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?
Mike Beebe
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Why Democrats aren’t winning elections in Arkansas (and how the tide could turn)
Republicans hold legislative supermajorities, all six federal positions and every statewide elected office. Most counties are as Republican today as they were Democratic barely a decade ago. So what happened?
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Arkansas printmaker and professor Evan Lindquist dies at 87
Lindquist’s influential works were called “metaphors of the mind” by one reviewer. The Salina, Kansas, native was named Arkansas’s first Artist Laureate in 2013, and taught art at Arkansas State University for 40 years. Lindquist excelled outside of the classroom as well as in it; he was a renowned figure on the landscape of American printmaking, and his works are in permanent collections across the world.
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Emails offer clues — but raise more questions — regarding state Parks chief’s mysterious departure
Emails reveal Mike Mills tried for almost two weeks to arrange a meeting with the governor before his abrupt departure on June 2.
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Stop the presses! Republican endorses Republican for governor
Shocking? Not exactly.
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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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Mike Beebe endorses Joyce Elliott
And Elliott isn’t attacking any of the former governor’s decisions, unlike her opponent.
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Premiering: Doc on Gov. Beebe: Correction and update
Mike Beebe, who carried all 75 counties in 2010 in his first gubernatorial campaign, is the subject of a documentary to be screened Aug. 21 at CALS Ron Robinson Theater.
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Mike Beebe weighs in on preserving his private option plan
Former Gov. Mike Beebe urges Arkansans to call senators to defeat the Graham-Cassidy health bill, which he says would be devastating to the Arkansas economy and the hundreds of thousands of people helped by the Medicaid expansion under Obamacare.
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Beebe added to anti-casino group
The Oaklawn- and Southland-backed group opposing an amendment allowing three more casinos in Arkansas announced today that former Gov. Mike Beebe is on their side.