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Arkansas health care workers support national call to protect IVF

Arkansas doctors have joined a nationwide network of health care professionals working to protect in vitro fertilization access after last month’s Alabama Supreme Court ruling that paused IVF services in the state.
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Allegations against Ark. corrections board member raise questions for Gov. Sanders' father — and Trump

Do Republicans calling on Alonza Jiles to resign over allegations he knew about sexual assaults at the Lord's Ranch believe Ted Suhl, a Huckabee family favorite, is guilty?
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Tax turnaround: Ark. marijuana revenue is paying for some school meals.

A change to medical marijuana tax uses has brought relief at school cafeterias.

Best and Worst 2023

Here's the thing about 2023: You have to grade it on a curve. Things weren’t great; they could have been a whole lot worse.
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Teens at two Little Rock high schools are leading the charge against period poverty

Menstrual equity in the making, thanks to the Arkansas Period Poverty Project.

Joyce Elliott, Mary Bentley, Skip Rutherford and others to debate at health panel tomorrow

Vaccine boosters, the Freedom of Information Act and maternal mortality are up for lively debate at tomorrow's health and wellness expo, featuring Skip Rutherford, Joyce Elliott and state legislators.
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What did the legislature do to help maternal health in Arkansas? Next to nothing.

Now that abortion is illegal in nearly every instance in Arkansas, surely state legislators were gung-ho to pass laws in the recently concluded session to make sure pregnant mothers and newborns have more support, right? 

Arkansas won’t hear bill to help new moms on Medicaid as maternal mortality rates in America worsen

With abortion banned in Arkansas and women more at risk of dying during their pregnancy or shortly after giving birth than ever, the Arkansas legislature instead spent time on an education overhaul, a plan to pack prisons and the ugly side of a culture war against vulnerable trans Arkansans.
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House panel backs resolution to lower fee for marijuana cards, extend length to two years

A House committee passed yesterday a resolution that asks the state Department of Health to lower costs for medical marijuana cards and extend them from one year to two years. A bill to allow cardholders to be eligible for concealed carry permits also passed the House yesterday and a bill to ban Delta-8 products is on the House calendar today.

The spaceport bill is blasting its way through the Arkansas Capitol

A bill for the study on a spaceport in Arkansas is skyrocketing through the Capitol as legislators give their OK. The study is contingent on funds, and a budget meeting Monday is expected to discuss a slated $950,000 toward the study.
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To infinity and beyond? Legislators file a bill about Arkansas space travel

A new bill filed in the Arkansas legislature would call for the state's economic development commission to conduct a study that would determine if a spaceport is feasible.

Things get wild in House committee, ballot initiative bill advances

Committee members consider Donald Trump, Mar-a-Lago, election security, the Commonwealth of Nations and more. And Rep. Aaron Pilkington (not a member of the Illuminati, regardless of what you might have heard) threatened to cut off his own hand.
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