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State Sen. Alan Clark (R-Lonsdale) cast the decisive 27th vote in favor of granting Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s appropriation to the Department of Human Services funding the state’s health care coverage for low-income Arkansans called Arkansas Works. The bill now heads to the…
Election night 1992 brought a horde of people to the steps of the Old State House in Little Rock, where Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, along with his wife and daughter, and Tennessee Sen. Al Gore and his family, were waiting. Just after…
Arkansas has executed Ledell Lee, who was convicted of murdering a woman in 1993, 20 April 2018. The execution came shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the lethal injection. I covered the story from the Cummins Unit of…
Monday the state begins executing death row inmates. Seven in all. But today, as Christians everywhere marked the Passion of Jesus, an anti-death penalty throng converged on the steps of the Capitol. Little Rock Diocesan Bishop Anthony Taylor reminded the crowd —…
FINALIST, SPORTS FEATURE, 2015 NATIONAL SOCIETY OF FEATURES JOURNALISTS PROSPER, Texas — If ever there was an appropriate place for Torii Hunter to land, it’s here. The all-star outfielder who, in his 17th season, still musters the skills to merit $10.5 million…
THIS PROFILE APPEARED IN THE ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE ON DEC. 1, 2013. The greatest thing ever to happen to Little Rock in the modern era may not have been the 1992 election of Bill Clinton to the presidency. It may have happened 12…
THIS PROFILE APPEARED IN THE NOVEMBER, 2011 ISSUE OF ARKANSAS LIFE. There’s fewer than 300 miles separating Portsmouth, NH, and the southern tip of New Brunswick, and well more than 3,000 miles of rocky coastline. For every mile north as the crow…
The Gala for Life on Friday at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock will be the brightest night of stars in the constellation social calendar. The bad news is tickets are $500, but the good news is they’ve sold out anyway….