By Andrew DeMillo | Editor-in-Chief
Good morning, Advocate readers! The fight to put a direct democracy proposal on Arkansas’ ballot has come to an end. The state Supreme Court upheld election officials’ decision to reject the petitions submitted for the proposed constitutional amendment. You can find more Arkansas government and politics news on the Advocate website here.
Protestors sign petitions at the No Kings March in Little Rock, Arkansas on Saturday, March 28, 2026 (Photo by Katie Adkins/Arkansas Advocate)
GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
By Antoinette Grajeda
The Arkansas Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit Wednesday that sought to reverse the secretary of state’s decision to disqualify a direct democracy ballot measure from the ballot.
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences campus on Markham Street in Little Rock. (Photo by John Sykes/Arkansas Advocate)
GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
By Tess Vrbin
Dozens of healthcare providers and organizations urged the federal government Wednesday to grant Arkansas officials’ request for two years to come up with a new Medicaid expansion model.
Firefighters work under an orange sky at the Rowe Creek Complex Fire in Oregon in late July. As fires spread rapidly across the Pacific Northwest this summer, wildfire veterans say extreme conditions and aggressive fire suppression could put crews in danger. (Photo by Brett Deedon/Oregon State Fire Marshal)
GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
By Ainsley Platt
The Arkansas Department of Agriculture launched an online dashboard detailing active wildfires across the state this week, as a months-long drought has left a third of the state at a high risk for wildfires and nearly the entire state under burn bans.
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