Jim Hudson, Secretary of the Department of Finance and Administration and the state’s chief fiscal officer, is confused. Or maybe he’s just not telling the truth.
Sarah Hucakbee Sanders
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Supreme Court denies attorney general’s request to expedite appeal in corrections board dispute
The attorney general’s office did not respond to a request for comment regarding both today’s decision and the question of consolidating the two cases.
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State’s estimates of 1.5 million eclipse tourists next month are shady at best
The only people who think Arkansas will see over a million visitors for the eclipse seem to be people whose job is promoting tourism.
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The queen’s gambit: Gov. Sanders and Co. play political games with overcrowded prisons
The governor’s plan to add more people to existing prisons, regardless of capacity or prison staffing, has her at loggerheads with the state Board of Corrections.
Posted inArkansas Blog
Sanders touts administration’s transparency in KARK interview. (No, seriously. She actually did that.)
She might as well have bragged about her fiscal conservatism, since words have no meaning anymore.
Posted inArkansas Blog
Corrections secretary to remain under control of board, not governor, at least for now
The Board of Corrections largely prevailed at the courthouse Thursday amid a bomb scare and revelations that Corrections Secretary Joe Profiri might not be a very nice guy to work with.
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Attorney general doubles down in obstructing Board of Corrections from hiring attorney in FOIA case
There’s simply no way the attorney general’s office can plausibly claim at this point that no one has told them the board needs outside counsel.
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A quick update on the pending Board of Corrections lawsuits
With a hearing next Wednesday in one of the two lawsuits, here’s a look at where both cases stand as of right now.
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Trump and Putin
For whatever solace it might offer, one positive from Vladimir Putin’s genocide and plunder of Ukraine is that we no longer have to wait in ignorance for some future revelation — perhaps from a source such as, let’s say, the Kremlin archives in 2052 — of what lay behind the strange and now nearly decade-old partnership of the little dictator and the future leader of the free world.