Arkansas legislators are seizing on reports of dirty tricks and intimidation from a 2022 battle over a Pope County casino as a reason to restrict the ballot initiative process.
The Central Arkansas Library System will file a federal lawsuit next week over a censorship law that targets libraries. Opponents had put out a siren call on Facebook this week, but it seems not many were listening.
The candidates for attorney general -- Republican Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin and Democrat Jesse Gibson -- agreed today that Arkansas' stringent abortion ban needs exceptions for victims of rape and incest but parted ways on whether the U.S. Supreme Court went too far in overturning the constitutionally protected right to abortion.
A class action lawsuit has been filed over the security breach in the pandemic unemployment assistance program and it names at least one person already allegedly victimized. It also seeks the lifting of hold on those locked out of system.