by - May 22, 2018 11:35 pm
Justice Courtney Goodson and Department of Human Services Chief Counsel David Sterling are headed for a runoff in the Arkansas Supreme Court race, while Commissioner of State Lands John Thurston…
by - May 22, 2018 10:40 pm
State Rep. Clarke Tucker, D-Little Rock, won the Democratic Party’s nomination in the 2nd Congressional District race Tuesday, avoiding a runoff and moving on to challenge U.S. Rep. French Hill,…
by - May 22, 2018 9:03 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson easily won the Republican Party’s nomination for a second term Tuesday after the Associated Press called the race less than an hour after polls closed. Hutchinson led…
by - May 13, 2018 9:49 am
Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election for a number of reasons – including the fact that she’s a woman, but also because her campaign staff didn’t let her act like…
by - May 10, 2018 6:36 am
A nonpartisan group that monitors Arkansas judicial campaigns says its initial review of ads targeting Supreme Court Justice Courtney Goodson indicate the ads contain false and misleading information. The complaint…
by - May 9, 2018 3:09 pm
The Arkansas Department of Human Services and Skyline Healthcare agreed Tuesday that a temporary receivership order issued Friday for two nursing homes will stay in place for 30 days. DHS…
by - April 30, 2018 2:02 pm
UAMS is creating a free weekly online education service for prescribers to learn about managing chronic pain and reducing opioid prescriptions. Arkansas Improving Multidisciplinary Pain Care Treatment (AR-IMPACT) this first…
by - April 27, 2018 5:10 pm
Mike Stock, the president and CEO of QualChoice, and two other executive leaders are retiring effective June 29, the company announced Friday (April 27). Chief Financial Officer Randall Crow will…
by - April 24, 2018 5:45 pm
The involvement of Amazon and other tech giants in the health care industry will accelerate the move to consumer-based care, while the omnibus spending package passed by Congress in March…
by - April 24, 2018 7:49 am
The Lake View school funding case probably is still “good law” despite a recent court ruling that the state can’t be sued under the Arkansas Constitution. But the ability of…
by - April 17, 2018 11:20 am
Former first lady Barbara Bush and former President George H.W. Bush are in good spirits, and, like the author Mark Twain, “the reports of Barbara Bush’s demise are highly exaggerated,”…
by - April 16, 2018 2:54 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson has asked the Arkansas Supreme Court to expedite an appeal of a judge’s order blocking the issuance of medical marijuana cultivation licenses. He also said Monday that…
by - March 29, 2018 7:42 pm
The state of Arkansas is suing three opioid manufacturers saying they deceived doctors and patients and caused the state to pay for unnecessary Medicaid claims, Attorney General Leslie Rutledge announced…
by - March 26, 2018 2:41 pm
An attorney representing Arkansas’ cities and counties in a lawsuit against opioid manufacturers says the plaintiffs probably would need to recover “somewhere in the billions” to help pay for the…
by - March 15, 2018 5:51 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed legislation authorizing the Insurance Department to license and regulate pharmacy benefit managers Thursday, comparing the action to President Theodore Roosevelt’s efforts to prevent monopolies and trusts…
by - March 15, 2018 12:06 pm
Editor’s note: The previous story has been replaced by this report. ———————- Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Thursday called for reorganizing the state’s current 42 state agencies reporting to him to…
by - March 8, 2018 9:30 am
A bill that would allow the Arkansas insurance commissioner to license and regulate pharmacy benefit managers has been drafted and has 72 co-sponsors in the House and about 28 in…
by - March 5, 2018 2:16 pm
Arkansas became the third state granted a federal waiver allowing it to require some Medicaid expansion beneficiaries to work, and it was the first to have it hand-delivered by the…
by - March 4, 2018 7:16 am
Arkansas’ school funding formula was created in response to the long-running Lake View lawsuit against the state. But now that the Arkansas Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the…
by - March 1, 2018 3:47 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson created an Arkansas School Safety Commission to study how to prevent school violence, he announced in a Thursday (March 1) press conference. He also said he opposed…
