An Arkansas Senate committee on Thursday endorsed a bill that would more than triple the number of counties required for groups that are collecting signatures to qualify measures for the general election ballot.
Sen. Clarke Tucker, D-Little Rock, was the lone dissenter in a vote to advance Senate bill 71. The bill could criminalize state employees who privilege someone's race or gender in employment or procurement.
I'll bet good folks at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and its Bowen School of Law continue yanking out handfuls of hair after months of contention over a law school professorship named for former governor and President Bill Clinton until faculty questions canceled those plans.