A Note on Conduit for Commerce’s 2017 Legislative Rankings
Conduit for Commerce recently released its 2017 legislative rankings for Arkansas state legislators. Accountability is a wonderful thing, and we’re
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Article V Bills Moving Through Legislature
Both an Article V convention proposal and a balanced budget compact proposal passed out of the House State Agencies Committee Friday morning.
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UALR Chancellor Ignorant of UALR’s “Glance and Nod” Policies
As you’ve probably already heard, State Rep. Charlie Collins’s “Campus Carry” bill was narrowly defeated yesterday in the House Education Committee.
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Bill Aims To Handcuff Retaliatory Bureaucrats
Open government advocates should be pleased that a bill by State Rep. Nate Bell cleared a major hurdle today.
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Arkansas Needs More Accountability for Executive Sessions
A story in today’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette shows the need for more accountability in government bodies’ executive sessions, which are currently exempt from public scrutiny under Arkansas’s FOIA.
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Act 312 Stops Illegal Voter ‘Education’ in Texarkana
As we wrote in November, Act 312 prohibits government employees from using taxpayer-funded resources to influence the outcome of ballot measure elections.
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"There Is A Lot Wrong” With This Forbes Article, But Legislators Are Too Busy To Explain
Yesterday, Forbes published an insightful piece about the Arkansas Obamacare “private” option. The bottom line for Arkansas taxpayers: for the
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"Private" Option Play-Doh & Hospital Hoopla (Podcast)
This week on the show: KATV’s (awful) “Play-doh” analogy Broken promises of the “private” option Medicaid cuts delayed Employer mandate
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What On Earth Is Nate Bell Thinking?
Many observers of the “private” option’s passage through the legislative process were taken aback by Rep. Nate Bell’s amendment earlier
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Breaking Down The 2013 Freedom Scorecard (Podcast)
This week on the podcast, Dan gives us a quick Obamacare update and then we launch into a full rundown
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