Recent stories by Michael R. Wickline
Talks on Arkansas Senate video-streaming hang up
The push to implement video-streaming of the Arkansas Senate and its committee meetings next year bogged down Thursday as several senators grappled with what they want from vendors.
The aim of Senate ...
September 21, 2018
Meeting video stream backed; legislative panel picks North Little Rock firm
A panel wants legislative staff to use a North Little Rock firm to provide video production equipment and information technology for video-streaming committee meetings in the Multi-Agency Complex, jus...
September 20, 2018
Justice is selected for casino challenges
Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Wednesday appointed Little Rock District Judge Hugh Finkelstein as a special associate Supreme Court justice to consider two legal challenges to a proposed constitutional amendm...
September 20, 2018
1 ethics rule ditched, 1 backed; state senators reject disclosure of less than $1,000 in income
The Arkansas Senate ethics committee on Tuesday called for eliminating a new rule that requires senators to disclose their sources of income below $1,000 a year, but the panel stopped short of recomme...
September 19, 2018
Tribe's funds to OK casinos in Arkansas put at $1.4M
The Quapaw tribe in August gave $191,000 to the Driving Arkansas Forward committee promoting the proposed constitutional amendment that would authorize four casinos in Arkansas.
The donation boosted t...
September 18, 2018
State hearings start for 2 ballot measures
Court-appointed special masters began hearings over the weekend to determine whether a pair of citizen-initiated ballot measures can stand up to legal challenges before the November election.
Issues 3...
September 18, 2018
Crawford touts Cash for statue at Capitol
U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford has suggested to both Gov. Asa Hutchinson and state Sen. David Wallace on different occasions over the past year that someone of late musician Johnny Cash's stature would be an...
September 15, 2018
Correction agencies on Arkansas governor's merger list
Gov. Asa Hutchinson will propose merging the Correction Department and Community Correction as part of his plan to reduce to fewer than 20 the number of state agencies reporting to him, Hutchinson tol...
September 14, 2018
Debate renewed on D.C. statues: Which prominent Arkansans should be depicted at U.S. Capitol?
Senate Republican leader Bart Hester of Cave Springs said Wednesday that he is drafting legislation to replace the two statues the state donated to the U.S. Capitol with figures of more prominent Arka...
September 13, 2018
Arkansas casino measure faces 2nd lawsuit
An attorney for a Russellville-based committee opposed to a proposal to authorize four casinos in Arkansas said the group will ask the state Supreme Court today to yank the measure from the general el...
September 12, 2018