Alexa Henning brought a mean-girl vibe to the governor’s office and seemed to revel in conflict.
Alexa Henning
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Questions arise over hiring process, qualifications of new deaf school superintendent
Sixty percent of the board only interviewed Walsh, whose resume pales in comparison to other candidates’, then voted to hire her two weeks later.
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The Stupidest Scandal: How a $19K lectern stole the show
Gov. Sarah Sanders has no one but herself to blame for lecterngate, the audit, and her office’s documented disregard for the law.
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Governor’s office mum after new poll shows wholesale drop in Sanders’ popularity
Morning Consult, a pollster Sanders’ spokesperson has touted repeatedly, shows a downward trend regardless of party affiliation.
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The queen’s gambit: Gov. Sanders and Co. play political games with overcrowded prisons
The governor’s plan to add more people to existing prisons, regardless of capacity or prison staffing, has her at loggerheads with the state Board of Corrections.
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Sanders won’t spill who paid for her Super Bowl trip, TPM reports
After Sanders shared social media posts about her family’s high-dollar Super Bowl trip, TPM set out to calculate how much it cost and who foot the bill. As if!
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Parole board chairman who had sex with minor resigns one week after appointment
Jamol Jones is out as chairman of the Post Prison Transfer Board.
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Sanders comms machine invokes God and the military to deflect from appointee’s teen sex scandal
Having sex with a teenager while working in law enforcement is not disqualifying for a position on Arkansas boards overseeing parole and prisons, according to statements from the governor’s office and appointee Jamol Jones.
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Chicken company closure results in dead birds, fight over responsibility
What do you do with a million dead chickens? Seriously, we’re asking.
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The Waltons, the first gentleman and the future of the Buffalo River
On Oct. 26, more than 1,000 people turned out for a community meeting at the school cafeteria in Jasper, an Ozarks town and home to about 500 residents. Almost 2,000 more watched the meeting online. But the big names of the night were absent: two grandsons of Walmart founder Sam Walton and the Arkansas governor’s husband, Bryan Sanders.