Scott Trotter, a local attorney who helped write Issue 3 and who currently serves as a kind of volunteer advisor to the misnamed Independent Citizens Committee, said during the panel discussion that one of his suggestions to the committee would be to make taxpayers pay for legislators’ meals in the future.
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Over the weekend, Republicans at their party convention voted to oppose an upcoming “ethics reform” ballot measure in 2014 that waters down term limits for state legislators.
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Tonight, in the Jonesboro special Senate election runoffs, John Cooper (R) and Steve Rockwell (D) defeated their opponents to advance
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I favor stronger ethics laws; you favor stronger ethics laws; we all favor stronger ethics laws — even Hudson Hallum
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There has been a lot of talk in the Arkansas blogosphere about the proposed ethics reforms being proposed by ‘Regnat
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The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s Mike Wickline continues his fine tradition of digging into the tangled web of state Treasurer Martha Shoffner’s
Read moreThe state’s editorialists continue to react to my proposals to expand our Freedom of Information Act rights (see previous posts
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Under Siege: If you’ve been overseas for several months and are just returning this morning, you should know that the
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(Guest post from Rep. Dan Greenberg) On Thursday, the Arkansas Times speculated about the influence exercised over me by the
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The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette dusts off the old “legislators turn into lobbyists” story, which runs every two years like clockwork and
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