Lindsey Millar

Gov. Sarah Sanders held a press conference on Thursday to announce the filing of a bill that would require Arkansans to provide identification to use social media sites. Framed as a necessary step to protect minors from the harmful effects of social media, the bill would require the likes of Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube to contract with a third-party system to verify that users are 18 or have consent from parents or guardians to use the sites.

The Arkansas legislature’s attack on trans kids continues. The Senate on Monday approved House Bill 1156, sponsored by the hateful duo of Rep. Mary Bentley (R-Perryville) and Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Jonesboro), which prevents trans kids from using multiple occupancy bathrooms that match their gender identity and instead forces them to use single-person bathrooms or bathrooms that correspond with the gender they were assigned at birth.

A bill that would require Arkansans to verify their age to view pornography cleared the House on Tuesday.

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A year after he released his acclaimed debut, “Don’t Know Tough,” Cranor has a new novel out today that’s a must-read. It’s called “Ozark Dogs,” and like his first book, it’s a propulsive, gritty thriller that’s all Arkansas. If you like crime novels, or fiction that thoroughly inhabits places you know, Cranor is your man.

Arkansas news, politics, opinion, restaurants, music, movies and art

Arkansas news, politics, opinion, restaurants, music, movies and art

The report focuses on Mimi Perkins, who worked the graveyard shift at Tyson plant in Hope in 2016. After a pipe weld in the factory ruptured, filling the room where she was working with ammonia gas, she got trapped in the factory for about 40 minutes. She heard a paramedic describe her as “DOA,” and has undergone several throat surgeries and cornea transplants since then.

Arkansas provides a point of entry into the upheaval happening in Medicaid rolls across the country in The New York Times today.

The opening of Blue Mountain means mountain bikers and hikers will have another nearly eight miles of trails in the Little Rock area to explore, but perhaps even more exciting is that it represents the final puzzle piece to connect a series of natural areas that together make up 21,000 acres.