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Still standing in the ballroom
There was a new development in the White House ballroom/East Wing project and the legal issue of standing. The Washington Post reported this week in an article “‘I am the code’: Trump clashed with...
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Tom Cotton’s intelligence
Sen. Tom Cotton is a smart, hard-working Yell County boy who now occupies an important leadership position as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Two things perplex me about Sen. Cotton....
View ArticleTop Saracen Casino execs recommended for termination
The Downstream Development Authority said Saracen execs Carlton Saffa and Matt Harkness had created their own gaming software and had marketed it to third parties in the Arkansas gaming industry.
View ArticleCounty judge vetoes Pulaski County data center ordinance; override of veto...
Three days after the Pulaski County Quorum Court passed a long-sought ordinance to put legal guardrails around data centers, County Judge Barry Hyde vetoed it, saying the measure went too far and would...
View ArticleJudge rejects collusive settlement agreement between Sanders and corrections...
Calling the parties’ joint motion an “attempt to brand the Arkansas Judiciary obsolete,” Judge Patti James said granting the motion “would result in preposterous and absurd consequences in which this...
View ArticleTalking health and welfare in Arkansas District 2
Second District Democratic candidate Chris Jones dissects the One Big Beautiful Bill and its impact on the poor.
View ArticleArkansas abortion ban lawsuit faces its first day in court, while the state...
Six women say Arkansas’ abortion ban left them pleading for care, enduring dangerous pregnancies or crossing state lines for abortions. Waldorf v. Arkansas gets its first hearing Monday.
View ArticleLRSD board discusses school closures, 2027 budgeting and revised hiring plan
The latest LRSD Forward proposal seeks to reduce the district’s annual operating costs by roughly $5 million to $6 million to account for declining enrollment and underuse of about one-quarter of the...
View ArticleCome for the hate, stay for the baloney: Sarah Sanders’ anti-trans TV ad...
Gov. Sanders has gone up with a truly repellent reelection campaign ad in which she not only offers a false caricature that demeans transgender Arkansans, but also takes credit for doing things she...
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Arkansas awards $54M in second round of federal rural healthcare funding
Arkansas awarded $54.6 million to dozens of recipients through a new federal program to support projects aimed at bolstering rural healthcare, state officials announced Thursday. Established through...
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‘Kitten’: A Q&A with writer Stacey Yu ahead of Six Bridges Book Festival
With bestselling authors like Ariel Lawhon, Alix E. Harrow, Deesha Philyaw, Sarah Damoff and Annie Hartnett on the docket, the Central Arkansas Book Festival’s Six Bridges Book Festival — running...
View ArticleJude Brothers’ gorgeously pastoral third album ‘Dogwood Maiden Voyage’ is a...
This is music for long walks in the woods at golden hour, for dancing at your uncle’s birthday party in the Shire, for the moment when the campfire has begun to dwindle and the darkness of the forest...
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Listen to your Elders: Lessons in public service from Dr. Joycelyn Elders
The hottest days of a particularly warm August overlapped with the (re)introduction of many to a plain-speaking “shero” of the Clinton era. The Arkansas Repertory Theatre produced a world premiere of...
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4 candidates seek to fill Arkansas state Senate seat vacancy
Four Arkansans filed by Thursday’s deadline to run in the Jan. 5 special election to fill the Senate District 18 vacancy, according to the secretary of state’s office. Independent candidates Steven...
View ArticleReport: State going backward in insuring children
Arkansas had been nationally recognized for the high number of children who were insured. But that is not the case today.
View ArticleWendell Griffen celebrates birthday with data center win
The retired judge’s path from tech novice to successful data center ordinance author started with a fateful visit to his 90-something former law professor.
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