In her eighth executive order issued in her first two days as governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Wednesday directed state Department of Education Secretary Jacob Oliva to lay the groundwork for her proposed education overhaul.
While we might not think about cybercrime impacting us here in Arkansas, the threat is real and growing. According to the FBI s 2021 Internet Crime Report, Americans reported almost 850,000 incidents of cyber-related crime in the U.S. in 2021, including more than 51,000 data breaches. Together, those attacks cost the U.S. over $6.9 billion last year.
Lawmakers also voted to punish Sen. Alan Clark, R-Lonsdale, for filing what was determined to be a frivolous and retaliatory ethics charge against a colleague.
Republicans appeared to retain their supermajority in the Arkansas Senate with unofficial results showing the party leading in at least 16 contested races on Tuesday.