I wrote a column this week about what's known so far about Gov. Asa Hutchinson's plans to "transform government" by combining state agencies into fewer departments answering to the governor. Now comes a state employee with more insight on possible motivation.
I have been making information requests around state to government to get an inkling of what Gov. Asa Hutchinson intends to announce about reorganizing state government in the name of efficiency. This morning, an idea on that subject from Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr, unearthed by an FOI request.
The Democrat-Gazette's MIchael Wickline today quoted Gov. Asa Hutchinson as saying he hoped to rejoin the Correction Department and Community Correction Department, a merger forecast here back in July when Sheila Sharp was sacked as boss of Community Correction. Brother, that ain't all the governor has in mind.