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1 week ago | 
kasu.org | Sonny Albarado |Arkansas Advocate
Arkansas’ prison oversight board on Tuesday unanimously approved a contract with two architectural engineering firms to design a planned state prison. The state Board of Corrections gave preliminary approval in May to the $57 million contract with Omaha, Neb.-based HDR and Little Rock-based Cromwell Architects Engineers, but held off formal approval until Tuesday’s special-call meeting because some members had questions.
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1 week ago | 
arkansasadvocate.com | Jennifer Shutt |Arkansas Advocate
WASHINGTON — Republicans in the U.S. Senate will spend the next couple weeks defending the party’s “big beautiful bill” against Democratic criticisms and attempting to pass a final version that can win 51 votes.
Reconciliation, the name for the process under which the massive bill is being considered, comes with a lot of rules in the Senate, including that every proposal in the bill addresses federal revenue, spending, or the debt limit.
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2 weeks ago | 
mhobserver.com | Sonny Albarado |Arkansas Advocate |Sonny Albarado
Arkansas’ prison oversight board on Tuesday unanimously approved a contract with two architectural engineering firms to design a planned state prison. The state Board of Corrections gave preliminary approval in May to the $57 million contract with Omaha, Neb.-based HDR and Little Rock-based Cromwell Architects Engineers, but held off formal approval until Tuesday’s special-call meeting because some members had questions.
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2 weeks ago | 
magnoliareporter.com | Antoinette Grajeda |Arkansas Advocate
A legislative committee on Monday, June 9, 2025 granted preliminary permission for officials to move forward with proposed rates for Arkansas’ new state property insurance program, the result of nearly two years of work aimed at developing a plan to control rising insurance premiums for schools.
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2 weeks ago | 
magnoliareporter.com | Antoinette Grajeda |Arkansas Advocate
The authors of a proposed constitutional amendment to protect Arkansas’ direct democracy process are still revising their measure following the attorney general’s rejection of their original draft last week. Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin said he could not certify The Arkansas Ballot Measure Rights Amendment because it failed to meet the eighth-grade reading level standard set in a new law.
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2 weeks ago | 
arkansasadvocate.com | Sonny Albarado |Arkansas Advocate
by Sonny Albarado, Arkansas Advocate June 11, 2025 Saline County voters will soon receive notices from the county clerk’s office asking them to confirm their voter registration address or informing them their registrations have been canceled. “We want to make sure voters understand that these mailings are not spam or scams — they are an important part of the federally mandated process to maintain an accurate and secure voter roll,” Saline County Clerk Doug Curtis said in a press release.
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2 weeks ago | 
kasu.org | Antoinette Grajeda |Arkansas Advocate
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders will travel to Europe this month for an overseas trade mission that will include stops in France and Switzerland, according to a Thursday press release from her office. Sanders’ trip, which is scheduled for June 14-19, will include appearances at a Paris Air Show panel hosted by the Aerospace Industries Association and a fireside chat organized by the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce.
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2 weeks ago | 
mhobserver.com | Antoinette Grajeda |Arkansas Advocate
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders will travel to Europe this month for an overseas trade mission that will include stops in France and Switzerland, according to a Thursday press release from her office. Sanders’ trip, which is scheduled for June 14-19, will include appearances at a Paris Air Show panel hosted by the Aerospace Industries Association and a fireside chat organized by the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce.
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2 weeks ago | 
arkansasadvocate.com | Paige Gross |Arkansas Advocate
As Congress continues its investigation into the role AI should play in government, members of the House Oversight Committee are questioning the uses and procurement of AI tools for government work, as well as the privacy concerns the technology poses when unregulated.
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3 weeks ago | 
magnoliareporter.com | Tess Vrbin |Antoinette Grajeda |Arkansas Advocate
An Arkansas legislative committee filed a report Friday, June 6, 2025 detailing a requested audit into the Board of Corrections’ 2023 hiring of a Little Rock attorney, a move that raised concerns from lawmakers about the board’s procurement practices.
