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'Stephanie Flowers'

Secrecy, gadflies and sausage: Winners and losers of the 2023 special session

The biscuit at 500 Grill: 1, Rep. David Ray: 0.
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Arkansas Senate lets Alan Clark off the hook for 'spurious, frivolous and retaliatory' attack on a fellow legislator

Siding with the guilty white Republican man over the innocent and wronged Black Democratic woman is a horrible look, but we've come to expect nothing less from the Republican supermajority at the Arkansas Capitol.
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Bid to reinstate Clark's seniority in next General Assembly fails

A move to end the punishment of Sen. Alan Clark (R-Lonsdale) ahead of the next General Assembly failed in the Senate on Wednesday. 

Lawmakers clearing the way for Dolly Parton to send books to more young Arkansas readers

Why'd she come in here looking like that? To get a Dolly Parton-fueled reading program one step closer to more young readers in Arkansas, of course.
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Democrats propose bills to limit state takeover of school district, give municipalities first dibs at unused school buildings

Two new education bills aimed at promoting good governance seem likely to face an uphill battle solely because they're sponsored by Democrats. 

Arkansas Dems cry foul on fast and sneaky school voucher bill tactics

Dolling it up as school choice or parental empowerment doesn't change the reality. Vouchers do nothing to boost student achievement. It's just a fact. Despite that, Arkansas is getting ready to spend hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on vouchers.
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Senate passes bill that would limit sexy books in schools and create new librarian crime

Democratic Senators tried and failed to convince their co-legislators to vote against Dan Sullivan's bill that would limit sexy books and create a new law that would charge librarians, teachers and other adults if they allowed children access to controversial materials.

Senate committee OKs bill allowing government censorship, criminal charges for teachers and librarians

Among other things, Senate Bill 81 creates a new crime. Should this bill become law, it will be a misdemeanor for teachers and librarians to knowingly allow minors access to materials that include "nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, or sadomasochistic abuse."
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Senate committee OKs letting school employees defend themselves from violent students, tables effort to protect trans people from being murdered

Senators OK self defense for bus drivers and lunch ladies and a ban on drones for sex offenders, but stall on preventing murderers of transgender people from invoking a "panic defense."

Senators continue crusade on trans Arkansans, pass anti-drag show bill

"This bill is not about governing. It's about bullying," Sen. Clarke Tucker (D-Little Rock) said, to little effect. A measure to classify drag shows as adult-oriented businesses, thereby banning them from publicly owned property and any buildings close to schools, parks and churches, easily passed the Senate Tuesday.
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Senate affirms ethics violation by Sen. Alan Clark and suspends him from Senate for remainder of the year

Senate formally clears Sen. Stephanie Flowers of ethics complaint, but delays consideration of punishing Sen. Alan Clark for filing the complaint

A second ethics rebuke for Sen. Alan Clark delayed after several hours of discussion in Senate.
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