My latest column in @arktimes.bsky.social: Come for the hate, stay for the baloney - Gov. Sanders' vile anti-trans ad offends on many levels.
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Independent candidates Steven McClelland and Trevor McGarragh, Democrat Camille Feyen and Republican Will Moore are seeking to replace Republican Jonathan Dismang, who resigned from the Senate this month to work at Arkansas Electric Cooperatives. #arpx #arleg

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As Arkansas Republicans spend their time banning books & fighting culture wars, the state has gone backwards on providing health coverage for children. Uninsured rate now highest since 2016; kids from low-income working families at greatest risk.
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DEMOCRACY TRIUMPHS: Kudos to Pulaski Co. JPs for listening to constituents & refusing to be cowed by threat of lawsuit from developer of giant data center near Little Rock that will now have to comply with restrictions.
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Leaders in Arkansas' largest county vote to impose sweeping restrictions on data centers, including gigantic project near Little Rock that had been authorized in obscene secrecy.
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CORRECTION: Issue 3 is the scam with the scare ads; Issue 4 is water infrastructure. Three is still bad. Dunno about 4. #arpx #arnews #arleg

CORRECTION: Issue 3 is the scam with the scare ads; Issue 4 is water infrastructure. Three is still bad. Dunno about 4. #arpx #arnews #arleg

A federal appeals panel is considering whether to allow six Arkansas school districts to enforce a 2025 state law requiring Ten Commandments displays in all public school classrooms. #arpx #arleg

Worth remembering that Arkansas legislators were bamboozled into passing this nonsense by a father-son team of Christian nationalists from Texas. Although to be fair, bamboozling them isn't very difficult ...
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NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT: Last year Arkansas Sen. Jonathan Dismang sponsored a bill to make it easier for utilities to pass data center infrastructure costs on to ratepayers. As the public started to get wise, he quit - for job at an electric co-op.
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A special election to fill the Senate District 18 vacancy resulting from former Sen. Jonathan Dismang’s resignation this week will be Jan. 5, 2027, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced Friday.

The filing period begins at noon Monday. #arpx #arleg

Yesterday, I asked if Gov. Sanders' opponents would condemn her repellent re-election ad demeaning transgender Arkansans. This is Colt Shelby's response.
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Entergy Arkansas gives up the ghost on its ill-advised attempt to gag local media from reporting details of its dodgy data center deal with Google.
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FLEECED? Entergy Arkansas ratepayers on the hook for $1.6B in upfront construction costs for new solar plant to supply ginormous Google data center, Dem-Gaz reports; payments Google agreed to make over 20 years won't go for construction.
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After serving nearly two decades in the Arkansas Legislature, Republican Sen. Jonathan Dismang resigned from the Senate Tuesday to take a job at Arkansas Electric Cooperatives.

Dismang's legislative work included food insecurity, tax cuts and energy. #arpx #arleg

One of the most obscene things about data centers is the corporate welfare lavished on them by gullible politicians taken in by artificial competition for new projects ginned up by Big Tech. 2 projects in Little Rock include giveaways of 65% of the future tax revenue.
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So, it turns out Gov. Sanders and other top Arkansas Republicans didn't turn up in Dallas to kiss Dear Leader's ... ring. Last-minute family conflicts & such, don'tcha know ...
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Arkansas PBS sheds 2,300 donors. Carlton Wing did this, for no reason. And as long as he's at the helm, those donors aren't coming back.
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Will Tom Cotton make it to Texas for Trump-a-palooza? Just find Arkansas, then turn left ...
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