With Arkansas's 2010 Census data in, the process of redrawing Arkansas's state and federal congressional districts is soon to begin. Content partner Roby Brock takes a look at some of the underlying issues and notes that, either due to or despite th...
Last Wednesday, the House Committee on State Agencies voted down HB 1292, which would have denied state benefits or services to any undocumented residents except in life-saving situations. The bills flaws --- denying prenatal care to pregnant women...
The Arkansas legislature coined a new controversy on Wednesday as a bill was filed to make a change to the state quarter.
HB 00.25 by Rep. Jon Hubbard -- the "Quarter For Your Thoughts" bill -- would alter the language on the back of the stat...
When I wrote the first post about Rep. Justin Harris and his daycare, Growing God's Kingdom ("GGK"), I purposefully kept the post focused entirely on the money received and not the propriety of the money itself. As the story has grown and unfolded, ...
Accelerated in large part by the truly execrable Citizens United decision, America is quickly sliding into an oligarchy. Sadly, this is no longer hyperbole: we've always known many politicians were nothing more than puppets for the rich, they simply...
Lost in the drama of the Democrat co-sponsors trying to have their names removed from unconstitutional HB 1002 last week was an accounting of which Democrats actually voted for the bill.
There were nine such votes, to wit:
John Catlett*
Lind...
In what should come as no surprise to anyone who has read BHR for more than about two days, my legal background tends to be the prism through which I view 99% of policy questions. The 1% of the time it does not, however, is when my business and econ...
You know that old saw about how "it's better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt"?
Representative Jon Hubbard (R-Jonesboro) doesn't buy into that idea one bit.
Today, during the discussions on the House flo...
Rep. Ed Garner's hypothesis, plainly stated, is this: we will encourage more companies to come here and create more jobs, making everyone's life better in the long run, if we just remove the capital gains tax on new investments. Implicit in that...
As long as we're knee-deep in economic theory today, I thought I'd touch on something else that's been bouncing around the Blue Hog Hollowed-Out Volcano Lair: the deficit. After all, you can't turn on national news these days without hearing someone...