by - May 24, 2016 5:09 pm
Four of the state’s five health insurance providers are requesting double digit rate increases for 2017 insurance policies, but the state’s insurance commissioner said those rates are not justified at…
by - May 23, 2016 4:25 pm
The director of the Arkansas Department of Higher Education, Dr. Brett Powell, is leaving his post to become Henderson State University’s vice president for finance and administration. Powell will leave…
by - May 23, 2016 3:46 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed a five-year highway bill into law Monday hours after it passed the Senate and said any longer term plan should come as a result of a…
by - May 20, 2016 7:11 pm
The Department of Human Services and the Arkansas Health Care Association entered into a memorandum of understanding Friday meant to reduce long-term Medicaid health care costs by at least $250…
by - May 20, 2016 4:06 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson said the highway bill that appears headed for passage Monday had to be a five-year plan and he said that any tax increase for highways needs to…
by - May 20, 2016 2:29 pm
Editor’s note: Story updated with additions and changes throughout. ––––––––––––––––––– Gov. Asa Hutchinson has named Alison Williams as his new chief of staff effective June 1, the governor told reporters…
by - May 20, 2016 12:08 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s highway bill cleared a committee hurdle Friday and heads to the full Senate Monday, where it likely will pass. The bill, HB1009, by Rep. Andy Davis, R-Little…
by - May 19, 2016 8:15 pm
Legislators voted out of committee Thursday a bill that would close new claims to the Workers’ Compensation Commission’s Death and Permanent Total Disability Trust Fund, and eventually end the fund…
by - May 19, 2016 7:02 pm
The Senate sponsor of Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s highway package plans to run it through a new committee Friday after he twice was unable to move it Thursday and after it…
by - May 19, 2016 12:02 pm
The Senate Committee on Transportation, Technology, and Legislative Affairs deadlocked 4-4 Thursday morning voting on Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s highway bill. The vote came after its Senate sponsor, Sen. Bart Hester,…
by - May 18, 2016 6:14 pm
The Arkansas Highway Commission has announced its support for Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s highway bill. In a statement released Wednesday, the commission said it was “pleased that the call for the…
by - May 18, 2016 4:24 pm
A package of campaign finance reforms had broad support in a poll conducted in March, according to numbers supplied to Talk Business & Politics by the reforms’ leading backer. In…
by - May 18, 2016 4:08 pm
A bill filed for the upcoming special session would place a one-year moratorium on the state declaring schools to be in academic distress, while another would combine school and general…
by - May 16, 2016 8:00 pm
Highways may be the inspiration for the special session beginning May 19, but Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s call also includes 14 other items such as ending new claims in a workers’…
by - May 16, 2016 7:41 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson is calling on legislators to approve more highway spending but no longer is asking them to partially rely on sales taxes on the purchases of new and…
by - May 15, 2016 4:14 pm
Former President Bill Clinton encouraged the 41 members of the 10th graduating class of the Clinton School of Public Service to focus on what makes people alike rather than what…
by - May 15, 2016 12:15 pm
A proposed bill that would do away with the Workers’ Compensation Commission’s Death and Permanent Total Disability Trust Fund has support from some legislators and organized labor but not the…
by - May 14, 2016 9:41 am
The call for the May 19 special session is expected to come “some time after lunch on Monday” and will contain “anywhere between five and 15” items, Speaker of the…
by - May 13, 2016 1:48 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Friday that schools should disregard a “significant guidance” by the Obama administration warning schools that they must allow transgender students to use restrooms and locker rooms…
by - May 12, 2016 6:48 pm
A ruling Thursday by a federal district judge invalidating funding for part of the Affordable Care Act won’t affect Arkansas’ health insurance markets yet because the judge stayed her own…
