State Capitol Week in Review – September 24, 2022
LITTLE ROCK – Over the next three years about 3,200 Arkansans with disabilities will be able to get Medicaid services at home or in their...
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- Sep 17
State Capitol Week in Review – September 17, 2022
LITTLE ROCK – Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic Arkansas has received billions of dollars in federal relief funding. The PEER...
- Sep 11
State Capitol Week in Review – September 10, 2022
LITTLE ROCK – The Senate and House Committees on Education are scheduled to vote on next year’s adequacy report at their meeting in early...
- Aug 27
State Capitol Week in Review – August 27, 2022
LITTLE ROCK – A shooting spree occurred in Little Rock over the weekend of August 13 and 14. Three people were killed and four people...
- Aug 19
State Capitol Week in Review – August 19, 2022
LITTLE ROCK – Arkansas has begun the process of expanding Medicaid services so that more pregnant women can qualify for the government...
- Aug 14
State Capitol Week in Review – August 14, 2022
LITTLE ROCK – The legislature concluded a quick, three-day special session after approving income tax cuts that will save 1.6 million...
- Jul 30
State Capitol Week in Review – July 30, 2022
LITTLE ROCK –Well-attended meetings at the state Capitol usually indicate that legislators are addressing an important issue. That was...
- Jul 23
State Capitol Week in Review – July 23, 2022
LITTLE ROCK – Every year the sales tax holiday is the first weekend in August. This year it will be Saturday, August 6, and Sunday,...
- Jul 16
State Capitol Week in Review – July 16, 2022
LITTLE ROCK – Two interest groups submitted petitions to the Secretary of State seeking to have two proposed constitutional amendments...
- Jul 15
Weekly Address – July 15, 2022
From the historic hallways of the most beautiful state Capitol in our nation, this is Senator Keith Ingram. On almost a daily basis, the...
- Jul 9
State Capitol Week in Review – July 9, 2022
LITTLE ROCK – The governor announced that he would call the legislature into special session on August 8 to consider income tax cuts that...
- Jul 1
State Capitol Week in Review – July 2, 2022
LITTLE ROCK – The Arkansas School Safety Commission is meeting frequently in order to have an initial report ready for the governor and...
- Jun 27
Update: Arkansas Senate Ethics Committee
The Senate Ethics Committee recommended Monday that the Senate discipline Senator Alan Clark of Lonsdale and Senator Mark Johnson of...
- Jun 25
State Capitol Week in Review – June 25, 2022
LITTLE ROCK – When people call the state hotline to report suspected child abuse or neglect, about 80 percent are assigned to the...
- Jun 18
State Capitol Week in Review – June 18, 2022
LITTLE ROCK – The Arkansas School Safety Commission has been set up again to update measures to protect students while they are in...
- Jun 17
Weekly Address – June 17, 2022
From the historic hallways of the most beautiful state Capitol in our nation, this is Senator Keith Ingram. Throughout my career in the...
- Jun 11
State Capitol Week in Review – June 11, 2022
The economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic was especially hard for child care centers, so the Arkansas Department of Human Services is...
- Jun 10
Weekly Address – June 10, 2022
From the historic hallways of the most beautiful state Capitol in our nation, this is Senator Keith Ingram. If you have children going...
- Jun 4
State Capitol Week in Review – June 4, 2022
LITTLE ROCK – Two new virtual statewide charter schools have been approved by the Arkansas Board of Education. The board’s action allows...
- Jun 3
Weekly Address – June 3, 2022
Two new virtual statewide charter schools have been approved by the Arkansas Board of Education. The board’s action allows Founders...