Benjamin Hardy

The Arkansas Times has gotten a few inquiries recently about an article published last week by South Arkansas Reckoning, a scrappy Substack out of Rison created by independent journalists Suzi Parker and Richard Owens. In a Dec. 4 post (now paywalled), which was also sent as an email to their Substack subscribers, Parker and Owens essentially claim the

On Tuesday Cotton blocked the PRESS Act, a bipartisan bill intended to shield journalists from being forced to reveal confidential sources when pressured by the federal government.

Arkansas is one of nine states with a trigger law that would end Medicaid expansion if the federal match rate for the program drops.

U.S. Rep. French Hill of Little Rock will be the next chair of the House Financial Services Committee, beating out several rivals within the GOP for the influential post.

Arkansas Republicans taking inspiration from California Democrats on food safety? These are weird times.

On this week's podcast, Lara and Benji talk about the future of Medicaid expansion and what FOIA'd emails show about the Franklin County prison site.

220,000 Arkansans stand to lose insurance coverage if GOP Congress cuts funds Arkansas has been an unlikely leader in Medicaid policy over the past decade.

Gov. Sarah Sanders at an event in 2024 (file photo) Credit: Brian Chilson

Attorneys for Maer Malinowski say the guns and ammo seized from the Malinowski home on March 19 should be returned to her.

Gov. Sarah Sanders announced Friday that she has appointed Cole Jester, her deputy chief legal counsel, to be Arkansas’s next secretary of state. The position is typically elected statewide, but current Secretary of State John Thurston is leaving the role after winning election as state treasurer in November.