Austin Gelder

1 week ago | arktimes.com | Austin Gelder |Milo Strain

Mess with Arkansas’s underwater dinosaurs and you could pay dearly. Four fishermen found this out the hard way after they got busted snagging prehistoric paddlefish from Natural State waters to harvest the high-dollar roe. Word arrived Friday from Jonathan Ross, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, that four Arkansans found big trouble at the Little Red River.

3 weeks ago | arktimes.com | Austin Gelder |Benjamin Hardy

On Tuesday afternoon, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin said he was refusing to appoint a new member to the Arkansas Ethics Commission because of a requirement in state law that at least one person on the commission be a “member of a minority race.” Complying with that law would be “racial discrimination,” Griffin said, which he called “both wrong and unconstitutional.” Political grandstanding is to be expected from Griffin, but when we looked into the current membership of the Ethics...

1 month ago | arktimes.com | Austin Gelder |Benjamin Hardy

President Donald Trump’s recent string of pardons for prominent white collar criminals continued on Wednesday with clemency for Jeremy Hutchinson, the disgraced former state senator from Little Rock who was at the center of a bribery scandal at the Arkansas Legislature that ensnared multiple lawmakers, lobbyists, health care executives and others. Jeremy Hutchinson, the nephew of former Gov. Asa Hutchinson and son of former U.S. Sen.

2 months ago | arktimes.com | Austin Gelder |Benjamin Hardy

“Educational Freedom Accounts,” the propagandic euphemism for Arkansas school vouchers, will be slightly less free under a bill on its way to Gov. Sarah Sanders’ desk. Senate Bill 625 passed the full House Wednesday morning with 74 votes, after which the Senate voted to concur in a minor amendment. It will tweak the Arkansas LEARNS Act, the 2023 law championed by Sanders that created the voucher program.

2 months ago | arktimes.com | Rhett Brinkley |Stephanie Smittle |Daniel Grear |Benjamin Hardy |Austin Gelder

As March comes to a close, we’re looking back at some of the best restaurant dishes the Eat Arkansas team came across over the last four weeks. Send us your favorite bites and food selfies over the last month as we plan our April dining schedules. Pad thai curry with yellow curry (off menu) at Bangkok Thai CuisineI’ve been eating at Bangkok Thai Cuisine in the River Market’s Ottenheimer Hall for years, alternating mostly between their pad thai and yellow curry, depending on my mood.