Gradually, Then Suddenly (Editorial)
Last week’s attempt to weaken Arkansas’ Freedom of Information Act won’t be the last. read more >
Last week’s attempt to weaken Arkansas’ Freedom of Information Act won’t be the last. read more >
This year has seen multiple attempts to limit our open records law, and the hits will keep coming. read more >
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the sunshine law puts her and other elected officials at risk. Press groups, lawyers and even a couple of Republican county committees say her claim is a stretch. read more >
Concerns about Attorney General Tim Griffin’s proposal to review the state’s FOI Act are rational. read more >
The recent failed assault on the FOIA was cynically pitched as making our law more like those of other states. read more >
Making it harder to challenge illegal exaction is good news only for government officials. read more >
A legislative proposal to gut the state’s Freedom of Information Act is an insult to taxpayers. read more >
A proposal that would have shielded decision-making by elected officials appears dead. For now. read more >
The Conway School Board’s email retention policy is a threat to open and transparent government. read more >
Scott's reelection bid is one of the few competitive races on the ballot in Arkansas, where Republicans are heavily favored in the governor's race and other top matchups. It could also offer Republicans a rare win in the predominantly Democratic city of Little Rock. read more >
Ellen Kreth is the publisher and owner. Shannon Hahn is the business manager. But both are also reporters, storytellers and, foremost, community members, duty-bound to tell their neighbors even the hardest news. read more >
A recent report on the percentage of Arkansas residents with medical marijuana cards required vastly more effort than previously. read more >
A Little Rock Black-owned business that sued the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission also has a case alleging racial discrimination against the firm that scored the applications for medical marijuana dispensary licenses. read more >
The trial of the civil lawsuit filed by four sisters of Josh Duggar involving allegations of invasion of privacy has been postponed. read more >
Who owns the medical marijuana business in Arkansas? As with most simple questions, finding the answer is more complicated than it seems. read more >
Nearly three years after a gunshot to the head killed his 20-year-old son in a Jefferson County hunting lodge in 2015, Kerry Baker of Conway started the machinery to dig up his boy’s body for the autopsy he had initially declined. read more >
If the cost of performing FOIA requests is burdensome, the answer is to come up with the money, not to keep chipping away at the public’s right to know. read more >
The FBI has been asking questions about the planned sale of 6,300 acres by the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, a deal that has drawn allegations that bid manipulation produced a lower sale price and a higher broker commission. read more >
Five weeks after allegations surfaced that former Craighead County Clerk Jacob “Kade” Holliday had embezzled more than $1.6 million from taxpayers, another purported victim was still looking for answers. read more >
An Arkansas physician who rehabilitated his image, regaining his medical license after going to federal prison on a child pornography charge, is now charged with a felonious relapse — this time accused of overprescribing opioids and other controlled substances. read more >
