Arkansas Times

Today in Arkansas: Rain, schools and politics

Title: Today in Arkansas: Rain, schools and politics
Runtime: 5:12
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Arkansas news on Friday, April 29: Rain and highway construction don't mix. Group calls for Education commissioner's firing. New LR school leader makes rounds. Poverty and poor school scores. How the rich buy universities. Humanizing Hillary. Jury gets dentist molestation case.

Today in Arkansas: Meet the Superintendent

Title: Today in Arkansas: Meet the Superintendent
Runtime: 6:11
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Today in Arkansas, Thursday, April 28: Meeting the new LR school superintendent. Watching the GOP oppress women, the poor and zoning regulators. UALR chancellor finalists. A win for FOI on accident reports. Truth in highways. Smart kids.

Title: Today in Arkansas: Freeway fighting
Runtime: 5:59
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Arkansas news on Wednesday, April 27: A consensus emerges on the 10-lane I-30 project, but opposition remains. Segregation in LR schools draws national attention. Legislators target the Capitol zoning agency. Fort Smith's lack of diversity in city employment. Walmart mute on transgender restroom policy. Rutledge blocks ethics measure. Trump v. Clinton

Today In Arkansas: Chinese pick Clark County

Title: Today In Arkansas: Chinese pick Clark County
Runtime: 4:53
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Arkansas news on Tuesday, April 26: Chinese company to build billion-dollar pulp mill in Arkadelphia. GOP lawmaker has idea to improve campaign finance reporting. More loopholes in ethics law. Senator targets Capitol planning agency. I-30 hearing preceded by news of 'compromise.' Marijuana amendment cleared for petitions. Gay rights at NASCAR and J.B. Hunt.

Title: Today in Arkansas: Rallying for Schools
Runtime: 5:21
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Arkansas news on Monday, April 25: Little Rock School District parents, students and teachers are rallying to protest the firing of popular superintendent Baker Kurrus. Rep. Jana Della Rosa has an idea to improve accountability on campaign spending. Capi Peck and Molly Miller offer a revolution at City Hall. UA says future of Arkansas depends on football stadium expansion. Mike Maggio remains free on appeal of bribery conviction. Hillary's old Olds commands a big price on eBay.

Title: Today in Arkansas: Sexual politics
Runtime: 5:26
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Arkansas news on Friday, April 22 includes mixed news on the LGBT front. Good from J.B. Hunt. Bad, as ever, from the Family Council, intent on replicating North Carolina's bathroom law debacle. Also: A departure at Youth Services; school protest set; pollution fears; a job for Beebe; a deSoto archaeological find,.

Today in Arkansas: Medicaid deal is done

Title: Today in Arkansas: Medicaid deal is done
Runtime: 6:33
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Arkansas news on Thursday, April 21: The Obamacare-financed Medicaid expansion heads to enactment. More anger about the Hutchinson administration's ouster of Little Rock school chief Baker Kurrus. Sen. John Boozman flops as legislator on energy line. Nursing homes are scheming to deprive damaged payments of redress in court.; Metrocentre property owners want to cash in on a famous statue. Historic Mount Holly cemetery vandalized. And, whoa: Donald Trump makes sense.

Title: Today in Arkansas: Obamacare lives
Runtime: 5:44
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Arkansas news on Wednesday, April 20. Obamacare will survive in Arkansas. The legislature is on board. Fallout continues from the Hutchinson administration's axing of Baker Kurrus as Little Rock school superintendent. Asa and Rapert want to stop payment for emergency contraceptives. A black eye for online charter schools. A new public sculpture for Little Rock. Harriet Tubman coming to your $20s.

Today In Arkansas: School daze; Medicaid wreck

Title: Today In Arkansas: School daze; Medicaid wreck
Runtime: 5:31
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The news in Arkansas on Tuesday, April 19 is all about the Hutchinson administration's ouster of the popular and utterly competent Little Rock school superintendent, Baker Kurrus, in favor of someone more likely to carry out the Walton school agenda (lots more charter schools). This ticked off Democratic legislators, who now have another reason not to roll over for a cockamamie scheme by Gov. Hutchinson by passing the Medicaid expansion by a vote AGAINST it. Oh, and yes, a federal court says, transgender people may choose to use the restroom they believe appropriate to their identified gender.

Today in Arkansas: Medicaid Charade Advances

Title: Today in Arkansas: Medicaid Charade Advances
Runtime: 5:26
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Today's Arkansas news, Monday, April 18: The governor and legislators work to clean up messy ruse to pass Medicaid expansion. Arkansans in the immigration fight. Asa touts state job cuts. Tom Cotton says the president isn't scaring people enough about terrorism. A backlash to LGBT discrimination in Mississippi? Opposition to 10-lane Interstate 30. Hogs in Top 20 in spending. Texas secession.

Today in Arkansas: Medicaid fight in holding pattern

Title: Today in Arkansas: Medicaid fight in holding pattern
Runtime: 6:39
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Arkansas news on Friday, April 15: A potential procedural detour around a Republican roadblock to the Medicaid expansion will have to wait until next week. Democrats doing due diligence. Some class action lawyers in trouble in Fort Smith. State pressed for stronger hog farm regs. Heritage Department runs into Senate roadblock over museum building. School report cards out. Jason Rapert!

Today in Arkansas: An end-around the Terrible Ten

Title: Today in Arkansas: An end-around the Terrible Ten
Runtime: 5:33
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Arkansas news on Thursday, April 14: The Hutchinson administration thinks it's found a procedural way around the blockade 10 Republican senators have erected to passage of Medicaid expansion: Also: State Board of Education; Louisiana governor outshines Arkansas on LGBT protection; a new wrinkle on downtown apartment development scrap; Med Center CEO to resign; LR schools up security.

Today in Arkansas: Budget drama heads to vote

Title: Today in Arkansas: Budget drama heads to vote
Runtime: 5:31
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Arkansas news on Wednesday, April 13. A key vote is expected tomorrow on the Medicaid spending bill, a vote on which the entire state budget might ride. A court victory for clean air. Criticism of the Highway Department's plan to widen Little Rock's downtown freeway. Pollution in Crossett from the Kochs' paper mill. A preservationist/developer fight in downtown Little Rock. Ray Thornton dies at 87.

Today In Arkansas: Asa says my way or no highways

Title: Today In Arkansas: Asa says my way or no highways
Runtime: 6:07
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Arkansas news on Tuesday, April 12: Gov. Hutchinson says you can forget a highway program if the legislature doesn't continue the Medic aid expansion. North Carolina governor feeling heat for anti-gay law similar to Arkansas's. Rubio and Cruz backers plot to deny Trump in Arkansas. Attorney General Rutledge blocks good ethics law. History versus apartments in downtown Little Rock. An opponent for Joan Adcock. Jason Rapert mixes church and state.

Today in Arkansas: Will they or won't they?

Title: Today in Arkansas: Will they or won't they?
Runtime: 5:50
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: With a legislative session to begin Wednesday, the looming question is whether a tiny minority of the legislature will block the entire Medicaid budget rather than allow the Obamacare Medicaid expansion to continue. Also today: Rep. Josh Miller leads the hypocrite trophy race; rice growers promote trade with Cuba; state universities face criticism over recruiting out of state for students; legislature seeks to expand control of executive agencies; women are paid less but live longer and they'll get a price break on Equal Pay Day.

Today in Arkansas: All over but the fighting

Title: Today in Arkansas: All over but the fighting
Runtime: 4:39
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: News Headlines for April 8 2016

Today in Arkansas: Arkansas Works -- this week, at least

Title: Today in Arkansas: Arkansas Works -- this week, at least
Runtime: 5:38
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Arkansas news on Thursday, April 7. The legislature approves Arkansas Works, the governor's reworking of Obamacare's Medicaid expansion. But troubles lie ahead. Bernie Sanders runs into problems. 'Tourism' ad rips Mississippi/N.C. bias. Legislature practices medicine. Arkansas photographer lands on stamp. A day for giving and we suggest Lucie's Place.

Today in Arkansas: Quiet before the storm

Title: Today in Arkansas: Quiet before the storm
Runtime: 6:28
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Arkansas news on Wednesday, April 6. The special legislative session is uneventful. Next week? That might be another matter. Also: Camera-shy John Boozman; gun-toting election commissioner gets sued; Little Rock loves flashing billboards; I-30 concepts look complicated; Attorney General Rutledge goes national with defense of anti-LGBT laws; reduce drinking at tailgates? Say it ain't so.

Today in Arkansas: Air let out of special session

Title: Today in Arkansas: Air let out of special session
Runtime: 5:18
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Arkansas news on Tuesday, April 5: Gov. Hutchinson bows to intense legislative opposition and drops a managed care Medicaid proposal from the special session agenda, leaving not much. Mississippi has even gone past Arkansas in passing laws to allow discrimination against gay people. A new angle on lawsuit to stop legislative pork barreling. Poll shows strong support for better public ethics law. On the happier side: A brainy PA student and a debate about an official state book.

Today in Arkansas: The fight for Asacare

Title: Today in Arkansas: The fight for Asacare
Runtime: 5:55
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Arkansas news on Monday, April 4: A fierce battle rages behind the scenes over Gov. Hutchinson's proposals to continue Obamacare's Medicaid expansion and put some of conventional Medicaid under managed care. Is the fox in the henhouse? State money is coming in at a healthy clip. Early warning about pay raise talks for politicians. Details on secret spending on judicial races. Arkansas's glacial Internet. A controversial teacher. A Google legacy. New at the Zoo.

Today in Arkansas: Waltonizing Little Rock schools

Title: Today in Arkansas: Waltonizing Little Rock schools
Runtime: 6:30
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Arkansas headlines on Friday, April 1 are no joke. The state Board of Education votes to expand charter schools and thus further segregate Little Rock schools. Lots of related parties and political angles in a recent UA Board decision on who to hire for Razorback stadium expansion work. A Texas abortion law dreadfully punishes a pregnant woman and we have same law. Welfare reform is a bust and Arkansas is the worst of the worst. Gun drawn at Jefferson County Election Commission meeting -- a racial and partisan tinderbox.

Today in Arkansas: Segregating schools again

Title: Today in Arkansas: Segregating schools again
Runtime: 5:49
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Arkansas news on Thursday, March 31 includes a decision by state officials tonight on whether they'll allow charter schools to expand and further segregate the Little Rock School District. If Walton money talks, they will. Also on the agenda: Corporate welfare; fraud in a feeding program; concerns about billboards; a victory for abortion rights; a new Little Rock coach, and a proselytizing, liberal-hating teacher at Mills High.

Today in Arkansas: All about health care

Title: Today in Arkansas: All about health care
Runtime: 5:34
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Arkansas news on Wednesday, March 30 leads with Gov. Asa Hutchinson's plea for continuation of Obamacare-financed Medicaid expansion. UAMS will be wrecked otherwise. Also: David Pryor presses for Razorback stadium information; SEC honors a professor (really!); Baker Kurrus makes case against hurried charter school expansion; Leslie Rutledge fights to preserve legal LGBT discrimination; Crystal Bridges goes modern; pest controllers start a panic in Hot Springs.

Title: Today In Arkansas: A new ethics law
Runtime: 6:00
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Arkansas headlines on Tuesday, March 29, include a proposal to tighten the state's ethics law. Also: Benefits of the tobacco lawsuit money; national attention to the downtown freeway debacle; the benefit of the minimum wage increase; more jail time for former sheriff; the overwhelming whiteness of private schools; the godless and robots converge on University of Arkansas.

Today in Arkansas: Welfare, 'reform' and human rights

Title: Today in Arkansas: Welfare, 'reform' and human rights
Runtime: 6:41
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Today in Arkansas, Monday, March 28: Evidence mounts that drug testing welfare recipients is a waste. Ethics reform hasn't worked out so well either. Courtney Goodson piles up huge personal campaign debt. Human rights under siege in Texarkana, but get a lift from the governor of Georgia. UALR loses its basketball coach. Billboard companies angle for more flash on the freeway.

Today In Arkansas: Asa pitches Obamacare extension

Title: Today In Arkansas: Asa pitches Obamacare extension
Runtime: 4:28
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Today in Arkansas, Friday, March 25: Gov. Asa Hutchinson outlines his plan to continue the Obamacare-funded Medicaid expansion and turning some Medicaid-paid services over to managed care. A power line gets approval through Arkansas. Unemployment rate is down. Voters signal desire for Senate to act on court nominee. Dallas Cowboys missing in NFL concussion study. A Cotton-
Trump ticket? How else to explain Cotton's kind remarks.

Today in Arkansas: Judge hammers Mike Maggio

Title: Today in Arkansas: Judge hammers Mike Maggio
Runtime: 5:50
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Today in Arkansas, Thursday, March 24: Mike Maggio, the former judge who admitted taking a bribe, got a maximum 10-year federal sentence today. No answers yet on who, if anyonje, might be next. Governor's Obamacare extension bill being circulated. Ethics Commission probes Conservative Arkansas PAC. David Pryor has questions about massive Razorback Stadium project. Little Rock middle school okayed by judge. The latest political movement: Legal nudity.

Today in Arkansas: Asa's new drug test order

Title: Today in Arkansas: Asa's new drug test order
Runtime: 6:23
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Arkansas news on Wednesday, March 23. Gov. Asa Hutchinson is going statewide with drug-testing of certain welfare recipients, something that has been held unconstitutional elsewhere. He's also running to resistance on his proposal to keep the Obamacare Medicaid expansion. Also: Feds get tough on Mike Maggio; state Board of Education accused of law violation; a vote to end King/Lee holiday; presidential primary results; Jerry Jones doubts science on football-caused brain damage.

Today In Arkansas: The response to terrorism

Title: Today In Arkansas: The response to terrorism
Runtime: 4:59
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Today in Arkansas, Tuesday, March 22: Sen. Tom Cotton suggest military action in response to Belgium terror attack. The people -- and the founding fathers -- want the Senate to vote on the Supreme Court nominee. Pulaski County backs undoing of joint Lee/King holiday. Tyson loses a big class action case. Mike Maggio begs for leniency on bribery charge. More downtown development. Attorney general sides with Bible-quoting city Facebook pages. An eloquent woman responds to an insulting Fayetteville alderman.

Today in Arkansas: Does Cotton cotton to Trump?

Title: Today in Arkansas: Does Cotton cotton to Trump?
Runtime: 5:05
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Arkansas news on Monday, March 21. Donald Trump meets up with Tom Cotton. Warren Stephens finances anti-Trump PAC. Booneville Human Development Center needs improvement. Preacher/legisator Donnie Copeland has his apartments condemned in Jacksonville. State Board of Education flouts FOI law. Fayetteville alderman insults restaurant worker. Booze petitions hit Rutledge roadblock. Stoby's vows to rebuilt after fire.

Today in Arkansas: Charter school fight goes to court

Title: Today in Arkansas: Charter school fight goes to court
Runtime: 4:51
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Today in Arkansas, Friday, March 18: A motion in federal court seeks to halt charter school expansions in Little Rock. Meanwhile, in a big mess, state Board of Education pulls back a request to stop reviews of charter school expansions. A couple of Arkansas congressmen tout their endorsement by a hate group. An ASU dean says he's not worried about concealed carry on campus. Bob Lancaster pays a visit. Little Rock upsets Purdue in NCAA opener.

Title: Today in Arkansas: How to elect judges
Runtime: 5:21
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Today in Arkansas, Thursday, March 17: Talk grows serious about judicial elections -- both finance and selection methods. A powerful stench surrounds state Board meet on charter schools. Court preserves death penalty appeal. Riverfest announces its lineup. The Hot Springs mayor, the St. Patrick's Day Parade and Hitler. Yes, Hitler.

Today in Arkansas: A Supreme Court nominee

Title: Today in Arkansas: A Supreme Court nominee
Runtime: 6:24
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Arkansas news on Wednesday, March 16. Arkansas Republicans vow to block Merrick Garland's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. Hillary sweeps Super Tuesday. LR cops reducing their use of force. Black community fears Gov. Hutchinson's aims at history museum. A call for more library money. Critic hits Walmartizing of education. A massive fraud in kids' feeding program.

Today In Arkansas: Presidential primary day

Title: Today In Arkansas: Presidential primary day
Runtime: 4:53
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Today's headlines, Tuesday, March 15: All eyes are on the presidential primaries, particularly in Ohio and Florida. A federal judge has blocked another unconstitutional Arkansas anti-abortion law. Obama hopes popular opinion will break Senate logjam on Supreme Court appointment. Pulaski Schools plan new schools, but charter school people don't want that kind of competition. A random shooting and frozen body round out the report.

Today in Arkansas: Another Super Tuesday

Title: Today in Arkansas: Another Super Tuesday
Runtime: 5:38
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Today in Arkansas, Monday, March 14: Sanders closes gap in Super Tuesday states. Storms hit marina, prisons. State's top environmental regulator dodges climate change question. State bill rises on unconstitutional abortion bill. Senator pushes for library money. Police chief problems. Little Rock -- Arkansas's Team. Donald Trump on women.

Title: Today in Arkansas: Black Lives Matter
Runtime: 4:50
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Today in Arkansas, Friday, March 11: Yep, still raining. Amusement comes in Rubio-Kasich sniping in race for president. Also: Black Lives Matter T-shirts removed from state black history museum. (After taping, with state feeling heat, the decision was rescinded.) A look at campaign debt of judicial candidates. Innocent plea by judge in son's death. Arkasnas Twitter users are nicer than most other states. Really.

Today in Arkansas: Judge bribery plea stands

Title: Today in Arkansas: Judge bribery plea stands
Runtime: 5:27
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Today in Arkansas, Thursday, March 10: Mike Maggio fails to get bribery charge dismissed. Pulaski County and Helena schools released from state control. Charter school fight rages. Supreme Court reverses decades of precedent on divorce property settlements. Asa cuts Health Department by 106 jobs. UA football payroll hits $8 million. Death of KUAR general manager Ben Fry. Pundits score Hillary loser in last night's debate.

Title: Today in Arkansas: Primary colors
Runtime: 6:11
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Today in Arkansas, Wednesday, March 9. Trump and Sanders primary victories continue to confound the "experts.' Angry white men like them both. The charter school fight continues. Democrats hope to win concessions from Gov. Huchinson. A right-wing senator proposes to slash AETN and sell War Memorial Stadium. A delay in the Broadway Bridge closure. (Yea!). Paul McCartney is coming to town.

Title: Today In Arkansas: State money tight
Runtime: 5:19
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Today in Arkansas, Tuesday, March 8: The governor has a budget (thank you Obamacare). No pay raise for state employees. Democrats try to leverage something out of their votes for the governor's plan. Dennis Milligan proposes fat pay raise for -- Ed Garner of all people. Arrest in Conway hotel slaying. Camden protects Internet merchants. Stephens goes after Senate candidate. More presidential votes tonight.

Today in Arkansas: The Obamacare windfall

Title: Today in Arkansas: The Obamacare windfall
Runtime: 6:51
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Arkansas news on Monday, March 7: The value of Obamacare to the state budget is even greater than previously thought. Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin has recommended an overhaul of the state Human Services Department. Winners and losers in the presidential race. The KKK endorses Donald Trump. A Turkish charter school chain draws fire. Global warming. A way to discourage abortions, if only legislators would support contraception.

Today in Arkansas: Voter backlash to GOP obstruction

Title: Today in Arkansas: Voter backlash to GOP obstruction
Runtime: 5:00
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: News from Arkansas on Friday, Oct. 4: National polling finds a trend that could figure in a U.S. Senate race here. Voters think Congress should consider an Obama Supreme Court nominee and think ill of obstructionists. Also: Donald Trump did what!?! Andrea Lea caught prevaricating. Jay Dickey gets right on guns. LR museums open new exhibits.

Today in Arkansas: The best judges money can buy

Title: Today in Arkansas: The best judges money can buy
Runtime: 4:14
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Arkansas news on Thursday, March 3: Dark money wins Supreme Court races; NOW Asa wants judicial appointments; Democrats push for stronger ethics laws; Republican opposition to clean air loses another round at Supreme Court; lawsuit challenges LR cab monopoly; Quapaw Tribe rips Oaklawn for opposition to trust application.