by - February 1, 2020 6:00 am
Secretary of State John Thurston gave approval to a ballot initiative that could allow voters to overturn a legislative act that broadened the powers of state optometrists. On Friday (Jan….
by - January 28, 2020 3:32 pm
A lawsuit challenging the ballot referendum process has been dismissed by a Pulaski County judge. On Tuesday (Jan. 29), Judge Wendell Griffen dismissed the suit against the Arkansas Secretary of…
by - January 23, 2020 11:56 am
Arkansas political observers may be cross-eyed by the time all of the legal machinations between optometrists and ophthalmologists are settled. On Thursday (Jan. 23), the Arkansas Supreme Court denied a…
by - January 20, 2020 2:47 pm
Safe Surgery Arkansas, which is pushing a ballot initiative to repeal newly passed Act 579, says it has qualified for the November ballot, but the Secretary of State’s office said…
by - December 23, 2019 3:11 pm
Arkansans for Healthy Eyes, the ballot question committee opposing an initiated act to reverse Act 579 of 2019, filed a petition for rehearing with the Arkansas Supreme Court on Monday…
by - December 12, 2019 11:12 am
The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Thursday (Dec. 12) that Secretary of State John Thurston’s office must count signatures collected by a group wanting to repeal a state law regarding optometrists’…
by - June 11, 2019 6:01 pm
A coalition of Arkansas doctors are looking to deploy a rarely used ballot referendum to knock a new law off the books that would allow optometrists to perform eye surgeries…
