Fraud-Ridden Minimum Wage Issue OK’d by Supreme Court

The Arkansas Supreme Court, in its opinion yesterday, removed the final obstacle to a statewide vote on hiking the minimum wage. One startling aspect of the Court’s decision is that it appeared to tolerate — and, thus, to encourage — a significant level of petition fraud.

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Flippo Defeats Burris In Senate Runoff, Rutledge Advances To General Election

We’ll have more tomorrow on the results of tonight’s state Republican runoff elections, but I wanted to pass along these vote totals before calling it a night.

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Primary Runoff Day Is Here

Results for the primary runoffs — such as the GOP nomination for State Senate District 17 (State Rep. John Burris vs. Scott Flippo) and Attorney General (Leslie Rutledge vs. David Sterling) — will be announced tonight.

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Does David Sterling Have A “Duty To Retreat” From Outside Group’s "Stand Your Ground" Ads?

Rutledge has used JCN’s mailers as grounds for attacks against the group and her Republican opponent in the June 10th runoff. But are any of these attacks merited?

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Tuesday Night’s Best Performances

Last night was a big night for a lot of Republican candidates across the state. There were plenty of surprises

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