Ernest Dumas

The January 6 hearings laid the truth bare.

The state constitution's Amendment 19 requires that three-fourths of the legislature approve tax on income. A minority of lawmakers voting no would mean an end to such revenue.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders has given few hints how she’ll govern if elected. Looking at her father’s time as governor might provide a clue. 

The former president might be history, but the hoaxes he promoted won’t die easily.

Issues surrounding the financing of the Grand Gulf Nuclear Generating Station convulsed politics in Arkansas for the last two decades of the 20th century and continued to create legal controversy into 2023 over the financial harm the giant plant did to homeowners and other power users in Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana.

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In celebration of the Arkansas Times' 50th anniversary, Ernie Dumas reflects on the Hastings scandal, the seamy, labyrinthian tale that landed on the cover of the Arkansas Times' July 1978 issue.

Chalk up the messy and expensive flap over an appropriation for Game and Fish to the naïveté and perhaps outright ignorance of one the great buffoons of Arkansas history, Gov. J. Marion Futrell.

Jim Guy Tucker, whose tumultuous 30-year career in politics included terms as a prosecuting attorney, attorney general, congressman and Arkansas’s 43rd governor, died Thursday in Little Rock.