Save Standard TimeArkansas can ditch Daylight Saving Time this year! Click here 👉 https://www.votervoice.net/ditchDST/Campaigns/120037/Respond 👈 right now to tell #ARLeg YES on HB 1069!
Arkansas has a new bill to #DitchDST! Tell your #ARLeg state senator and state representative to sponsor HB1069 for permanent Standard Time.
BillTrack50#Fentanyl legislation trending. Failed #ARLeg aims to exclude fentanyl test strips from the definition of "drug #paraphernalia" under the uniform #ControlledSubstancesAct.
https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1510813
https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1510813
#Pronoun legislation trending. Passed #arleg prohibit requiring employees of public schools and state-supported institutions of Higher Education to use a person's preferred pronoun, name, or title without parental consent
#TransYouth #LGBTYouth
https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1579941
#TransYouth #LGBTYouth
https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1579941
AxiosRT @WorthSparkman: Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said an internal investigation isn't necessary following an allegation that documents were altered or omitted by members of her staff.
#arpx #arleg #axiosnorthwestarkansas #ARnews #NWArk
James BenjaminThis strikes me as a fair assessment of what life under single-party rule in Arkansas is like. It isn't pretty.
https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/in-arkansas-a-vision-of-single-party
smegOur legislature is completely stupid. #arleg #arpx #arkansas
Arkansas Legislature Passes Age Verification Bill That Conveniently Carves Out Basically Everyone EXCEPT Meta & Twitter | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/11/arkansas-legislature-passes-age-verification-bill-that-conveniently-carves-out-basically-everyone-except-meta-twitter/
Arkansas Legislature Passes Age Verification Bill That Conveniently Carves Out Basically Everyone EXCEPT Meta & Twitter
This is so bizarre. Last month, we highlighted the ridiculousness of Arkansas’ age verification for social media bill. These bills are showing up everywhere, from California to Utah and lots of oth…
RT @WorthSparkman: Ahead of the International #TransgenderDayOfVisivility, we took a look at bills proposed in Arkansas. #ARNews #NWANews #axiosnorthwestarkansas #arkleg #arleg #arpx #TDOV2023
Arkansas' anti-trans bills mirror national push https://t.co/Oprd0DRkqR
Apparently Arkansas keeps getting negative national and even international attention - this time over recent changes that relax child labor laws. Yet another reason I tell people to relocate elsewhere if at all possible. We have plenty of good folks who are trying to fight the good fight, but the fight is rigged from the outset.
It's easier to put kids to work in Arkansas now, and people are talking about it
Some Catholic leaders, an opinion writer from The Washington Post and The Onion weighed in on the country's changing child labor laws. Arkansas's Youth Hiring Act of 2023, which makes it easier for kids to enter the workforce, made an appearance.
Turns out that Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and an infamous former Governor from our state (Orval Faubus) used a lot of the same rhetoric about "school choice" - something to remember as school districts serving the least privileged get hurt the most. Vouchers will be the death knell for a number of districts here.
