Governor Hutchinson will hold his weekly briefing today. You’re welcome to suggest questions for him here. A few come to mind.

Is today the day you’ll finally say without qualification that Joe Biden is president-elect and will take office in January?

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Do you still believe Arkansas’s mostly unenforced mandate and a return to business as usual, with some limits, held down the growth of COVID-19 in Arkansas?

Have meat processors been subjected to enough scrutiny for health practices?

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Should high schools play basketball this winter?

Will you require people to take the vaccines? What are your priorities for distribution? Will elected officials be given preference?

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Do you understand that the “thin blue line” flag you flew over the Governor’s Mansion has been adopted as a banner of white supremacists and other fringe elements; is a perversion of the flag code, and an insult to people victimized by bad police practices?

 

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