Arkansas Blog

Supreme Court Justice Rhonda Wood announced her candidacy for the chief justice seat being vacated by Dan Kemp. Wood was cleared by Arkansas Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission after facing an ethics complaint related to the bribery scandal involving former Circuit Judge Michael Maggio and former state Senator Gilbert Baker.

Voters supporting the victories of two challengers to "conservative" Conway School Board incumbents celebrated at an election watch party, on social media, with pictures of hugs and tears and with plenty of exclamation points.

U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, taking a break from defending Harlan Crow, the billionaire bankrolling Justice Clarence Thomas, has filed a stupid new bill that's transparently nothing more than an excuse for him to go on TV and talk about the evils of drag shows. 

The state Department of Finance and Administration expects to receive more than $10 million in federal grant money to strengthen the state's power grid against natural disasters, including tornadoes.

The victim was found on April 23, 2021 in an abandoned building at 1015 E. 10th Street in Little Rock, according to the Little Rock Police Department.

Drink up!

The Little Rock radar at the National Weather Service is down today pending the repair of the air conditioner that keeps the radar from overheating.

Northwest Arkansas Pride will not hold any official events inside the Walton Arts Center for the state’s largest celebration of the queer community, NWA Pride Director Richard Gathright said Wednesday.

Pine Bluff voters narrowly voted against two sales tax proposals on Tuesday. One would have created a permanent 3/8th-cent tax to benefit the city's police and fire departments, and the other would have extended a 5/8th-cent sales tax that benefits the nonprofit Go Forward Pine Bluff's economic development efforts.

Asa Hutchinson, who's staking his long-shot presidential bid on there being a lane in the Republican Party for an anti-Trump candidate, was one of the few national GOP figures to condemn Donald Trump after Trump was found liable for sexual abuse by a jury.

School board elections are nonpartisan in Arkansas, but the Conway races became so contentious and aligned with political ideology that Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders joined the fray and endorsed the two self-styled conservative incumbents. Sanders' picks lost. The winners pledge to focus on education, not divisive culture war issues.

The Tuesday Board of Directors meeting had a little bit of everything.

The lengthy process of getting residents out of the unsafe living conditions at Big Country Chateau sparked Director Joan Adcock to request a look into the practices of the Metropolitan Housing Alliance.

Former Arkansas governor turned long-shot presidential contender Asa Hutchinson was among the first Republicans to go after Donald Trump after a jury determined Trump sexually assaulted a woman in a department store dressing room.

What do you think?

Mike Moore, who oversees regulation of medical marijuana, casino gambling and racing and tobacco sales and alcohol enforcement in the state, announced his forthcoming retirement last week.

Funds from the bond millage that voters approved last August are starting to roll out, and the Little Rock Zoo and Parks and Recreation are up next to receive their checks.

The former president sexually assaulted a well-known magazine writer in a dressing room, a federal jury has found.

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois and five other senators have asked three federal agencies to "scrutinize" the University of Phoenix's participation in federal student aid programs.

In a release announcing the event, Rapert contends, "The NACL is one of the strongest forces for good in the United States since the American Revolution."