Benjamin Hardy
Managing Editor at Arkansas Times
Managing editor at the Arkansas Times. Formerly ProPublica, Arkansas Nonprofit News Network, ACAMS
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1 day ago |
arktimes.com | Griffin Coop |Benjamin Hardy
Gov. Sarah Sanders vetoed a bill Tuesday that aimed to give schools the ability to remove violently disruptive students from the classroom and send them to new behavioral health programs to be established by the state Department of Education and Department of Human Services, or DHS.
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3 days ago |
arktimes.com | Benjamin Hardy
Arkansas has identified its third measles case in the past two weeks, the state health department said Monday. The first two cases, which were reported about 11 days ago, affected unvaccinated children who had recently traveled out of state. One case was in Saline County, the other in Faulkner County. Ashley Whitlow, a spokeswoman with the Arkansas Department of Health, said on Monday that the third case is also in Saline and was also an unvaccinated child.
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1 week ago |
arktimes.com | Benjamin Hardy
Hours after the Arkansas Legislature wrapped up the 2025 session on Wednesday, Gov. Sarah Sanders issued a surprise veto targeting a single item in the budget of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock — the $191,605 salary of the director of the school’s Anderson Institute on Race and Ethnicity. “Arkansas will not waste nearly $200,000 in taxpayer dollars on DEI administrators who promote woke nonsense,” Sanders said in a letter to legislative leaders.
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1 week ago |
arktimes.com | Benjamin Hardy
Gov. Sarah Sanders signed a bill Wednesday afternoon that could reshape the pharmacy business landscape in Arkansas, despite an aggressive lobbying campaign by CVS Health — one of the largest companies in the country — urging her to veto the measure. House Bill 1150 targets pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs — middlemen companies that handle drug claims and negotiate rates on behalf of insurers. PBMs help determine how much pharmacies get paid for filling prescriptions.
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1 week 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.
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