Arkansas Advocate : Arkansas landlords filed nearly 700 eviction notices per month in 2022, study shows | Regional News
Arkansas landlords filed an average of 696 civil eviction complaints per month in 2022, according to a study of “all publicly available (COVID-19) pandemic-related eviction cases” in state court records by the advocacy group Arkansas Community Institute. The group released a report on the study Wednesday and called for large-scale changes to state renting laws. […]
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Arkansas Advocate : Arkansas legislators OK construction of underground tunnel on Capitol grounds | Regional News
Arkansas lawmakers on Tuesday approved the construction of an underground tunnel between the state Capitol and a nearby building with meeting rooms and legislative offices. The subsurface walkway to the Multi-Agency Complex — commonly referred to as “Big MAC” — has long been on the wishlists of some legislators and other state leaders, but it […]
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Arkansas prison escapee, sister, mother caught one year after Brickeys breakout | Regional News
Samuel Paul Hartman, who escaped from an Arkansas prison more than a year ago, was captured Tuesday by U.S. Marshals and Arkansas Department of Corrections officials. The takedown took place at the Quality Inn motel in Lewisburg, WV. A photograph from the U.S. Marshals Service showed Hartman with facial lacerations, but there were no further […]
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Arkansas Advocate : Arkansas Medicaid recipients share concerns with federal and state officials | Regional News
A group of Arkansans on Tuesday petitioned state and federal officials to intervene in the state’s administration of Medicaid, which they have repeatedly said needs improvement. Arkansas Community Organizations held the latest of several protests this year airing Medicaid recipients’ complaints, including difficulties ensuring that the state Department of Human Services has accurately recorded or […]
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Arkansas Republicans elect new state chairman | Regional News
Joseph K. Wood was elected on Saturday as chairman of the Republican Party of Arkansas. Wood is secretary of the Arkansas Department of Transformation and Shared Services, former Washington County judge, and former treasurer of the Republican Party of Arkansas. The election marked the annual summer State Committee Meeting of the Republican Party of Arkansas. […]
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Governor makes South Arkansas appointments | Regional News
Appointments of South Arkansas residents to state boards and commissions have been announced by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Sammy Angel, of Lake Village, to the State Plant Board. Term expires on August 15, 2028. Jon Bierbaum, of Lake Village, to the State Plant Board. Term expires on August 15, 2028. John Scott Gunter, of Hope, […]
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Arkansas Advocate : Arkansas education secretary defends AP African American Studies decision | Regional News
Arkansas’ top education official on Monday sought to defend the removal of an AP African American Studies class from the state’s approved course list late last week, but anger persisted from education advocates, state lawmakers, students and the NAACP. Education Secretary Jacob Oliva told the Advocate that the class was deleted from the state’s Course […]
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Arkansas Advocate : Pregnancy resource centers tout their services to Arkansas lawmakers | Regional News
Some Arkansas lawmakers said Thursday that they see pregnancy resource centers as tools to help reduce infant, child and maternal mortality in the state, which has a near-total abortion ban and consistently high rates of death among babies and new mothers. Pregnancy resource centers — often referred to as “crisis pregnancy centers” — are often […]
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Arkansas Advocate : Rural Arkansans face long ambulance wait times, nationwide study says | Regional News
All 75 counties in Arkansas have at least one ambulance desert, meaning it takes paramedics longer than 25 minutes to drive to some residents’ homes, according to a nationwide study published in May. Several factors, particularly limited public and private revenue in sparsely populated areas, drive this scarcity of potentially life-saving health services, according to […]
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Arkansas Advocate : Arkansas Finance Secretary Larry Walther appointed interim state treasurer | Regional News
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Thursday appointed Larry Walther, the secretary of the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration, to succeed the late Mark Lowery as state treasurer. Lowery, a Republican elected treasurer last year, died last week following a pair of strokes. Walther will serve until 2025, and Arkansans will elect a new […]
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