Lawmakers look to lock legal services fund after gov’s sweep A pair of lawmakers and a group of attorneys are calling on the legislature to pass into law a bill that they say would prevent the governor from stripping cash from a fund meant to support civil ... 05/15/2024 - 5:18 am | View Link
Arkansas legislature’s failure to settle on appropriation bill for state agency rare occurrence The failure to approve an appropriation for the Game and Fish Commission means the agency won't be able to spend money beginning July 1, unless Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders calls a special ... 05/11/2024 - 10:41 pm | View Link
Legislature in gridlock with AGFC regarding funding After the Arkansas House of Representatives failed an appropriation for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission on Thursday, the legislature is now in a gridlock with the agency.The Senate and House ... 05/10/2024 - 11:20 am | View Link
Legislature adjourns with no funding for Game and Fish Thursday, a second attempt was made to fund the department after ongoing controversy about the directors salary. 05/10/2024 - 7:50 am | View Link
Legislature agrees to add unspent COVID money to state spending plan State legislators voted Tuesday to add up to $400 million in expiring federal COVID-19 funds to the previously approved $26 billion spending plan for the upcoming budget year. Slight bipartisan majori ... 05/8/2024 - 5:58 am | View Link
California U. S. Senate candidate Steve Garvey’s (R) property taxes are being paid by Sisters in Christ LLC, an organization that includes his sister-in-law as a manager, the Sacramento Bee reports.
It’s not clear what Sisters in Christ’s activities include.
“The Biden administration said Tuesday that it is releasing 1 million barrels of gasoline from a Northeast reserve established after Superstorm Sandy in a bid to lower prices at the pump this summer,” the AP reports.
“Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that he is open to allowing states to restrict access to birth control and promised to release a ‘comprehensive policy’ on the issue soon,” the Washington Post reports.
Said Trump: “We’re looking at that, and I’m going to have a policy on that very shortly, and I think it’s something that you’ll find interesting.
Politico: “Hogan’s first general election ad is set to air Wednesday, and it’s entirely about abortion. In it, the former governor goes direct-to-camera as he endorses codifying the abortion protections the nation had under Roe v. Wade.”
Said Hogan, in the ad: “With Roe overturned, many have asked what I’ll do in the United States Senate.
And unsealed filing in Donald Trump’s classified documents case says there were two rounds of documents discovered at Mar-a-Lago after the FBI conducted its search.
Jacob Heilbrunn: “Mr. Trump’s economic and foreign policy nationalism would subvert the preponderance of power that America has enjoyed since 1945 and that he has promised to bolster. It has been threatened from without but never from within.”
“As he vows to upend America’s relations with the rest of the globe, the danger is not that Mr.