LITTLE ROCK — The co-chairmen of the legislative Joint Budget Committee said today that legislators have not given up on the idea of finding a way to provide a cost-of-living adjustment for state employees in the next fiscal year.

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LITTLE ROCK — The state Supreme Court struck down another provision of Arkansas’ tort reform law today.

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LITTLE ROCK — Any reduction in state funding for public schools would be a step back from Arkansas’ commitment to students, state Education Commissioner Tom Kimbrell told the legislative Joint Budget Committee today.

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LITTLE ROCK — Two tax hike proposals that would benefit state highways are compatible, not competing measures, the House speaker told city leaders from across the state today.

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LITTLE ROCK — The head of the state pollution control agency said today she will request that plans to test for mineral pollutants along Crooked Creek in northern Arkansas be temporarily withdrawn.

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LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas House Speaker Robert S. Moore Jr. said today he has appointed Dr. James B. Hazlewood to the state Tobacco Settlement Commission.

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LITTLE ROCK — The areas of licensure in which teachers are most needed in Arkansas are not the areas in which the most licenses are being issued, according to a report that suggests it may be difficult for some teachers to find work in the state because of their choice of subject.

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LITTLE ROCK — Attorney General Dustin McDaniel today filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit that resulted in a ruling that portions of the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act are unconstitutional.

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LITTLE ROCK — The head of the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce says the business organization is disappointed that the state declined to apply for a multimillion-dollar federal grant to fund planning for a state health insurance exchange.

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LITTLE ROCK — Republican opposition today appeared to dim prospects that the state will apply for new federal funding to continue planning for a state health exchange as part of the federal health care overhaul.

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