Another former Republican legislator, Andy Davis of Little Rock, has landed a fat lobbying job. He’d already been on the state government teat, a goal of many small-government Republicans. He’ll […]
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Things get messy during last day of witness testimony for Arkansas gerrymandering hearing
On the last day of witness testimony in a hearing about new state legislative lines, Republicans hired to do the mapping talk about what their priorities were. Amplifying the Black vote didn’t really come up.
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The Rutledge Report, Part 1: Where there’s a dole there’s a Doyle. And a friend on a high court.
More attention to Attorney General Leslie Rutledge’s profligate spending of public money on partisan featherbedding.
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Rutledge gets out in front of legislative redistricting process UPDATE
Let the gerrymanders begin!
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Big tobacco’s Trojan Horse legislation could have been worse
A new national development illustrates — again — just how much influence big tobacco had on legislation to provide money for a cancer research institute at UAMS.
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Where there’s smoke: There’s the tobacco lobby with one last legislative handout
A fitting coda for this special interest-dominated legislative session is — another — piece of legislation to help the tobacco lobby.
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Tobacco bill to be withdrawn
I noted on the House agenda today an item that says Rep. Andy Davis (R-Little Rock) plans to withdraw his bill that purported to provide funding for a cancer research institute at UAMS.
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West Little Rock politicians press for expansion of Pinnacle middle school to high school
Republican politicians have banded together to push for expansion of the Pinnacle View middle school on Highway 10 into high school grades to serve western Little Rock.
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The week’s lowlights
Andy Davis has spent much of his taxpayer-paid time in the legislature working on legislation to make easier the lives of people who operate plants he sells and who dump materials in waterways.
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Income inequality? Don’t look around here for a fix
With the pope calling for lifting the world’s impoverished, the Arkansas governor and legislature are hard at work looking for ways to further oppress them.