LITTLE ROCK — Two state Court of Appeals judges face each other in Tuesday’s non-partisan judicial election for a seat on the Arkansas Supreme Court.

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LITTLE ROCK — The Libertarian Party of Arkansas’ first-ever slate of candidates for state offices includes at least one name familiar to longtime Arkansas political observers.

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FORT SMITH — Fort Smith voters on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly in favor of reconfiguring an existing sales tax and moving forward with six ballot proposals that will make use of the revenues.

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LITTLE ROCK — The Legislature formally ended its 2012 fiscal session today, and the House later elected Rep. Darrin Williams, D-Little Rock, as speaker-designate for the 89th General Assembly, which will convene in January.

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LITTLE ROCK — The office of Secretary of State Mark Martin today directed Crittenden County election officials to place Fred Smith’s name on the ballot as a state House candidate despite his conviction last year for felony the

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LITTLE ROCK — State House members will vote Friday on who they want the next speaker of the House to be, though the results may not matter if the winner’s party is not in control of that body come January.

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LITTLE ROCK — The state Democratic Party today asked Secretary of State Mark Martin to decline to place on the ballot the name of a would-be House candidate who has a felony conviction, but an official with the secretary of state’s office said that may not be legal.

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LITTLE ROCK — Lawyer and former state legislator Herb Rule of Little Rock and businessman and former U.S. Senate candidate D.C. Morrison of Little Rock filed today to run as Democrats for Arkansas’ 2nd and 4th district congressional seats, respectively.

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LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas’ 2012 election season formally began today amid traditional pageantry and new expectations of a political sea change in perhaps the last Democratic bastion in the South.

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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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