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If you’re the type of person whose job necessitates watching the Arkansas Legislature when they are in session — or if you’re just a weirdo who watches legislative proceedings for fun — you might have noticed that Rep. Brandon Achor (R-Maumelle) has been absent for all but one of the days lawmakers have met during the 2026 fiscal session.

With just over three days left to file, two more Republicans have announced their candidacies in the House District 44 special election to replace Rep. Stan Berry (R-Dover), who died on March 23. This brings the total so far to four Republican candidates for the seat. The filing period runs through noon on April 20, and the special election to fill the seat is scheduled for August 4.

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Skip to content State Sen. Clarke Tucker took the time last week to prep us for the fiscal session, where lawmakers will haggle over how much to spend on SNAP, school vouchers, higher education and other hot-button line items for fiscal year 2027. Tucker also explained the reasoning behind his controversial decision to vote in support of Gov. Sarah Sanders’ controversial pick for the state Board of Corrections.

Timothy Neal Beckham, a criminal defense attorney and former chief public defender in Garland County, was arrested Wednesday and charged with several felony drug counts, including possession with intent to distribute and simultaneous possession of drugs and firearms. Details are currently sparse, as the case is not available in CourtConnect as of this writing. According to the Garland County Jail website, Beckham was booked into the jail shortly after 4 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon.

A short and otherwise uneventful meeting of the Arkansas Legislature’s Joint Budget Committee on Wednesday offered another glimpse of Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ diminishing aura of infallibility, as Sen. Terry Rice (R-Waldron) submitted an amendment to the governor’s proposed budget to remove funding for the position currently held by Joe Profiri. Profiri was among the first people Sanders brought to Arkansas after she was elected in 2022, and has been perhaps her most public failure.

ARKANSAS TIMES FILM SERIES: ‘I AM CUBA’ TUESDAY 4/21. RIVERDALE 10 VIP CINEMA. 7 P.M. $12-$14. Directed by Soviet-Georgian filmmaker Mikhail Kalatozov, “I Am Cuba” (“Soy Cuba” in Spanish) consists of four separate stories from before and during the Cuban Revolution.

My tenure in Central Arkansas is nearly old enough to drink now. I moved here in 2005 for work, first taking an apartment in North Little Rock before buying a house in Little Rock, after having lived much of my life up to that point in eastern Arkansas. The Delta never really agreed with me: those vast expanses of humid flatness that made it feel as if one could never hide, as if one were always visible to the most remote person, should someone happen to be watching.