Governor Hutchinson yesterday lifted significant portions of pandemic restrictions  — on everything from restaurants and bars to gyms and public schools. He did preserve the widely ignored and unenforced mask mandate through March 31.

The federal  Eastern District court in Little Rock isn’t ready to move quite so quickly.

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Chief Judge Price Marshall yesterday issued an order extending a suspension of jury trials by two months, through May 21.

In summary:

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