*GUNS ON CAMPUS: The Senate today approved a measure 31-4 to allow colleges and universities to decide whether faculty and staff can carry concealed handguns. Now the measure heads to Gov. Mike Beebe, who is likely to sign it into law.

*SEQUESTRATION: Here’s a great interactive map of state by state impact of sequestration. Arkansas mostly in the middle in terms of feeling the pain.

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*MEDICAID: The Washington Post reports that some Republican governors, retreating from full-throated Obamacare opposition, are using expansion negotiations as an attempt to push conservative changes to the Medicaid program. Matthew Yglesias had a good post a while back arguing that Republicans could have gotten a lot more in the way of concessions in healthcare reform if they had been willing to bargain in the first place. Beebe’s quote from that WaPo piece makes it sound like partial expansion is going to be on the table:

We’ve had a number of specific requests from the legislative leadership that a few weeks ago most folks would have thought not to be possible. But after meeting with Secretary Sebelius and her team, some things we thought might not be possible are indeed possible.

*MORE MEDICAID: Good point, re-tweeted by a few Republican legislators, that just because Rick Scott endorses expansion doesn’t mean the Florida legislature will go along. That scorecard map that newspapers like to cite has Arkansas (and Florida) as YES…and we ain’t there yet.

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*DARK MONEY: Fluff piece on Teresa Oelke, head of the Arkansas chapter of the Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity.

*STRAWBERRIES! Walmart is donating $3 million to the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture purposes of strawberry sustainability. See press release after the jump.

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