Arkansas Blog

People struggling to make the rent are protesting Governor Hutchinson's refusal to accept $146 million in federal rent relief.

The Arkansas Department of Health reports 556 new COVID-19 cases over the last 24 hours.

Rich Huddleston, executive director of Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, speaks the truth in reaction to the Uvalde mass shooting. Gun violence is a public health emergency

It's not nearly enough.

If you're a progressive in Arkansas, you have to really squint to find good news in election returns last night.

Arkansas’s masterful 2021 baseball season reached its peak at the wrong time. Thus far, the 2022 campaign looks more like one where we’ll wonder why they never peaked at all.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who easily won her primary election last night and is widely predicted to easily win in November, is already being mentioned as former President Donald Trump's running mate, should the twice-impeached conman win the nomination in 2024.

State Sen. Bob Ballinger (R-Berryville), who drew four Republican primary challengers in District 28, is headed to a June 21 runoff against Bryan King, the former state senator who Ballinger defeated in 2018. They highlight a host of legislative races with runoffs.

At least it's not boring. Arkansas Republican voters go with the bankrupt ethics rules violator for state treasurer.

Let America see the reality of our collective obsession with guns. Let us see whether our broad interpretation of the Second Amendment and typical reflex to invoke some concept of “freedom” in the face of every such atrocity survives such an assault of images. 

It's Jones vs. Sanders for Arkansas's top office.

The Pulaski County early vote results are in and, to the degree that they're telling, hold few surprises. The favorites in all the constitutional offices on each side are leading, perhaps save for Sen. Mat Pitsch, who some thought might have a leg up on bankruptcy-plagued Rep. Mark Lowery, in the Republican primary for State Treasurer. Lowery is winning by almost 40% in the early totals, though Pulaski is Lowery's home county.

A gunman murdered a teacher and 14 elementary school children today. Hope your precious 2A rights were worth it.

Five more deaths.

Beaten by a schoolboy.

Sentencing will happen tomorrow, as planned.

Your favorite candidates might not win today, but your least-favorite candidates will almost certainly lose. And that's something.

73 hospitalized.

A team of legislators and their attorneys is working to keep a long list of documents about the 2021 transgender youth health care ban out of the public eye. Among those documents is an email from Ronnie Floyd.