The 2022 effort to cut Craighead County libraries' funding had more support in the rest of the county than in the city of Jonesboro.| Arkansas Advocate
Garland County Judge Darryl Mahoney on Friday ordered that a proposal to reduce the property tax funding the local library not be placed on the November ballot because the petition is deficient.| Arkansas Advocate
Many speakers said the ballot language would confuse people into voting for the measure even if they do not actually support defunding the library.| Arkansas Advocate
A new federal food assistance program, Summer EBT provides eligible children with $120 on a pre-loaded card to purchase groceries during a critical time of the year when students lose reliable meals at school.| Arkansas Advocate
Montana joins nine other states who this November will vote on whether to explicitly protect the right to terminate a pregnancy in their state’s constitution.| Arkansas Advocate
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday slashed the Biden administration’s latest efforts to provide student debt relief to millions of borrowers to go forward while the appeals process unfolds.| Arkansas Advocate
A lot of folks have swallowed the canard that voter fraud is rampant and that the machines that tally their votes can’t be trusted.| Arkansas Advocate
Saline County Judge Matt Brumley said the necessary budget for hand-counting ballots could exceed $750 million more than what elections currently cost the county.| Arkansas Advocate
Adjusting for the U.S. Supreme Court’s sweeping presidential immunity decision last month, U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday filed a fresh federal indictment alleging former President Donald Trump attempted to overturn the 2020 election in his favor.| Arkansas Advocate
Nine lawsuits have been filed so far this month over failed ballot-counting petitions in Arkansas counties. A group opposed to using ballot machines to count votes has tried to put forth ballot petitions across the state that would ban voting machines and requiring votes be counted by hand. Nine hand-counting petitions were thrown out over […]| Arkansas Advocate
Arizonan Chris Love discussed her history of advocacy, pregnancy loss and why it’s important to say the word “abortion."| Arkansas Advocate
A newly formed group asked the Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday to disqualify an anti-casino ballot measure that Secretary of State John Thursday approved Wednesday.| Arkansas Advocate
Arkansans for Patient Access collected 85% of the required number of valid signatures from registered voters and has until Aug. 30 to submit more.| Arkansas Advocate
Supporters of four proposed Arkansas ballot measures delivered petitions to the Secretary of State at the Capitol on Friday in hopes they will be certified for November’s statewide ballot.| Arkansas Advocate
An applicant for the Pope County casino license filed a lawsuit Tuesday asking the court to invalidate the recently-awarded permit because the license holder’s requisite letters of support from local government were “coercively issued.”| Arkansas Advocate
Thurston denied that his office told the ballot question committee on July 4 that submitting another sponsor affidavit “was not required.”| Arkansas Advocate
Secretary of State John Thurston must “file an answer to the original action petition” by 9 a.m. Monday, the court ordered Friday.| Arkansas Advocate
The numbers in Thursday’s affidavit bring the total number of signatures submitted up to 102,730, more than 1,200 above AFLG’s estimate.| Arkansas Advocate
The Arkansas Supreme Court Tuesday night ordered Secretary of State John Thurston to count signatures collected by volunteer canvassers for a proposed ballot initiative to expand abortion access. The state’s high court ordered the count to be completed by 9 a.m. Monday.| Arkansas Advocate
Attorney General Tim Griffin on Friday filed a motion asking the Arkansas Supreme Court to dismiss a lawsuit challenging Secretary of State John Thurston’s recent rejection of the proposed Arkansas Abortion Amendment of 2024.| Arkansas Advocate
The ballot question committee argued that Thurston’s office owes it “an opportunity to cure or correct any perceived deficiencies in its submission."| Arkansas Advocate
The ballot question committee asserted that Thurston’s office is required to count every signature regardless of the validity of the paid canvassers’ signatures.| Arkansas Advocate
Arkansans for Limited Government did not submit a required affidavit while supporters of other ballot measures did, Secretary of State John Thurston said.| Arkansas Advocate
A proposed constitutional amendment to expand abortion access in Arkansas exceeded the required number of signatures for the November ballot.| Arkansas Advocate
The Family Council claims the proposed measure would allow “thousands of elective abortions in Arkansas every year.”| Arkansas Advocate
The defendants did not appear at the Aug. 14 hearing to make the case for why they should not be held in contempt, though their counsel was present.| Arkansas Advocate
Big Country Chateau faces a consumer protection lawsuit from the state and has been embroiled in city environmental court proceedings since 2019.| Arkansas Advocate
Big Country Chateau failed to pay utility bills, risking the loss of water and electricity for more than 150 tenants, a lawsuit says.| Arkansas Advocate
The governor and education secretary sent a letter to Arkansas school superintendents Tuesday urging them to join a new pilot program focused on increasing access to mental health care for students and restricting in-school cellphone use.| Arkansas Advocate
President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race Sunday, he said in a letter posted to social media, creating an unprecedented vacancy atop the Democratic ticket one month before he was scheduled to officially accept his party’s nomination.| Arkansas Advocate
A voter advocacy group filed a lawsuit Wednesday that challenges a new rule requiring Arkansas voter registration applications to be signed with a “wet signature” and asks a judge to block its enforcement.| Arkansas Advocate
Thousands of Wisconsin voters packed the Fiserv Forum Tuesday night in Milwaukee to cheer Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.| Arkansas Advocate
Leading Democrats on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and its Workforce Protection Subcommittee demanded answers on Tuesday from Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su regarding allegations that certain state Occupational Safety and Health Administration agencies possibly misused federal funds and gave advance notice to employers of workplace safety inspections.| Arkansas Advocate
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz made his first solo campaign appearance as the Democratic vice presidential candidate Tuesday, telling a union audience in Los Angeles that the Democratic ticket led by Vice President Kamala Harris would prioritize worker-friendly policies.| Arkansas Advocate
Arkansans for Limited Government said it did not oppose the other two ballot question committees' motion to intervene.| Arkansas Advocate
Election officials said in response to questions from state Sen. Kim Hammer, R-Benton, that elections have not been "stolen."| Arkansas Advocate
Thurston was among the Republican elected officials who participated in the March for Life, Arkansas Right to Life's annual anti-abortion rally.| Arkansas Advocate
President Joe Biden wants Congress take up a constitutional amendment restoring criminal liability for U.S. presidents.| Arkansas Advocate
Arkansas delegates to the Democratic National Convention unanimously endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday.| Arkansas Advocate
Arkansas rural water systems are looking to $5 million in federal funds to help them improve aging pipes and other infrastructure.| Arkansas Advocate
The experience of growing up in Arkansas has worsened in most areas of child well-being according to the latest Annie E. Casey Foundation report.| Arkansas Advocate
