Asa Hutchinson is polling at about 1% against the Donald Trump-dominated field of Republican presidential hopefuls, but he’s trying to stake an anti-Trump, more moderate lane, and a lot of national media eat that up.
Lindsey Millar
Lindsey Millar is the editor of the Arkansas Times and the founder of the Arkansas Nonprofit News Network.
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Ammonia leaks at Tyson Foods plants focus of CNN investigation
The report focuses on Mimi Perkins, who worked the graveyard shift at Tyson plant in Hope in 2016. After a pipe weld in the factory ruptured, filling the room where she was working with ammonia gas, she got trapped in the factory for about 40 minutes. She heard a paramedic describe her as “DOA,” and has undergone several throat surgeries and cornea transplants since then.
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Checking in on the families of trans kids challenging the state’s ban on gender-affirming care
Tess Vrbin of the Arkansas Advocate checks in with the plaintiffs in the federal lawsuit challenging Arkansas’s first in the nation gender-affirming care ban. It’s a reminder of the absolute horror show Arkansas Republicans are putting trans kids and their families through.
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State Supreme Court rejects lower court decision on penalties levied against tax cheat Mickey Gates
The Arkansas Supreme Court has reversed a lower court judgment against former state Rep. Mickey Gates, Republican of Hot Springs, who was expelled from the House in 2019 after pleading no contest to felony charges of failure to pay income tax.
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Pornhub blocks all Utah users in protest of ID requirement, likely a sign of what’s to come in Arkansas
Pornhub, one of the most popular websites in the United States, has blocked all visits to its site from users with Utah-based IP addresses in protest of that state’s age-verification requirement for porn websites. The new law, which went into effect today, is similar to one recently passed in Arkansas and others under consideration in about a dozen states.
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Student sentenced to jail for protesting Conway School Board’s anti-trans policies gets national attention
The case of Alex Barnett, the University of Central Arkansas junior who was sentenced to 10 days in jail and fined $650 for peacefully protesting the Conway School Board’s anti-trans policies, gets a long look today from journalist Judd Legum on his Popular Information Substack.
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Newark’s Austin Reaves getting lots of love with the Lakers
If you care about NBA basketball, we’re in a magical stretch with games to watch every night for the next many weeks.
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Kiley Reid has written a novel set at the University of Arkansas
Kiley Reid, whose debut novel “Such a Fun Age” was a bestseller, spent a year living and working in Fayetteville between college and getting her MFA at the University of Iowa. She worked at the now defunct Blackboard Grocery and started writing “Such a Fun Age” in Arsaga’s.
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A look at the strike at a Van Buren Tyson plant
Tyson workers in Van Buren went on strike earlier this month after they were notified that the plant would close May 12, which will affect almost 1,000 employees. Writing for Facing South, Arkansas native Olivia Paschal and University of Arkansas student journalist Rachell Sanchez-Smith interviewed Van Buren workers who participated in the strike.
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Eli Cranor wins Edgar Award
Eli Cranor, the Pope County crime fiction writer, took home an Edgar Award on Thursday. The Edgar Awards are the crime and mystery genres most prestigious awards. Cranor won Best First Novel By An American Author for “Don’t Know Tough,” his 2022 debut.