Max Brantley

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Max Brantley

Politico reports: CDC sharply faults Arkansas on COVID-19 response

Sierra Club endorses Joyce Elliott for Congress

The early line on Little Rock city board candidates

Reuters explores judicial misbehavior, beginning with a former judge in Arkansas

UPDATE: Rutledge still working to deprive Arkansans of Medicaid coverage

School boards debating masks and more and coping with a change in start date

Supreme Court lifts stay on federal executions; Daniel Lee executed this morning.

Today’s news and the open line

ACLU announces new complaint on state prisons’ failure to cope with coronavirus pandemic

Little Rock School District will require masks after all