Sunset Review legislation much needed
What do you think would happen if you drove your car for years but never had any normal maintenance done? What if you just put gas in the car and never even bothered to check [...]
Commentary
Governor Hutchinson’s weird week made possible by his nephew
Governor Asa Hutchinson and the Governor’s Council on Common Core Review recommended to the State Board of Education that it end use of the standardized test by [...]
Send in the clowns – Your DHS circus at work
Where did the money go? Don’t worry. Be happy! The Arkansas Department of Human Services can’t properly account for $43.9 million in Medicaid funds last year. To DHS [...]
Government Money For Votes?
You may not have noticed this item when the Arkansas General Assembly approved a new budget for the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2015. In addition, the measures would [...]
Incumbent politicians to freeze out primary challengers
UPDATE: This article was written in anticipation that Governor Asa Hutchinson would include items in the Special Session to move up the primaries and move back the Fiscal [...]
Raiding state funding sources for Medicaid
This is the third in a series on Arkansas’ General Improvement Fund but it also focuses on the Tobacco Settlement Program Account General Improvement Fund The General [...]
The Fall & Rise of Legislative Pork in Arkansas
This is the second in a series of articles on General Improvement Funds The General Improvement Fund (GIF) used to be used for improvements to state facilities, state parks [...]
General Improvement Fund – A Reelection Tool
This is the first in a series of articles on Arkansas’ General Improvement Fund. The members of Arkansas General Assembly are given discretion over millions of dollars in [...]
“Trust us” is the road that leads to more Obamacare in Arkansas
Act 46 (SB96) created the Arkansas Health Reform Legislative Task Force. (By the way, it continued Obamacare Medicaid Expansion until it would need new Arkansas legislation [...]
Fatalistic excuse for voting for Arkansas’ Obamacare laws
Even when the Arkansas’ version of Obamacare Medicaid Expansion (Private Option) was passed in 2013 some Republican legislators such as Representative Charlie Collins tried [...]
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