Private financing of government election offices under the guise of COVID-19 relief skewed voter turnout in the 2020 election and may have tipped the presidential election to Joe Biden…
States Banning or Restricting “Zuck Bucks”…
June 22, 2021: Updated to include new states’ legislation and the current status of all known bills related to banning private funding of elections. July 12: Updates to Louisiana, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. August 16, 2021: Added Ohio and Arkansas. January 28, 2022: Added new vetoes, updated news articles across the board, removed Iowa, which did not restrict “Zuck bucks.” February 23: Updated Wisconsin. March 3: Added Minnesota. March 10: Re-added Iowa’s new bill prohibiting private funding; updated Indiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Virginia successful bans…
States Are Banning COVID-19 Vaccine Requirements…
Arkansas and Montana are the latest states to advance bills or enact laws that ban requirements based on vaccine status…
Deaths of Elderly Who Recovered from COVID-19, but Died After Vaccine, Raise Questions…
Two small clusters of deaths after COVID-19 vaccination have been reported among nursing homes in Kentucky and Arkansas…
Federal Tax Judge Allows Whistleblower Case Against Clinton Foundation to Proceed…
U.S. Tax Court Judge David Gustafson denies IRS motion for summary judgment, says agency “abused its discretion” in trying to shut down inquiry….
DOJ Crackdown on China Influence Inside Research Universities Expands to Arkansas…
A Justice Department crackdown on secret Chinese influence inside American universities has expanded to Arkansas, where a longtime professor has been charged with concealing payments from Beijing while receiving federal funding from NASA. A criminal indictment unsealed Monday evening revealed that Simon Saw-Teong Ang, 63, of Fayetteville, Ark., a professor since 1988 at the University […]
School Resource Officer Takes Second-Grader Without Dad to Father-Daughter Dance…
An Arkansas school resource officer has gone viral for taking a second-grader whose dad passed away to her school’s father-daughter dance. Avey Cox says she had always dreamed of going to the father-daughter dance, but when her dad passed away, she did not think she would ever be able to go. That is when Van […]
Two Former Republican Lawmakers Found Shot Dead at Home in Same Week…
Two Republican state Senators were found shot dead in their homes this week. First, former Arkansas state Senator Linda Collins-Smith, 57, was found shot dead in her home several days after neighbors reported hearing gunshots. According to CBS News, her death is being reported as a homicide – “CBS Little Rock affiliate KTHV reported the […]
Cities Brace After Levee Along Arkansas River Fails, Flood Water Approaches…
Emergency crews in Yell County have been dropping large sandbags and building barriers to protect against floodwater gushing out of a major hole that broke through a levee Friday morning along the Arkansas River. Fast river currents tore a 40-foot hole in a levee near Holla Bend and led to an evacuation of the area […]
Arkansas Cuts Off Medicaid Funds to Planned Parenthood Following Court Ruling…
Arkansas has once again cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood following a recent court ruling. The state’s Department of Human Services said it terminated Planned Parenthood’s status as a Medicaid provider last week when the court’s ruling formally took effect, according to The Associated Press. A federal appeals court in August vacated an earlier […]