‘Power couple’ sits down for web series

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‘Power couple’ sits down for web series

What some consider Jefferson County's power couple, Pine Bluff Council Member Joni Alexander and husband, Jefferson County Judge Gerald Robinson, sat down with the Pine Bluff Commercial's Editor Byron Tate in a two-part web series of the Pine Bluff Commercial's segment 'The Newsroom."

Source: The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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