A new Ten Commandments monument will be erected on state Capitol grounds next week, Sen. Jason Rapert (R-Conway) reports on his Facebook page. Rapert sponsored the enabling legislation and created the American History & Heritage Foundation to pay for it.
The University of Arkansas and the city of Fayetteville announced today their support for the Wind Catcher Energy Connection Project, an Oklahoma panhandle wind farm that will deliver power to Northwest Arkansas.
At least four separate legal challenges to the state's ban have now been filed by groups of farmers in four northeast Arkansas counties — Phillips, Mississippi, Greene and Clay — who want to use the herbicide
A video uploaded to Facebook shows members of the Chi Omega sorority and Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity singing along to the song "Freaky Friday." The white students repeatedly shout along to the n-word.
In the next year and a half to two years, the 16 acres at the northwest corner of University Avenue and Interstate 630, the old Sears site, will transform into a development featuring retail, restaurants and a hotel — or two — called The District at Midtown.
Then-state senator and Senate president pro tempore Michael Lamoureux insisted that a state organization that distributed GIF funds approve a grant to Ecclesia College despite problems with the college's application, a witness in the public corruption trial of former Sen. Jon Woods testified today.
The second charter is Friendship Public Charter Schools, which was planning to open its first campus in Little Rock for the 2019-20 school year in a different location. Now, Friendship appears to instead be aiming to open this August — that is, in time for the upcoming 2018-19 school year.
Time is ticking for you to get the best deal on tickets to the Arkansas Times Second Annual Margarita Festival, presented by Don Julio, the world's first ultra-premium tequila.
Griffen believes that racial animus played a role in the Court's action: "I challenged the permanent ban because it resulted from conspiracy by the justices of the Arkansas Supreme Court and others to deprive me of the powers of my elected office based on animosity against me because I am African-American."
The Cook Political Report, essentially a fantasy baseball website for people who enjoy politics instead of sports, offered a relatively encouraging outlook for Democrats in the state's Second Congressional District today. The site announced that it was shifting the district from "Likely R" to "Lean R." Get excited.
State Sen. Trent Garner, a free speech skeptic and drudging demagogue, has once again called for the impeachment of Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen. If 34 House members sign on to a resolution, impeachment proceedings would proceed. Rep. Bob Ballinger is already on board. A look at the controversy, how the impeachment process works, and the response from House Speaker Jeremy Gillam.
Tatum, like other political hopefuls in Little Rock this year, is not technically a candidate just yet. However, she's formed an exploratory committee, which effectively means she intends to enter the race.
Judge Wendell Griffen again participates in death penalty vigil outside governor's mansion; Hog farm near Buffalo River, operating on expired permit, files application for new type of permit; UAMS reduces deficit by $32 million; Margarita Festival 2018 is May 10.
A tweet by Davy Carter, the former Republican speaker of the state House of Representatives and a resident Cabot alerted us to this NBC documentary on how a family in Lonoke County became radicalized by Nazis.
Out of 1,772 student respondents to a survey by the UA's Title IX coordinator in 2017, 266 indicated they had experienced sexual contact without their consent since becoming a student at the university — about 15 percent.
Interim Chancellor Stephanie Gardner told UAMS employees in a State of the University address Tuesday that UAMS has made up $32 million of an anticipated $72 million deficit and that the institution will present a zero deficit budget to the UA System Board of Trustees when it meets in May. She said no future layoffs are planned.
A 13,000-square-foot home at 2 Longfellow Lane was hit by lightning Friday night and firefighters were on the scene for five hours, from 11:19 p.m. to 4:17 a.m. Saturday morning, putting it out.
Interim Chancellor Stephanie Gardner told UAMS employees in a State of the University address Tuesday that UAMS has made up $32 million of an anticipated $72 million deficit and that the institution will present a zero deficit budget to the UA System Board of Trustees when it meets in May. She said no future layoffs are planned.
The University of Arkansas and the city of Fayetteville announced today their support for the Wind Catcher Energy Connection Project, an Oklahoma panhandle wind farm that will deliver power to Northwest Arkansas.
In the Bizarro World of the Trump administration, it's only fitting that the president serves as publicity director for James Comey's big book tour. (In the old Superman comics, Bizarro World was an upside-down reality where wickedness was virtue and vice versa.) Supposedly, Trump's stomping around the White House and various golf courses red-faced with anger, emitting smoke from his ears.
After the wildest week of the wildest presidency in history, the clouded future suddenly unfolds more clearly and, yes, nearer. That includes the end of the Trump presidency.
A video uploaded to Facebook shows members of the Chi Omega sorority and Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity singing along to the song "Freaky Friday." The white students repeatedly shout along to the n-word.