The Republican Party of Saline County cited a failure to insure the property and a no-confidence vote regarding Tom Cotton and others as reasons for the eviction.
Lanny Fite
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Making Arkansas worse again
A pliable legislature stomped on the poor, indulged the rich and threw teachers, librarians, children and trans people under the bus, all because the MAGA governor told them to.
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Short-term rental bill dies in House committee
Regulating short-term rentals is a topic that gets people talking. A House committee heard testimony on Senate Bill 197 — which would have mostly prohibited municipalities from regulating Airbnbs and VRBO houses — for six hours before the legislature went on spring break. The same committee on Wednesday voted against the bill.
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Utility-favored bills to undercut solar industry pass House and Senate committees
Twin bills that would curtail Arkansas’s booming solar industry passed House and Senate committees on Thursday with no audible dissent.
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Bill that would kill Arkansas’s solar industry gets long look in committee
Two bills of massive import for Arkansas’s future remain up for discussion in interminable legislative committee meetings today. While Gov. Sanders’ Arkansas Learns proposal sucks up most of the oxygen at the state Capitol today, an equally sinister plan, which would kill the state’s booming solar industry, is under consideration before a House committee.
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Solar proponents continue to push back against bill that would wreck industry
The coalition of businesses, government entities, churches and more who have taken advantage of Arkansas’s favorable solar access law continues to rail against a proposed bill that would cripple the booming solar industry.
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Here comes a big showdown over Arkansas’s solar future
State Rep. Lanny Fite (R-Benton) and Sen. Jonathan Dismang (R-Searcy) have filed a new bill that would cripple Arkansas’s booming solar development.
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Saline Quorum Court won’t be able to vote on sheriff’s vacancy until Monday
Saline County Judge Lanny Fite has just told me that because of a glitch in the required notification procedure, the Saline Quorum Court won’t be able to vote today on a resolution declaring the office of sheriff vacant on Oct. 1.As you may recall, the on-off-on retirement of embattled Sheriff Bruce Pennington was announced to be on Friday afternoon.