Arkansas Blog

Library stayed open only about a month.

The news today is nearly all COVID and a dash of Little Rock sales tax opposition.

Escorted by federal marshals, Maggio entered the courtroom Wednesday in shackles, but at Judge Marshall’s suggestion, they were removed. He wore a black T-shirt and trousers, a gray beard, a black mask, and the same outgoing, chatty personality he was long known for in Conway.

Up they go.

Siloam Springs crowd unreceptive to Governor Hutchinson's vaccine pitch. Loudly and angrily unreceptive.

School starts in two weeks, and the delta variant is going strong. We game out some scenarios.

COVID danger in at least 100 school districts.

Now that the season is over, I can tell you a little secret, knowing that you will probably have forgotten it by this time next year: the best place to get blackberries in Little Rock is Western Hills Park. You just have to be willing to do the picking.

Some big names, including a city director, join in campaign to defeat Little Rock sales tax increase.

Little Rock schools prepare to force issue on mask mandate ban.

Might mask/vax mandates be in order? Some think so, if not the governor of Arkansas.

The liberty of Arkansans to kill and be killed, whether by gun or by deadly virus, shall not be infringed.

When it came time to pay the Capitol police (and other House operations) all the Republicans from Arkansas said no.

Arkansas won't accept the law of the land on abortion.

It's a safety move, hospital says.

Unfriendly fire directed at Senate candidate Jake Bequette.

University of Arkansas freshman guard Moses Moody, 19, was selected in the 1st round by the Golden State Warriors with the 14th pick of the NBA draft on Thursday night.

It's an emergency, the governor says, but only if the legislature agrees.

Legislature will ask a reluctant legislature to meet next week to lift a ban on mask mandates for K-12 schools.

Judge orders state to restart truncated federal pandemic unemployment benefits.