ICYMI: This week at the Arkansas State Capitol, March 6-10
JUVENILE JUSTICE: The House Judiciary Committee approved, by a voice vote, a Do Pass recommendation for SB 294 to establish the Fair Sentencing of Minors Act. It prohibits sentencing youth to life without […]
ARKids First turns 20!
Twenty years ago today, on March 10, 1997, then-Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee signed ARKids First into law. ARKids was Arkansas’s state-funded health insurance program, and bringing it to life was […]
Push and pull for payday lenders
Lenders who trap honest, hard-working people in never-ending cycles of debt are trying to weasel their way back into Arkansas. There is good legislation (SB658) from Sen. Jason Rapert that […]