On this week’s podcast: The latest on ballot initiatives (marijuana, casinos and abortion), a check-in on Little Rock city news, and Central Arkansas’s dismal record on pedestrian deaths.
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Direct democracy vs. bureaucracy: The Week in Review for July 19, 2024
On this week’s podcast: How Arkansas uses red tape to subvert the petition process, the retirement of UA System President Donald Bobbitt and an update on the Little Rock city board.
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Abortion amendment chaos: The week in review podcast, July 13, 2024
On this week’s episode, Austin, Benji and Omaya discuss the wild turn of events over the Arkansas Abortion Amendment.
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Arkansas Times Film Series screens ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’ (1985) Tuesday night
In Susan Seidelman’s “Desperately Seeking Susan,” housewife Roberta Glass reads the personals section and is taken by the story of the bold and mysterious Susan Thomas (Madonna, in her first major screen role) and Jim Dandy, who appear to be involved in a torrid love affair. Their lives soon become dramatically mixed up.
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Presidential debate fallout with Dave Ramsey: The Week in Review for June 29th, 2024
This week: A disaster of a presidential debate and disaster of a Supreme Court.
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Get the F(OIA) Outta Here: The Week In Review for June 22, 2024
On this week’s podcast: Rhetorical funny business on tax cuts and state surplus, canvassers face harassment, and dashcam footage released in the Malinowski shooting.
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The tax cuts are coming: The Week in Review for June 16, 2024
This week: A terrible shooting in a library parking lot, a new lawsuit against Arkansas LEARNS and more.
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Arkansas: abortion-free in ’23? The Week in Review, June 9, 2024
This week: A settlement with Exxon, 11 years later. SCOTUS revives a gerrymandering case, but it faces long odds. And, fact and fiction on the state’s abortion numbers.
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Sarah Sanders doesn’t want you to sign: The Week In Review podcast, June 2, 2024
On this week’s podcast: Matt Campbell on petitioners being hassled by the LRPD and Baker Kurrus on education vendor Solution Tree.
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Tim Griffin targets abortion by mail: The Week in Review, May 25th, 2024
Plus, what’s in the Educational Rights Amendment and shady campaign donations to a state Supreme Court justice.