Hoots, hollers and high fives at the Arkansas Capitol Friday as abortion rights volunteers delivered the signatures needed to get on the November ballot.
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IT’S ON! Enough signatures collected to put abortion rights on Arkansas ballot
100,000 and counting. That’s how many Arkansans signed on to push back against our state’s near-total abortion ban.
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Anti-abortion groups target pro-choice ballot measures nationwide, including in Arkansas
In Arkansas and elsewhere, anti-abortion activists have concluded that it’s best not to give the people a vote.
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Doxed and scared, a canvasser for abortion, MMJ rights stays the course
Signature gathering isn’t letting up to put issues before the voters, despite a jab from opponents who published paid canvassers’ names and home cities. Can the Family Council really claim that its mission is protecting Arkansas families when it endangered so many of them in one fell swoop?
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Conservative group publishes names of signature collectors for the Arkansas Abortion Amendment
Who would Jesus dox?
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‘Grow your own’ and more: What’s in the 2024 medical marijuana amendment
Two outspoken marijuana advocates who fought a recreational marijuana proposal in 2022 are lending their support to a 2024 amendment. What’s different this time? “They gave me everything I asked for,” Fults said.
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Even the Family Council opposes the twisted bill to criminalize abortion as murder
The Family Council remains all for going after abortion providers, but charging women with murder is a bridge too far even for them.
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Lawmakers go after drag shows as Arkansas’s culture war rages on
Members of the Arkansas Senate’s City, County & Local Affairs Committee faced off Thursday with an eclectic crowd of people who listed reasons cultural, spiritual, religious and constitutional for why Senate Bill 43 has it wrong. The committee passed the bill anyway.
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A marijuana post-mortem with David Couch
We caught up with Couch to get his thoughts on the election, why he thinks the amendment failed and the prospects for a recreational marijuana amendment in the future.
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Why Issue 4 is right for Arkansas
Issue 4 can’t solve every problem in one fell swoop – few laws can do that. But what Issue 4 absolutely will do is to serve as a critically important stepping stone for cannabis reform in Arkansas.