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Leadership changes announced at DHS

I've been asking DHS for two days about reports that Dawn Stehle was being elevated at DHS to the deputy director's job being vacated by Mark White. The non-response was telling. The news release is even more telling of the unhappy Republicans that tipped me on this change in the first place.
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Asa's team

It's a measure of Gov. Asa Hutchinson's appointments that the most widely praised appointment so far was of a man ineligible to hold the job.
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Hutchinson names division chiefs at Human Services

Gov. Asa Hutchinson named four top officials at the Department of Human Services today, including David Sterling, who made an unsuccessful Republcian primary runoff race for attorney general against winner Leslie Rutledge, herself a former DHS lawyer.

Today in Arkansas: Another victory for LGBT rights, but state politicians plan to fight against equality

Max talks about President Obama's plan to extend employment discrimination protection to LGBT employees of federal contractors and subcontractors, the Razorback Foundation running a deficit, a haunting story of domestic violence in Arkansas, UALR's investigation into former baseball coach Scott Norwood and more.
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Video: Key takeaways from the runoff elections

Does Leslie Rutledge's victory mean that stand your ground isn't a sellable commodity in Arkansas? Or that Arkansas voters don't approve of outside political spending? Does Scott Flippo's victory over Rep. John Burris mean the private option is finished? Max answers these questions and more.

An election night for the Republican fringe: Cantor loses, Flippo beats Burris. But Rutledge wins attorney general nomination

An upset for an extremist Republican in Virginia and a couple of runoffs featuring extremist Republicans in Arkansas are the big election excitement tonight.
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Dark money source tells FEC to stuff it

The Federal Election Commission has hit a stone wall in attempting to get financial backing information from the American Future Fund, a dark money group that has spent heavily in the Republican race for attorney general.

Today in Arkansas: Who loves guns most?

On today's show: The runoff election for attorney general between David Sterling and Leslie Rutledge, guns in Arkansas and elsewhere, John Boozman returning to work, a judge denying Exxon's bid to have the federal/state lawsuit over the Mayflower spill tossed and Hendrix's new president and Godzilla.
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Attorney general sues payday lenders

Attorney General Dustin McDaniel keeps after the payday lenders. He announced today he had sued three online lenders for illegally making loans with interest rates as high as 782 percent in Arkansas. Defendants are two individuals and three companies, all from Kansas.

Vote for my candidate or else

Need some guidance on the Republican runoff for attorney general? If gun nuts and extreme-right backbench legislators are your cup of tea, the choice is clear.
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The Can't Stop Talking About Jason Rapert Edition

Walmart’s annual meeting and all that surrounds it, the coming runoff elections for the Republican nomination for attorney general and Senate District 17, the battle brewing over booze in Arkansas and the man that no matter how hard we try we can’t seem to escape—Jason Rapert. All covered in this week's edition.

Payday lender turns up among GOP attorney general hopeful's supporters

Leslie Rutledge, in the runoff for the Republican nomination for attorney general, is calling down her opponent David Sterling for taking a campaign contribution from a payday lender.
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