“These students on campuses deserve our contempt,” Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton said of college students protesting the ever-rising death count in Gaza.
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Most voucher students are not coming from public schools
Do vouchers mostly benefit kids coming from public schools, or those already in private school? A journey into the weeds of the academic debate on vouchers.
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Hester reelected as President of Senate as Legislature wraps up fiscal session; Chesterfield honored
Right-wing zealot and Sanders loyalist Bart Hester retains power in the Arkansas Senate, which also said goodbye to a legend today.
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Bloodthirsty Tom Cotton is going to get someone killed
Tom Cotton calls campus protests against the war in Gaza “cesspools” full of “fanatics and freaks.” It is OK to wage war on these kids, he’s implying. If something really goes wrong, and someone gets seriously hurt or killed — well, that life wasn’t valuable. Just some “lunatic.”
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Crypto bills pass House and head to the governor’s desk
Crypto at the Capitol comes to a quiet close: Two crypto regulation bills passed easily out of the House and will almost certainly be signed into law.
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Sanders and Republican legislators pour money into vouchers and tax cuts while crucial programs suffer
Total funding for two-year colleges was slashed by $848,319, a 0.72% cut compared to last year. Seven two-year colleges were hit with cuts of 2% or more.
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Crypto regulation bills advance out of House committee
As a House committee took up two crypto bills — co-sponsored by the same senators that pushed through the law last year they’re now trying to fix — one lawmaker summed it up: “This is almost an embarrassing situation.”
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Education Secretary Jacob Oliva spouts standard LEARNS talking points at Rotary Club
The governor’s favorite pitch man keeps selling LEARNS, but he skipped over a few details.
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Attorney General Tim Griffin adding positions and salary bumps to his grandstanding fiefdom
Budget bill gives AG Tim Griffin more staffers to help get himself on camera.
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Medicaid expansion could be coming to Mississippi with a dash of Arkansas-style policy, but hurdles remain
How much longer will the last refusenik states hold out on Medicaid expansion — passing up billions of dollars in federal money, cutting off their noses to spite Obama’s face?