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• Attorney General Rutledge rejects full marijuana legalization ballot initiative

  Speaking of weed, Attorney General Leslie Rutledge today rejected a proposed ballot initiative to fully legalize marijuana in the state.

• The yawning teacher pay gap between Arkansas school districts

  Before Arkansas congratulates itself for outpacing Oklahoma on teacher pay, we should take a look at the huge disparity in salaries within the state. New teachers in Bentonville may make almost $46,000 a year, but new teachers in many other districts will start the 2018-19 school year earning $31,800 — less than the starting salary in Tulsa.

• Anonymous Harding University students relaunch LGBTQ publication, campus security removes copies

  A group of anonymous Harding University students on Friday published an "HU Queer Press 2.0" zine, covering issues of gay rights at the private, Churches of Christ-affiliated campus in Searcy. A similar publication, "The State of the Gay at Harding University," set off a firestorm of controversy at Harding seven years ago. Shortly after the publication was distributed, campus security officers began gathering the copies of the zine and throwing them in the trash.

• Finally, a memorial to the 21 boys who were burned to death at Wrightsville in '59

  It has been 59 years since 21 teen-aged boys incarcerated at the so-called Negro Boys Industrial School were burned to death in their locked dormitory. The Times wrote about the event in 2008, after the brother and mother of one of the boys approached the Times looking for someone to remember the event, and headlined the story "Stirring the Ashes." But on Saturday, a monument to the boys was placed at Haven of Rest Cemetery, where 14 of the boys were buried.

• Lake View mandate on school funding 'probably' still stands despite sovereign immunity ruling, lawmakers told

  The Supreme Court's recent ruling on sovereign immunity probably won't undo Lake View, attorneys from the Bureau of Legislative Research said. But it could halt future cases on education funding, depending on what precedents the court sets in the coming months.

Most Recent Comments

• Re: Lake View mandate on school funding 'probably' still stands despite sovereign immunity ruling, lawmakers told

  • The Arkansas Not-so-Supreme's sovereign immunity ruling on a 5-2 vote continues to reveal the inability…

  • Posted by Sound Policy
  • on April 24, 2018

• Re: Trump's popularity among Arkansas Republicans remains overwhelmingly high

  • Arkansas voters stupid in 2016. Still stupid in 2018.

  • Posted by wannabee conservative
  • on April 24, 2018

• Re: Trump's popularity among Arkansas Republicans remains overwhelmingly high

  • Just goes to show you can fool almost all the @BoneSpurDonald supporters all of the…

  • Posted by Sound Policy
  • on April 24, 2018

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