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Arkansas Advocate: Federal judge blocks reworked state law restricting minors’ social media

By ANTOINETTE GRAJEDA | Arkansas Advocate A federal judge has temporarily blocked an Arkansas law set to take effect Tuesday that would have restricted minors’ social media access. Tech industry trade group NetChoice in January filed a lawsuit challenging Act 900 of 2025, which sought to amend a 2023 law found to be unconstitutional. The earlier law and the reworked version would have required age verification to create new social media accounts. A federal judge declared the 2023 law unconstitutional and permanently blocked it last year. In Monday’s 24-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks said NetChoice was likely to succeed on its vagueness challenge…

Stateline: Many states don’t report losses from data center tax breaks, study says

By KEVIN HARDY | Stateline Though public scrutiny of data centers is growing, 14 states do not disclose how much revenue they lose to data center tax breaks. That’s according to a new report from Good Jobs First, a watchdog group that focuses on economic development incentives. The lack of disclosure comes as other states record mounting losses in tax revenue to data center subsidies. Three states — Georgia, Virginia and Texas — report losing $1 billion or more per year to data center incentives, according to Good Jobs First. The study found that Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri,…

Data center eyes Clark County, set to buy mega site in $11M deal

DATA CENTER ON THE HORIZON? — The first slide of a presentation hints of a proposed data center that would be located about 5 miles south of Arkadelphia at the Southwest Arkansas Mega Site in Gum Springs. | arkadelphian.com photo by Joel Phelps By JOEL PHELPS | arkadelphian.com A data center could very well be coming to Clark County, Arkansas, following a vote Thursday, April 16, to sell the entire Southwest Arkansas Mega Site to an unnamed buyer. In a 90-minute special-called meeting of the Economic Development Corp. of Clark County, board members gave their unanimous approval to sell the…

4 named Stepping Up for Ouachita honorees

From the OBU News Bureau Ouachita Baptist University will host its 16th annual Stepping Up for Ouachita luncheon, presented by Citizens Bank, on Friday, Nov. 6, 2026, at Chenal Country Club in Little Rock. Doors open at 10:45 a.m., with lunch service beginning at 11:30 a.m. Ticket and sponsorship information is available at obu.edu/steppingup. The event will raise money for scholarships and honor four women: Dr. Kathy (Chapman) Collins, formerly of Arkadelphia, Arkansas, being honored posthumously; Julie (Hendrix) Dodge of Conway, Arkansas; Susan (Shambarger) Goss of Bentonville, Arkansas; and Cheryl (Bass) Williams of Roland, Arkansas. What began in 2010 as a…