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Who Diverted $1 Million In Highway Money?

September 15, 2019 // 0 Comments

Last year the Arkansas Highway Commission gave away $1 Million in highway money to the University of Arkansas to help fund an engineering building. The grant of your money [...]

Sad or Worried?

August 24, 2019 // 0 Comments

Politicians expressed sadness that their former colleague Senator Jeremy Hutchinson admitted to bribery schemes and diversion of campaign funds. But perhaps some were more [...]

Isolated corruption?

August 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

When former state Senator Jeremy Hutchinson pled guilty to felony corruption charges the general reaction of politicians was sadness. Sadness for their friend. So where is [...]

Embarrassingly Feeble Response To Corruption

April 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

What did the 2019 Arkansas legislature do to fight corruption? Close to zero. It was as if they think systemic corruption will go away on its own now that the “bad” [...]

Friends with benefits…. Financial benefits

September 25, 2018 // 0 Comments

Former Speaker of the House, Jeremy Gillam, received loans from several state Representatives.  The loans from 2016 went unreported until recently. Because of the do-over [...]

Can the legislature police itself?

September 17, 2018 // 0 Comments

In the wake of multiple scandals involving state legislators, Senator Jim Hendren proposed and passed revisions to the Arkansas Senate’s Code of Ethics. The revisions [...]
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