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Arkansas is a great state for politics, and benefits from readers who want to know how their tax dollars are being spent.
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State legislators are taking steps to curb aggressive driving. Between 2013 and 2022, the number of traffic-related deaths in the U.S. increased by nearly 23%, according to a CDC report.
✍️: @stateline.org
✍️: @stateline.org
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December 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
State legislators are taking steps to curb aggressive driving. Between 2013 and 2022, the number of traffic-related deaths in the U.S. increased by nearly 23%, according to a CDC report.
✍️: @stateline.org
✍️: @stateline.org
Recent investments across the region have positioned China to source more agricultural products from Latin America as it pivots away from U.S. farmers in response to President Trump’s higher tariffs.
✍️: Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk
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✍️: Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk
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December 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Recent investments across the region have positioned China to source more agricultural products from Latin America as it pivots away from U.S. farmers in response to President Trump’s higher tariffs.
✍️: Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk
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✍️: Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk
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Homeless youth say they need more from schools, social services arkansasadvocate.com/2025/12/24/r...
Homeless youth say they need more from schools, social services | Arkansas Advocate
As more cities impose bans, fines or jail time for adults living on the streets, young people who have been homeless say they face unique problems that could have been addressed earlier.
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December 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Homeless youth say they need more from schools, social services arkansasadvocate.com/2025/12/24/r...
China is investing billions in Latin America, potentially sidelining US farmers for decades to come arkansasadvocate.com/2025/12/24/c...
China is investing billions in Latin America, potentially sidelining US farmers for decades to come | Arkansas Advocate
Recent investments across the region have positioned China to source more agricultural products from Latin America as it pivots away from U.S. farmers in response to President Trump’s higher tariffs.
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December 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
China is investing billions in Latin America, potentially sidelining US farmers for decades to come arkansasadvocate.com/2025/12/24/c...
States reject plan to block gender-affirming — what HHS calls ‘sex rejecting’ — care arkansasadvocate.com/2025/12/24/r...
States reject plan to block gender-affirming -- what HHS calls 'sex rejecting' -- care | Arkansas Advocate
Maryland joined 18 states and the District of Columbia Tuesday in a suit challenging a Health and Human Services declaration last week that health care facilities offering gender-affirming care to min...
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December 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
States reject plan to block gender-affirming — what HHS calls ‘sex rejecting’ — care arkansasadvocate.com/2025/12/24/r...
Trump administration to garnish wages for defaulted student loans arkansasadvocate.com/2025/12/23/r...
Trump administration to garnish wages for defaulted student loans | Arkansas Advocate
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration will start garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers in default beginning early next year, the U.S. Education Department said Tuesday.
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December 24, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Trump administration to garnish wages for defaulted student loans arkansasadvocate.com/2025/12/23/r...
Nursing home owner pardoned by Trump asks for extension before he has to report to Arkansas prison arkansasadvocate.com/2025/12/23/n...
Nursing home owner pardoned by Trump asks for extension before he has to report to Arkansas prison | Arkansas Advocate
A former nursing home owner pardoned by President Donald Trump asked a judge Tuesday for a delay before he has to report to an Arkansas prison to serve his state sentence, citing concerns that the sta...
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December 23, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Nursing home owner pardoned by Trump asks for extension before he has to report to Arkansas prison arkansasadvocate.com/2025/12/23/n...
Growing soybeans has become less profitable over the last decade as input costs rose and the Trump administration’s tariff negotiations in 2018 and 2025 destabilized trade and strained farmers’ incomes.
✍️: Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk
✍️: Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk
December 23, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Growing soybeans has become less profitable over the last decade as input costs rose and the Trump administration’s tariff negotiations in 2018 and 2025 destabilized trade and strained farmers’ incomes.
✍️: Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk
✍️: Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk
Trump appears in several files of latest Epstein release arkansasadvocate.com/2025/12/23/r...
Trump appears in several files of latest Epstein release | Arkansas Advocate
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Justice early Tuesday released thousands more files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with several referencing President Donald Trump.
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December 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Trump appears in several files of latest Epstein release arkansasadvocate.com/2025/12/23/r...
The U.S. Department of Justice has sent a confidential draft agreement to more than a dozen states that would require election officials to remove any alleged ineligible voters identified during a federal review of their voter rolls.
✍️: @stateline.org
✍️: @stateline.org
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December 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The U.S. Department of Justice has sent a confidential draft agreement to more than a dozen states that would require election officials to remove any alleged ineligible voters identified during a federal review of their voter rolls.
✍️: @stateline.org
✍️: @stateline.org
Measles cases rise amid holiday travel arkansasadvocate.com/2025/12/23/r...
Measles cases rise amid holiday travel | Arkansas Advocate
Measles case are continuing to grow, reaching 1,958 confirmed cases in 43 states through Dec. 16 and threatening to undo next year the United States’ status as a nation that has eradicated the disease...
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December 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Measles cases rise amid holiday travel arkansasadvocate.com/2025/12/23/r...
Kilmar Abrego Garcia to remain free from immigration custody for now arkansasadvocate.com/2025/12/22/r...
Kilmar Abrego Garcia to remain free from immigration custody for now | Arkansas Advocate
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis will retain an order keeping the wrongly deported El Salvador national Kilmar Abrego Garcia out of federal custody for the rest of the year, the judge said at a Monday ...
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December 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Kilmar Abrego Garcia to remain free from immigration custody for now arkansasadvocate.com/2025/12/22/r...
Ballot questions on abortion in Missouri, Idaho likely to spur more legal fights arkansasadvocate.com/2025/12/22/r...
Ballot questions on abortion in Missouri, Idaho likely to spur more legal fights | Arkansas Advocate
While there will be far fewer ballot initiatives affecting abortion access in the 2026 midterm elections than there were in the previous national election, two in Republican-led states could be conseq...
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December 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Ballot questions on abortion in Missouri, Idaho likely to spur more legal fights arkansasadvocate.com/2025/12/22/r...
Trump’s DOJ offers states confidential deal to remove voters flagged by feds arkansasadvocate.com/2025/12/22/r...
Trump’s DOJ offers states confidential deal to remove voters flagged by feds | Arkansas Advocate
The U.S. Department of Justice has sent confidential draft agreements on voter data sharing to more than a dozen states, part of the Trump administration’s effort to obtain unredacted voter rolls, wit...
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December 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Trump’s DOJ offers states confidential deal to remove voters flagged by feds arkansasadvocate.com/2025/12/22/r...
COMMENTARY: Transparency requires more eyes keeping watch. That’s why the Arkansas Advocate is here. arkansasadvocate.com/2025/12/21/t...
Transparency requires more eyes keeping watch. That's why the Arkansas Advocate is here. | Arkansas Advocate
Arkansas is a great state for politics, and benefits from readers who want to know how their tax dollars are being spent.
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December 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
COMMENTARY: Transparency requires more eyes keeping watch. That’s why the Arkansas Advocate is here. arkansasadvocate.com/2025/12/21/t...
Officials decry judge’s ruling against poultry companies in Oklahoma and Arkansas arkansasadvocate.com/2025/12/22/r...
Officials decry judge’s ruling against poultry companies in Oklahoma and Arkansas | Arkansas Advocate
Oklahoma and Arkansas officials are denouncing a federal judge’s decision that found poultry companies responsible for polluting a key watershed in both states and also ordered them to pay millions to...
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December 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Officials decry judge’s ruling against poultry companies in Oklahoma and Arkansas arkansasadvocate.com/2025/12/22/r...
“Overcrowded” is a four-part series that examines the cost of the carceral system on Arkansans, and how state policies and recidivism have packed the state’s prisons. Read all of this reporting from the @arkansasadvocate.com team here:
Overcrowded Series Archives | Arkansas Advocate
Forrest Abrams of Fayetteville was 18 years old when he was found dead in a Little Rock alleyway with four bullets in his back. Darrell Dennis was convicted of the 2013 murder. A man with a lengthy…
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December 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
“Overcrowded” is a four-part series that examines the cost of the carceral system on Arkansans, and how state policies and recidivism have packed the state’s prisons. Read all of this reporting from the @arkansasadvocate.com team here:
Arkansas’ prison population, already on an upward trajectory, is set to climb even higher, according to Department of Corrections projections. Is building another prison the solution to overcrowding? Or is it better programs?
@ainsleyplatt.bsky.social closes out our four-part series
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@ainsleyplatt.bsky.social closes out our four-part series
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December 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Arkansas’ prison population, already on an upward trajectory, is set to climb even higher, according to Department of Corrections projections. Is building another prison the solution to overcrowding? Or is it better programs?
@ainsleyplatt.bsky.social closes out our four-part series
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@ainsleyplatt.bsky.social closes out our four-part series
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In almost half of Arkansas’ corrections supervision cases over 10 years, parole was revoked and people went back to prison — or they got new sentences.
✍️ by @tessmvrbin.bsky.social for a series by @arkansasadvocate.com.
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✍️ by @tessmvrbin.bsky.social for a series by @arkansasadvocate.com.
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Overcrowded: Reducing recidivism in Arkansas is an uphill battle, experts say | Arkansas Advocate
Almost half of closed supervision cases from 2014 to 2023 involved revoking former inmates’ parole and returning them to prison, or giving them new sentences, according to a task force report.
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December 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
In almost half of Arkansas’ corrections supervision cases over 10 years, parole was revoked and people went back to prison — or they got new sentences.
✍️ by @tessmvrbin.bsky.social for a series by @arkansasadvocate.com.
#arpx #arleg
✍️ by @tessmvrbin.bsky.social for a series by @arkansasadvocate.com.
#arpx #arleg
Expenses add up inside and outside Arkansas prisons, and some costs keep people who’ve left prison and may struggle to find employment stuck in the carceral system for years.
@grajeda.bsky.social and @arkansasadvocate.com bring us part 2 of the series Overcrowded.
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@grajeda.bsky.social and @arkansasadvocate.com bring us part 2 of the series Overcrowded.
#arpx #arleg
Overcrowded: Arkansas' prison system costs inmates, taxpayers | Arkansas Advocate
Expenses that accumulate inside and outside prison can keep formerly incarcerated Arkansans who may struggle to find employment stuck in the carceral system for years.
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December 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Expenses add up inside and outside Arkansas prisons, and some costs keep people who’ve left prison and may struggle to find employment stuck in the carceral system for years.
@grajeda.bsky.social and @arkansasadvocate.com bring us part 2 of the series Overcrowded.
#arpx #arleg
@grajeda.bsky.social and @arkansasadvocate.com bring us part 2 of the series Overcrowded.
#arpx #arleg
Arkansas, as a state, incarcerates more of its population than any other democratic country in the world, research shows. And that was before a new law made it harder for people to get parole & probation.
@ainsleyplatt.bsky.social tells the story in the first of a four-part series
@ainsleyplatt.bsky.social tells the story in the first of a four-part series
Overcrowded: Tighter parole, probation rules set stage for Arkansas prison population increases | Arkansas Advocate
Housing convicted offenders is an active source of consternation for legislators, counties and state corrections officials as Arkansas continues to grapple with a growing prison population, fueled by…
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December 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Arkansas, as a state, incarcerates more of its population than any other democratic country in the world, research shows. And that was before a new law made it harder for people to get parole & probation.
@ainsleyplatt.bsky.social tells the story in the first of a four-part series
@ainsleyplatt.bsky.social tells the story in the first of a four-part series
Arkansas regulators have asked that an Oklahoma city’s appeal of a wastewater permit get tossed, saying lawyers who filed the appeal are ineligible because they are not licensed in the state. #arpx
Arkansas regulator asks Tulsa permit challenge be thrown out | Arkansas Advocate
Arkansas regulators have asked that an Oklahoma city’s appeal of a wastewater permit get tossed, saying lawyers who filed the appeal are ineligible because they are not licensed in the state.
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December 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Arkansas regulators have asked that an Oklahoma city’s appeal of a wastewater permit get tossed, saying lawyers who filed the appeal are ineligible because they are not licensed in the state. #arpx
The lawyer who has represented the Arkansas Board of Corrections in lawsuits over who controls the state’s prison system still hasn’t been paid despite a judge’s order, the board learned Tuesday. #arpx #arleg
Arkansas corrections board attorney still not paid; board votes again | Arkansas Advocate
The lawyer who has represented the Arkansas Board of Corrections in lawsuits over who controls the state’s prison system still hasn’t been paid despite a judge’s order, the board learned Tuesday.
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December 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked new Arkansas restrictions of social media that a tech industry trade group argued are unconstitutional, including a measure that would have made it easier for parents to sue social media platforms. #arpx #arleg
Federal court again blocks Arkansas social media restrictions | Arkansas Advocate
A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked new Arkansas restrictions of social media that a tech industry trade group argued are unconstitutional, including a measure that would have made it…
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December 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM