Legislature

At the kick off of the legislative session, Sarah Sanders’ State of the State address doubled as a fan letter to Trump and a culture war greatest hits album. Arkansas, she proudly declared, is the “vanguard of a national conservative revolution.” A bold proclamation, and in no way true, not...

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  • January 21, 2025

Passing more tax cuts for the rich in Arkansas is like taking candy from a baby. Except the baby is just regular people trying to make ends meet. Gov. Sanders once again dolled out tax cuts for the third time in 15 months. The most recent batch of cuts reduces...

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  • June 25, 2024

It will only cost $4 million to let lawmakers hide from constituents Arkansas kids can’t have health care, but our lawmakers can have a super secret tunnel on Capitol grounds. No, really. That’s what’s happening. We told you about their dumb tunnel idea back in July. Last week, the Arkansas...

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  • August 31, 2023

It’s all making sense! According to Sarah Sanders’ mouthpiece Alexa Henning, the Governor’s Mansion is undergoing some renovations. The story we’re getting is that Sanders’ young kids need a safer mansion to play in. What’s a child-friendly palazzo reno cost these days? $592,000 You read that right. They’re updating the...

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  • April 5, 2023

Why isn’t the Governor holding a tear-filled press conference for the monument to unborn children? Guess she knows it’s cringe. Kinda strange the impending “monument to the unborn” hasn’t had much fanfare from Sarah. Several of Governor Sanders’ key pieces of legislation were signed into law with all the pomp...

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  • March 22, 2023