Special Session
The Price of Pique (Editorial)
A special session to address the Legislature’s failure to do its job will cost taxpayers $100,000. read more >
Arkansas Lawmakers Pass Tax Cut Package, Adjourn Session
The package includes a nonrefundable $150 tax credit for individuals making up to $87,000 a year. read more >
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Arkansas Lawmakers Advance Tax Cut, School Safety Bills
The cuts include accelerating reductions in individual and corporate income taxes that the majority-Republican Legislature approved last year. read more >
Arkansas Lawmakers Taking Up Tax Cuts, School Safety in Special Session
The tax cut plan has raised questions about whether it could jeopardize some of the state's federal COVID-19 aid. read more >
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Hutchinson Outlines Agenda for Final Months in Office
The term-limited governor says his focus is on broadband access, jobs and a "hopefully quick" special session on tax cuts. read more >
Arkansas Lawmakers OK Income Tax Cuts, Adjourn Session
Critics argued that the cuts are skewed toward the wealthy and that the money would be better spent elsewhere. read more >
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Arkansas Governor to Call Special Session on Tax Cut Plan
The primary focus will be on a tax cut package that calls for reducing the state's top income tax rate from 5.9% to 4.9% read more >
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Short-Term Answers to Long-Term Problems (Andrew DeMillo Analysis)
The measures lawmakers are taking up this week to avert a looming increase in teacher health insurance premiums and ease an influx of state inmates crowding local jails won't completely solve either problem. read more >
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