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 — Taxes won’t go up if a highway bond programs gets voter approval on Tuesday. If voters reject it, taxes won’t go down, either.

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LITTLE ROCK — As Mississippi heads for a vote Tuesday on a proposed constitutional amendment to define personhood as beginning at conception, a group in Arkansas says it is preparing to submit a similar amendment to Attorney General Dustin McDaniel.

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LITTLE ROCK — A year ahead of the next general election, the state Democratic Party has launched a media campaign touting Democrats as responsible leaders.

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LITTLE ROCK — Gov. Mike Beebe said today he is not concerned about organized opposition to a ballot proposal to renew a $575 million bond program for interstate highway improvements.

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LITTLE ROCK — Citing “malicious gossip” on the Internet, among other things, a recently announced 2nd District congressional candidate being investigated for fraud says he won’t run for office after all.

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LITTLE ROCK — A man who announced his candidacy for the 2nd District congressional seat today is being investigated by Alaskan authorities in connection with theft of funds from a fundraiser to benefit a disabled soldier.

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LITTLE ROCK — Supporters of Mike Huckabee have created a website apparently in hopes of coaxing the former Arkansas governor to run for the Republican presidential nomination.

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LITTLE ROCK — A federal grand jury has indicted an Arkansas man suspected of trying to bomb a Carroll County polling place in June.

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LITTLE ROCK — Gov. Mike Beebe today recommended former State Rep. Will Bond of Jacksonville to be chairman of the Democratic Party of Arkansas.

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