Ernest Dumas writes more valuable Arkansas political history today. In it he explains — and makes a plausible case — that everything you know about passing an Arkansas appropriation might be wrong.
The Arkansas legislature opened its fiscal session today with a pro forma quick beginning. Bills, along with the dozens of appropriation bills, include some renegates — the Common Core deterrent I mentioned earlier; an effort to do something to correct new feral hog legislation (which apparently may be considere
If nine Tea Party senators (or 26 retrograde House members) defeat reauthorization of private option expansion of Medicaid under Obamcare, the toll will be tens of thousands of working poor Arkansans, stripped of health insurance they just received.
It takes three days to pass a law in Arkansas, so the House and Senate convened at 12:01 a.m. today to finish action on a package of bills to mitigate a big increase in the cost of health insurance for public school employees.
Roby Brock at Talk Business has rounded up some of the ideas being floated in private meetings with the governor, legislators and school people on finding a solution for big health insurance premium increases set to batter Arkansas public school teachers Jan. 1.Having read his article, I despair of a solution.
A big crowd has gathered at the Capitol this morning so that legislators may demonstrate their concern for aggrieved public school teachers facing enormous health insurance rate increases.
Might there be an object lesson for the Arkansas Republican Party in this public opinion polling from North Carolina, where right-wing Republican control has, as in Arkansas, produced a steady diet of hard-right legislation straight from the party playbook.
The line is open. Final thoughts:
* MORE MONEY FOR OBAMACARE: A legislative committee voted 23-9 today to continue accepting federal money to plan for implementation of federal health care expansion.