AR Budget/ Government Spending/ GIF

What a tangled web he weaves….. In the Special Session of the General Assembly to begin Monday, May 1, Governor Asa Hutchinson wants the legislature to transfer $105 [...]

General Improvement Funds (GIF) has been plagued with fraud and waste. GIF gives politicians discretion over how to spend a pile of money. A few months ago, former State [...]

SB325 by Senator Trent Garner would end the practice of giving individual legislators General Improvement Funds (GIF) to spend.  His bill would have been a major reform if [...]

Former State Representative Micah Neal pled guilty Wednesday in a kickback scheme in the awarding of General Improvement Fund (GIF) grants. The plea came at the end of his [...]

Spending of Rainy Day Funds has skyrocketed under Governor Asa Hutchinson.  In the past eighteen months, he has spent more than was spent in the previous six years combined. [...]

Providing Discretionary Funds Instead of Performing Meaningful Budgeting Rainy Day Deception Part 3 Never, never, never rely on the title of Arkansas legislation! For [...]

SAVE IT FOR A RAINY DAY: Rainy Day Fund Deception – Part 2 Earlier this year Governor Asa Hutchinson called a special session of the legislature to give additional funding [...]

Before Governor Asa Hutchinson called the most recent special session in May 2016 to find additional highway funding, two things seemed clear: Legislators were against [...]

The 1997 session of the Arkansas legislature has been called “Grab Fest.” The media primarily remembers Grab Fest for legislation passed to financially benefit some [...]

CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS OR LEGISLATIVE INACTION? The problem of general law in Arkansas’ Fiscal Sessions Guest Article by: David Ferguson   A BREWING CONSTITUTIONAL [...]