Politicians choosing their voters
Which party will control the U.S. House of Representatives after the November elections? It becomes harder to predict each time a state redraws its congressional district map.
Category: Politics
Andrew DeMillo: Republicans say Arkansas tax cuts won’t cause chaos. The next year will put that to the test.
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
Commentary: Watch your (special) language: Arkansas lawmakers need to rein in strings attached to budget bills
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.
What happens to a country of contempt?
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.
Sanders’ State of the State shows what will pass
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.
Rep. Womack: Biggest threat not Iran, China or debt
“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?’ …
Andrew DeMillo: Close secretary of state runoff points to fissures and future fights for Arkansas Republicans
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.”