by - July 16, 2012 9:38 am
In our latest edition of Talk Business Quarterly, Democratic Party of Arkansas Chairman Will Bond and Republican Party of Arkansas Chairman Doyle Webb make the arguments for why their political parties should win voters’ choices.
by - July 16, 2012 9:20 am
Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has filed a motion to intervene in a federal lawsuit in which several environmental advocacy groups seek “unnecessary and unreasonable federal regulation” of nutrient pollution in the Mississippi River basin and the northern Gulf of Mexico.
by - July 15, 2012 5:20 pm
John Lyon with our content partner, the Arkansas News Bureau, follows up on Attorney General Dustin McDaniel’s comments earlier in the week regarding the state’s execution law.
by - July 13, 2012 5:23 pm
In politics, Medicaid becomes a huge state and national issue.
by - July 13, 2012 9:08 am
Gov. Mike Beebe’s communications director Matt DeCample was a guest on last week’s edition of Talk Business to discuss the budget surplus and possible expansion of the state’s Medicaid program.
by - July 13, 2012 7:32 am
With the U.S. Senate having already approved a measure, a House agriculture panel made progress on another.
by - July 12, 2012 3:29 pm
A rough math exercise shows that the effort to place a wet-dry vote on the Benton County ballot in November cost around $6.50 per signature.
by - July 12, 2012 1:37 pm
Republican Presidential presumptive nominee Mitt Romney released his Arkansas campaign finance team on Thursday (July 12).
by - July 12, 2012 11:03 am
Gov. Mike Beebe has named Ford Overton of Little Rock as the newest commissioner of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.
by - July 11, 2012 8:18 pm
Texas businessman Michael Wasserman’s latest effort to qualify a casino amendment for Arkansas voters to consider has failed again.
by - July 11, 2012 3:57 pm
The Arkansas Scholarship Lottery says it should produce about $97.58 million for scholarships from its net revenues for the fiscal year that ended June 30. Two million dollars of the increase can be attributed to a contract renegotiation with lottery vendor Scientific Games.
by - July 11, 2012 8:23 am
Tim Wooldridge, who was in a First District run-off for the Democratic Congressional nomination in 2010, is throwing his support in 2012 to incumbent Republican Congressman Rick Crawford.
by - July 10, 2012 12:37 pm
Attorney General Dustin McDaniel (D), already a candidate for Governor in 2014, appeared on the latest live-stream installment of Talk Politics to discuss the federal health care ruling, Arkansas’ execution law, and the current slate of ballot initiatives.
by - July 10, 2012 12:03 pm
Gov. Mike Beebe has asked U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack for a Secretarial Disaster Designation to cover all 75 counties in Arkansas.
by - July 10, 2012 12:10 am
This morning, Tuesday, July 10 at 10 am, Talk Business & Politics will launch its latest installment of “Talk Politics,” our Q&A session with Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel (D).
by - July 9, 2012 2:54 pm
With the retirement of long-time Arkansas House of Representatives Tim Massanelli, Speaker Robert Moore named Buddy Johnson as his replacement.
by - July 9, 2012 1:29 pm
Ken Aden, the Democratic nominee in the Third Congressional District, announced Monday (July 9) that he would withdraw from the race.
by - July 7, 2012 9:16 am
Four citizens’ initiatives are likely to join two legislative-referred proposals for consideration on the November ballot.
by - July 7, 2012 1:47 am
The Presidential election is coming into picture for the fall as the Obama and Romney campaigns sharpen their focus.
by - July 6, 2012 7:58 am
A group wanting to legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes submitted more than 67,000 signatures to the Secretary of State’s office on Thursday in their bid to qualify for the November ballot.
