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 week ago |
arktimes.com | Benjamin Hardy
A three-judge panel in federal court sided with state officials Friday in a decision upholding Arkansas’s congressional district lines and rejecting arguments that the map discriminates against Black voters by splitting Pulaski County between three of the state’s four House districts. The lawsuit, Christian Ministerial Alliance v. Thurston, was the second of two challenges to the Arkansas congressional district lines redrawn after the 2020 U.S census.
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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...
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1 week ago |
arktimes.com | Benjamin Hardy
The national journalism nonprofit Report for America announced the winners of its fifth annual Local News Awards last week, and our very own agriculture and environment reporter Phillip Powell came away with not one but two honors. RFA is a national service program that aims to address the decline of local journalism by placing reporters into local newsrooms and covering a portion of their salary.
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arktimes.com | Benjamin Hardy
Arkansas may be at or near the bottom of the country when it comes to state-by-state stats on maternal health, infant mortality and average income. But our Republican leaders want you to know Arkansas is wildly overperforming in the eyes of conservative wonks at groups like the Heritage Foundation. Gov.
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2 weeks ago |
arktimes.com | Benjamin Hardy
One of the largest health care companies in the country announced Thursday it’s suing Arkansas over a new law, signed by Gov. Sarah Sanders in April, that would bar it from operating pharmacies in the state. The plaintiff, Express Scripts, is a pharmacy benefit manager, or PBM, a corporate middleman that handles prescription drug claims and negotiates prices on behalf of insurers.
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