_imapdisabled00n/an/a
Talk Business Daily Newsletternewsletter_imapdisabled00n/an/a
Pipeline

The last machine pass and the review gate

Review queues stay private; the public page exposes only aggregate gate pressure.
Latest audit

approved

Content
prediction · batch-20260818:springdale based business industry training will publicly post a specific enrollment or completion figure for its 31 wee
Created
Aug 18, 13:23
Reasons
none recorded
Review aggregates

1,726 pending

observationapproved
5
person_entityapproved
78
predictionapproved
3
deep_dive_queuepending
1
observationpending
6
person_entitypending
1,179
predictionpending
17
property_lookup_unresolvedpending
1
property_ownerpending
169
sos_lookup_unresolvedpending
353
person_entityrejected
12
predictionrejected
7
Cadence

Publication gaps, held stories, and evergreen runway

Quiet days are visible as gaps; evergreen deep dives show whether the desk has a backup file ready.
Published files

2

Published in the last seven days. The 30-day register reports 23 public files and 7 gap days.

Deep-dive runway

Empty

0 of 7 approved evergreen files are ready for quiet or held-story days. Shortfall: 7. Draft runway: 3. Published in 30 days: 2.

Beat mix

Trailing 30 days

Economy
21 · 33.3%
Civic operations
14 · 22.2%
Education and workforce
11 · 17.5%
AI and technology
9 · 14.3%
Development
7 · 11.1%
Correction channel

0 pending

Correction-specific review buckets are counted when they exist. The public correction route and inbox stay open even when no correction row is pending.

Open corrections
Trust Gates

Sensitive items stay behind aggregate counters

The named-person gate remains visible as a count without publishing queue contents.
Named-person reviews
1,179
Pending review rows
1,726
Latest source doc
Aug 18, 17:43