ARKANSAS POLITICS AND LEGISLATIVE NEWS
Arkansas lawmakers to start special session today
The Arkansas General Assembly will convene this morning for a special session on a number of issues, including regulating pharmacy benefit managers, expanding a state tax break to use college savings plans for kindergarten-12th grade expenses and changing the open-container law to avoid losing $12 m...
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Trump fires Secretary of State Rex Tillerson; CIA director named as replacement; Cotton weighs in on picks
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday and said he would nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace him, in a major staff reshuffle just as Trump dives into high-stakes talks with North Korea.
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Challenges to Arkansas' 5 picks for medical marijuana growers pour in
A flurry of challenges to the licensing of Arkansas' first medical marijuana growers continued to inundate state regulators Monday.
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El Dorado's Shepherd elected speaker
House lawmakers Monday selected state Rep. Matthew Shepherd, an El Dorado Republican who heads the chamber's Judiciary Committee, to be the next speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives.
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Filing accuses Arkansas lobbyist of murder-for-hire plot
Indicted lobbyist Milton Russell "Rusty" Cranford tried to arrange the murder of an alleged co-conspirator in an illegal lobbying and kickback scheme, according to a federal court filing Monday in Missouri that argued he should be denied bail.
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State's jobless rate stays put at 3.7%
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