Arkansas Republicans pushing for tax cuts in recent years have portrayed Democrats as the Capitol’s version of Chicken Little, warning that the budgetary sky is falling any time there’s a reduction in revenue
Known in legislative jargon as “special language,” the strings lawmakers attach to budget bills used to be a dirty little secret of the Arkansas Legislature. They were a way to sneak major policy changes in without the public noticing.
How well can a nation based on being a representative democracy and a free market economy function when a majority of its citizens say their countrymen are immoral? We may find out in the coming decades.
One big difference between a president’s typical State of the Union address and Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ State of the State address April 8 is this: What the governor proposed will actually happen.
“It is the profound division in the body politic that prevents the legislative branch of the greatest country this world has ever known, that prevents that legislative body from doing its most basic function,” he said in Springdale Wednesday. “And then you have to ask, ‘How did we get here?’ …
Unlike many GOP nomination fights, the race for secretary of state wasn’t a battle over how far right the candidates could go. Neither Hammer nor Norris could be viewed as a moderate or “Republican in Name Only.”
The war that began in February when the United States and Israel struck Iran has led to rising gas and fertilizer prices, effects that could hit close to home for voters in Arkansas’ U.S. Senate race this fall
