Article notes Attorney General Leslie Rutledge's legal pressure to strike down a Fayetteville ordinance that prohibits discrimination, including on sexual orientation and gender.
A lawsuit was filed today seeking ain injunction to halt the special election scheduled Sept. 8 in Fayetteville on a city civil rights ordinance referred by the City Council to voters.
Slide the City, a traveling water carnival that sets up events in which they unfurl a 1,000-foot-long, padded, dual-lane, side-bumpered mega-version of the old Slip'N Slide down the middle of a city street, is coming to Little Rock and Fayetteville soon. So says their website, anyway. No word yet on a date, but pages for both cities are currently open for pre-registration.
The issue in Fayetteville Dec. 9 — to preserve legal discrimination against gay people or not. Starkville, Miss., adopted the very ordinance now up for debate in Fayetteville and the result, based on a New York Times article Saturday, has been good for the city.
Runoff municipal elections in Bryant and Fayetteville hold interest tonight. Republicans have made the nonpartisan mayor's race in Bryant all about the GOP. In Fayetteville, it's a progressive champion, Adella Gray, against a Duggar anti-gay candidate.
The group working to preserve Fayetteville's new civil rights ordinance has invited call-ins tonight for Fayetteville with questions about the ordinance, referred to the ballot in a special election Dec. 9.
A group working to preserve Fayetteville's historic city civil rights ordinance, with protection for gay people, has filed suit charging numerous irregularities in the petition process to call a referendum on the election. It wants the election voided.
The Washington County Election Commission has approved language some have called confusing for a ballot measure to repeal Fayetteville's LGBT civil rights ordinance that prohibits housing and business discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender.
On the second day of his two-day homecoming tour, former President Bill Clinton is speaking in Fayetteville, where a crowd of around 6,000 is watching him make the pitch for Democrats.
Petitions were submitted today in Fayetteville by proponents of legal discrimination against gay people. They want a special election on the city's new civil rights ordinance, which covers multiple classes of people but is controversial because of LGBT protection.
Word comes today that the Little Rock City Board will finally have a discussion on the Uber car service at its agenda meeting next week. A representative from Uber will talk. The local cab franchise holder, who opposes Uber operation here, will talk. No proposal is on the table yet.