Arkansas Blog

Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott Jr. pledged in a press conference Wednesday to seek an additional salary "step" for Little Rock Police Department officers to help with retention in Little Rock's 2022 budget, which would require city board approval. He also said he would propose doubling the sign-on bonus for new officers from $5,000 to $10,000. 

Children ages 5 to 11 could become eligible for COVID-19 vaccines within weeks, and Arkansas is getting ready.

A white column mansion in downtown Little Rock that was gifted to the city for the Arkansas Arts Center to use is falling into disrepair. Now the family says they want it back.

A 44-year-old Warren man is charged in the killing.

A settlement offer to survivors of Boy Scout sex abuse is simply not enough, an Arkansas attorney who represents some of the victims said.

A court filing in Pulaski County Circuit Court details the settlement awards in the Bradley Blackshire case.

Great story from KNWA on a Fayetteville woman who was asked by her property manager to allow tailgaters to use her bathroom. 

"All the Governor has to do is call a special session of the legislature with the Heartbeat Bill on the agenda and we will pass it," Rapert said. "We don’t need to wait on the U.S. Supreme Court for guidance."

The Little Rock Board of Directors, in a vote of 8-2, approved Vice-Mayor Lance Hines' ordinance that removes the director of planning and development from part of the redistricting process. The vote is the latest in an ongoing struggle for primacy between the mayor and the City Board.

The controversy surrounding a proposed settlement of a lawsuit against the city of Little Rock over the shooting death of Bradley Blackshire spilled into public view at Tuesday's Little Rock Board of Directors meeting.

Over to you...

How low can they go? The governor wants tax cuts; some Republicans want to cut all the way to zero. Some perspective...

The West Memphis Police Department has been ordered to respond to a Freedom of Information Act request sent by Patrick Benca, an attorney representing Damien Echols. 

Governor Hutchinson outlined his tax-cut agenda, but announced that the special session will be delayed. Plus the daily COVID-19 update and some modifications to COVID quarantine policies in K-12 schools.

Don't tell the Arkansas legislature, but Henderson State University students aren't hung up on gender identity.

The Counter has a good report on troubling working conditions at a Mountaire Farms poultry plant in Robeson County, North Carolina. Mountaire Farms, the fourth largest poultry producer in the nation, is owned by Ronald Cameron of Little Rock, a reclusive mega-donor to Republican politicians, including millions to organizations that backed Donald Trump.

It happened over the weekend and continued to disturb broadcast at least through yesterday.

Eat Meat Man.

A rooftop birthday in the spa city.