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Candidates in District 36 special election prioritize education, health care

Early voting began Tuesday in the special election to fill the House seat of former District 36 representative and House minority leader Charles Blake, who resigned in May to become Mayor Frank Scott Jr.’s chief of staff. Blake had served in the House since 2014. Five Democrats are running to fill the vacancy, and all say they are focused on improving quality of life and access to resources for residents of the large district that incorporates downtown east of Main Street south to the southeastern boundary of Pulaski County.
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Line forms for House District 36 seat in special election

Gov. Asa Hutchinson hasn't yet set an election date for the special election to fill the House District 36 seat vacated by Democrat Charles Blake, but a line is forming for Democratic candidates to succeed him.
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Charles Blake resigning from House to pursue 'other career opportunities,' perhaps mayor's staff

John Moritz of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that Rep. Charles Blake (D-Little Rock) is resigning from the Arkansas House "to explore other career opportunities."

House rejects bills to limit minimum wage increase

Two bills sponsored by Rep. Robin Lundstrum (R-Elm Springs) to undo substantial portions of the minimum wage hikes approved by voters in November were voted down easily Monday in the Arkansas House of Representatives.
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Bill aims to decriminalize possession of a small amount of marijuana

This late in the session, the chances of passage of new bills are problematic, but here's one worth a note all the same: Rep. Charles Blake proposes to further sharply reduce penalties for possession of less than an ounce of marijuana.

House committee again defeats bill to change symbols on Arkansas flag

The Confederacy again won the Civil War in a House committee this morning.
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Charles Blake provides context for the flag bill debate; and here comes Rapert

Rep. Charles Blake (D-Little Rock) will try again Wednesday morning to pass his bill that would say in statute that a fourth blue star added to the Arkansas flag in 1924 stands for the state's rich Indian heritage, not for the Confederacy.

Flag bill survives killing motion UPDATE

The House State Agencies Committee this morning declined to approve a motion by Rep. Jack Ladyman (R-Jonesboro) to table Rep. Charles Blake's HB 1736 to redesignate the symbols of the stars on the Arkansas flag to eliminate the Confederacy as underpinning one star.
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Governor announces support for nixing link to Confederacy in designation of star on state flag

Here's a pleasant surprise: The AP reports that Governor Hutchinson today stated that he supports an effort by Rep. Charles Blake to legally re-designate the symbolism of a star on the Arkansas state flag, which currently honors the Confederacy. "

The roll call to preserve a Confederate tribute in Arkansas flag. It's about slavery, said a lone Republican dissenter

Here's the roll call on the vote this morning defeating Rep. Charles Blake's cost-free but dramatically symbolic bill to say in law that one of the stars on the Arkansas flag (a flag designed in the white supremacy days of the early 20th century to resemble the Confederate flag) no longer represented the Confederacy. The committee, in short, refused to strip an emblem of the defense of slavery from the state flag.
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The South rises again: Confederate symbolism preserved on state flag

KARK's Jessi Turnure reports that Rep. Charles Blake's bill to legally ascribe a star on the Arkansas flag to the state's Indian heritage rather than its participation in the Confederacy was defeated in House committee this morning.

GOP offers no apologies for Brandt Smith's racial remark

KATV followed up on responses to the Democratic Party's call for apologies for Republican Rep. Brandt Smith's ugly remark about Democratic Rep. Charles Blake after Blake introduced legislation to redefine the symbols on the Arkansas flag to omit the Confederacy. In short: No apologies.
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