by Associated Press 6/19/2013 08:14 am
Gov. Mike Beebe has sent a letter to President Barack Obama requesting a major disaster declaration for 12 Arkansas counties that were affected by severe storms, tornadoes and floods beginning in late May.
by Lance Turner 3/14/2013 03:28 pm
U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., joins a bipartisan group of lawmakers supporting legislation he says would give Congress the authority to approve the Keystone XL pipeline.
by Andrew DeMillo, The Associated Press 2/17/2013 05:08 pm
What happened to the Medicaid session? Despite all the talk before lawmakers gathered at the Arkansas Capitol that Medicaid's finances and future would overshadow just about every other issue, there's been scant attention paid to the $5 billion program and efforts to expand it under the federal health care law
by Arkansas Business Editors 2/4/2013 12:00 am
The announcement on an eerily warm Tuesday of a shiny new $1.1 billion steel plant to be built at Osceola feels like recovery.
by Jeannie Nuss 1/18/2013 07:26 am
Democrat Dustin McDaniel's comments come nearly a month after the only announced Republican gubernatorial candidate, former U.S. Rep. Asa Hutchinson, was tapped to head a National Rifle Association effort to push for armed officers in the nation's schools.
by Lance Turner 1/17/2013 04:26 pm
Former U.S. Rep. Jay Dickey, R-Ark., responds to President Obama's order Wednesday to ease research restrictions pushed through Congress in the 1990s by the gun lobby.
by Lance Turner 12/21/2012 08:17 am
Incoming U.S. Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., an Iraq war veteran, outlines his opposition to Chuck Hagel as defense secretary.
by Lance Turner 12/19/2012 03:14 pm
The National Journal publishes the White House's talking points for business leaders in support of President Barack Obama's fiscal cliff budget plan.
by Lance Turner 12/5/2012 08:11 am
U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., talks to Arkansas Business news partner THV 11 News about the "fiscal cliff" negotiations.
by Lance Turner 11/29/2012 01:24 pm
Bloomberg Businessweek examines those strangely subject-lined Obama campaign fundraising emails, and finds how much one hauled in.
by Arkansas Business Editors 11/26/2012 12:00 am
The federal government has given the state of Arkansas, along with a number of other states, a second chance to establish its own state-run health insurance exchange. Legislators, harkening to Republican wishful thinking and anti-Obama sentiment, muffed the first chance for Arkansans to have greater control over the implementation of the Affordable Care Act — Obamacare.
by Gwen Moritz 11/12/2012 12:00 am
The pattern in last week's election was this: Patterns matter. And politicians who can recognize and exploit patterns win.
by Lance Turner 11/7/2012 10:13 am
Arkansans on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, filled each of its U.S. House seats with Republicans and gave the GOP its first majority in the state Legislature since Reconstruction.
by Andrew DeMillo, The Associated Press 11/7/2012 07:29 am
President Barack Obama's unpopularity and the involvement of outside conservative groups helped Republicans in Arkansas achieve a prize that had eluded them for 138 years when they swept the state's U.S. House seats and wrested control of the state Senate in Tuesday's election.
by Andrew DeMillo, The Associated Press 11/5/2012 04:58 pm
Candidates fanned across Arkansas on Monday making their final pitches to voters before an election that could hand Republicans a majority in the state Legislature for the first time since Reconstruction.
by Andrew DeMillo, The Associated Press 11/4/2012 08:15 am
With control of the Legislature and a GOP sweep of the state's four congressional seats potentially within reach, Republicans in Arkansas are heading into Tuesday's election ready to test whether the party's momentum in recent years will break what had been a reliable Democratic stronghold in the South.
by Andrew DeMillo, The Associated Press 10/28/2012 12:00 pm
Arkansas Republicans should thank President Barack Obama for motivating GOP voters and putting the party on the verge of winning control of the state Legislature for the first time since Reconstruction, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Saturday.
by George Waldon 9/17/2012 12:00 am
If Congress fails to address the so-called fiscal cliff, the United States faces another recession, leaving Arkansas political and business leaders to hope the critical hour of decision will force the appearance of bipartisanship
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