School districts are sounding the alarm on the LEARNS Act’s unfunded mandate to increase teacher salaries. Ali Noland, attorney and Little Rock School Board member, tweeted about LRSD’s projected impact, and gained some attention from Alexa Henning, one of Sarah Sanders’ most well-behaved lapdogs who can’t find Arkansas on a...
Bless Judd Deere’s heart. The guy is deputy chief of staff to Sarah Huckabee Sanders and a former Trump staffer but has no idea what the hell is going on. Most folks can tell the difference between rhetoric and reality, but not Judd. Is this why Trump and SHS hired...
In a stunning display of authoritarianism, the Sanders’ Administration threatens to block appropriations funding to the districts of lawmakers who vote against the LEARNS Act. This comes on the heels of harassment and intimidation of school superintendents at the hands of the Administration and Republican legislators. Yikes. Looks like the AR GOP...
No, really. Even Jeb Bush is hoping Sarah Sanders lets him wear pink on Wednesdays.
Sen. Jonathan Dismang, Chair of the Joint Budget Committee, worked hard to ensure fair dispersal of federal broadband funds only to be sent to timeout by his new mom, er, Governor. Via her latest executive order, Gov. Sanders halts money for rural broadband. “Hit the pause button, make sure we’re...
All eyes are on the governor and all mouths are on the floor as Sanders sends teachers to the back of the bus. Despite widespread public support to raise teacher pay, Arkansas’s elected leaders ignore this real problem and instead raise pay for themselves and senior staff. Teachers across the...
Gov. Sanders announced the appointment of the former chair of the Republican Party of Arkansas, Doyle Webb, to head the state’s Public Service Commission. The Commission is a regulatory body charged with ensuring big energy companies don’t rip off consumers. A quick google search will tell you Webb has zero...
How does a new governor balance white supremacist rhetoric with faux inclusion? Host a MLK Day prayer breakfast at the governor’s mansion, of course! Governor Sanders, on the heels of banning Critical Race Theory and “indoctrination” in our public schools, hosted the event last week with the state’s MLK commission....
“Gaetz named Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a former White House press secretary, as his pick for Trump’s 2024 running mate. The Florida congressman praised Sanders for her ‘directness’ and her move to ban TikTok on state government devices.” – Via Yahoo News.