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Austin Booth
Agriculture & Poultry / Government & Politics / Industry

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 >
Education / Government & Politics / Health Care

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 >
The Arkansas State Capitol in Little Rock.
Government & Politics

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 >
Education / Government & Politics

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 >
Gov. Asa Hutchinson
Construction / Energy / Manufacturing

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 >
Banking & Finance / Government & Politics / Manufacturing

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 >
Gov. Asa Hutchinson gives his State of the State address to the Arkansas General Assembly on Jan. 12.
Banking & Finance / Government & Politics / Health Care

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 >
Government & Politics

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 >