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Just 20 years ago, trying to avoid smoke in Arkansas was an onerous task.

Going out to restaurants and bars often meant coming home reeking of cigarettes, even if you or your companions weren’t the ones smoking. Many employers had a smoke break room. 

At my first newspaper job in Arkansas, that meant walking through a thick, noxious cloud to buy a can of Di...


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The Department of Justice, Environmental Protection Agency and the Arkansas Division of Environmental Quality asked a federal judge Friday to approve a settlement that would require an Ashdown paper mill to pay $1.5 million for air pollution violations.


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Jeremy Hutchinson, a former Republican state legislator convicted in a sprawling corruption probe and pardoned by President Donald Trump, said Thursday he plans to advocate for establishing a compassionate release program in Arkansas during next year’s legislative session.

Hutchinson, a state senator and the son of former U.S. Sen. Tim Hutchinson, was indicted in feder...


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Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin sued multiple major drugmakers Tuesday, alleging they undermined healthcare providers’ access to a federal drug discount program.

The 22 defendants include 13 drug manufacturers, their related corporate entities and data management firm Second Sight Solutions.


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It’s not hard to find data that points to a farm crisis in our state. 

Arkansas not only lost 166,000 acres of farmland in five years, but also


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