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Re: Redacted Mueller report to be released after Barr news conference
- REUTERS OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE: WHY NO EXONERATION? ---Perhaps the biggest political risk for Trump is…
- Posted by Cato1
- on April 18, 2019
Re: Redacted Mueller report to be released after Barr news conference
- The release by Barr is a covering for trumps butt and a cooperating performance To…
- Posted by Going for the record
- on April 18, 2019
Re: Buffalo River makes endangered list again
- Gonna need some factual citations for all those claims, John. Especially that one regarding the…
- Posted by wannabee conservative
- on April 18, 2019

Federal officials acknowledge that Hutchinson's bureaucratic trainwreck in Medicaid caused significant coverage losses

In a new court filing, the Trump administration blames the state's ill-conceived requirement that Medicaid beneficiaries report their work activities only via a glitchy website for the massive loss of coverage that followed. The Trump administration is trying to salvage the state's Medicaid work requirement, recently blocked by a federal judge, but its filing yesterday serves as a final rebuke to the web-only reporting requirement that the Hutchinson administration once strongly defended.
Reality bites at Little Rock City Hall; spending must be cut

A followup to Rebekah Hall's earlier report on Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott Jr.'s announcement that cuts will be necessary in the city budget in part to pay for "priorities," such as his desire to expand the police force, but also to deal with the reality often mentioned here of stagnant to decling city sales tax revenue. Some quick ideas on that:
Satanic Arkansas's show at Vino's to donate proceeds to Planned Parenthood in Sen. Rapert's name

A group called Satanic Arkansas is throwing a concert at Vino's this Saturday night, with all proceeds going to the reproductive health care nonprofit in Sen. Jason Rapert's name.
Buffalo River makes endangered list again

Arkansas's Buffalo River has again made a list it's best not to make — an annual report from America's Most Endangered Rivers.
Open line

It's yours.

There went the neighborhood

Airport expansion, empty lots and Little Rock's fading East End.

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