OPINION | BRENDA BLAGG: Pay close attention to the details, not just Arkansas’ campaign ads
Perhaps campaign advertising should contain a simple warning: The following may contain falsehoods or misleading assertions amid kernels of truth.
Perhaps campaign advertising should contain a simple warning: The following may contain falsehoods or misleading assertions amid kernels of truth.
Arkansas officials this week projected that barely more than half of this state's eligible voters will bother to vote in the Nov. 8 general election.
With early voting starting next week in Arkansas, here are some quick tips for voters not yet prepared to vote in the Nov. 8 general election.
Let's make this simple. Arkansas voters should reject all four of the proposed constitutional amendments on the Nov.8 ballot.
The Arkansas Supreme Court's review of that pending lawsuit over a recreational marijuana amendment came to a quick conclusion last week.
Yes, recreational marijuana is on Arkansas' Nov. 8 general election ballot.
Recent news reports painted a bleak financial picture for one gubernatorial candidate and underscored a huge advantage for another.
The Arkansas School Safety Commission continues to fine tune its recommendations, which are due to Gov. Asa Hutchinson later this year.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson got what he wanted last week, both in terms of what the Arkansas Legislature did in special session and in the way it happened.
This is a week of celebration, despondence, disbelief, anger, worry and fear for Americans.
Changing who decides whether to certify the popular name and ballot title of ballot issues in Arkansas apparently hasn't taken controversy out of the process.
Months deep into their investigation of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, House Select Committee members do not mince words.
Legalization of recreational marijuana and a proposal to keep a casino out of Pope County may be on Arkansas' general election ballot in November.
If you haven't yet tuned into the ongoing hearings about the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, it is high time you did.
The availability of abortion care for Arkansas women disappeared quickly last week.
Perhaps expectations were unduly low as the Jan. 6 insurrection committee hearings began last week.
Be honest. Just how much do you really know about the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol?
Buffalo, N.Y., couldn't even bury the last of the grandmothers gunned down in a grocery store before there was another mass murder in this country.
Candidates weren't the only ones anxious to know the outcome of Tuesday's Arkansas primary elections.
Another mass shooting. More innocent victims, this time the obvious targets of a hate crime.
Legislation to codify the Roe v. Wade protections for abortion rights can't pass the U.S. Senate, so why will the Senate consider it?
The premature release of a U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion that signals Roe vs. Wade will be overturned is reinvigorating women voters, stirring political pas…
Arkansas could be sitting on a $1 billion general revenue surplus as the fiscal year ends on June 30.
With primary elections scarcely more than a month away, this has to rank as one of the more uninformative political seasons in Arkansas in recent memory.
Soon-to-be Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson finally got the respect she was due last week at the White House celebration of her historic confirmatio…
The courts can move quickly after all.
Four new state voter laws, each of which was recently declared unconstitutional, could still complicate the upcoming May elections.
Soon, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will be a U.S. Supreme Court associate justice. Or, she certainly should be.
Sunshine Week, America's celebration of the public's right to know what its governments do, comes this year at a particularly sobering time.
The surprise, if there was one with the close of the state's political filing period last week, was that so many people actually want to hold office in this ti…
It has been 50 years now since some determined Arkansas people, led by conservationists and outdoors enthusiasts, saved the Buffalo River for the rest of us.
The Arkansas Senate apparently won't be taking up any of three anti-abortion bills in the ongoing fiscal session.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Monday set an ambitious agenda for the Arkansas Legislature as it convened for this year's fiscal session.
There is really no excuse for the Republican National Committee's description of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol as "ordinary citizens engag…
Gov. Asa Hutchinson certainly tried to take full advantage of the exposure offered by his chairmanship of the National Governors Association and its recent con…
The filing period hasn't even opened, yet this year's governor's race in Arkansas appears to be over.
As the New Year dawned, Arkansas was again experiencing a spike in new covid-19 cases.
Litigation over redistricting in Arkansas was fully expected. But it has come with unexpected, additional controversy.
The new year begins with the nation at a political crossroads.
The message preached by state and federal authorities is the same it has been for months: Get vaccinated to protect yourself, your family and others in this on…
People the world over will remember this Christmas.
Thank you to the 23 Arkansas state senators and 61 state representatives who knew it was time to go home last week and voted to adjourn the special session of …
As Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders prepares for an apparent cake walk to her party's nomination for Arkansas governor, there's a bit more mystery about who s…
Leslie Rutledge wasn't the first Republican to bow out of Arkansas' 2022 governor's race.
Arkansas' piece of the $1 trillion federal infrastructure bill is something more than $4 billion in funding for the next five years.
Covid-19 has directly touched more Arkansans than you might imagine.
Proposed apportionment maps released last week likely define how most Arkansas legislative districts will be drawn for the next 10 years.
Arkansas Supreme Court members broke out their dictionaries to resolve long-running, controversial litigation for the sole casino license for Pope County.