Voters in three currently "dry" areas of northern Pulaski County decided in special elections today whether to allow on-premise alcohol sales. The news for booze looked good.
Prosecuting Attorney Scott Ellington of Jonesboro has asked the State Police to investigate potential irregularities in voter registration in a Greene County township with a wet-dry issue on the ballot.
Circuit Judge Phil Smith ruled today in Pocahontas that a petition drive to call a local option alcohol election in Randolph County had fallen short of the signature threshold. NEA Report has the full rundown.
Liquor stores, particularly county line liquor stores that profit from neighboring dry counties, hope to kill a statewide alcohol sales initiative in a challenge before the Arkansas Supreme Court. But they are already at work, too, with a campaign to persuade voters to oppose the constitutional amendment to end local option dry areas.
Arkansas county judges have adopted a resolution in opposition to the proposed constitutional amendment that would legalize alcohol sales in all 75 Arkansas counties.
If you didn't understand the specifics, you might find irony in the fact that Arkansas liquor stores have contributed $1.2 million — so far — to an effort to defeat a proposed constitutional amendment to allow retail alcohol sales in all 75 counties.
A Walmart-funded campaign to put local option alcohol measures on three ballots is dropping its effort in Faulkner and Craighead counties, but hoping for a ballot spot in Saline County.
New polling from the campaign to legalize alcohol sales in all 75 Arkansas counties shows support for the measure and, in an added question, a two-point lead for Mark Pryor in the race for U.S. Senate.
Today's the deadline for canvassers to turn in additional signatures to get local option alcohol sales measures on the ballot in Craighead and Saline Counties. A leader of a statewide alcohol option campaign also reports favorable poll numbers on the effort.
The drive to put a minimum wage increase on the November ballot is roughly 15,000 signatures short of the 62,507 signatures of registered voters necessary to qualify the initiated act for the ballot.