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Buoyed by robust stock markets, the Arkansas Public Employees Retirement System’s investments gained $2.6 billion in value in the fiscal year that ended June 30 to reach $11.6 billion, the system’s investment consultant reported Wednesday.
Neither officials for the governor nor legislative leaders have an estimate of how much the state will end up paying private attorneys to represent them in the appeal of a judge's decision to temporarily block a state law banning mask mandates.
Attorney General Leslie Rutledge said Friday that she will appeal to the Arkansas Supreme Court a Pulaski County circuit judge's ruling that temporarily bars authorities from enforcing a state law banning mask mandates by most state and governmental entities, including the public schools.
The Legislative Joint Auditing Committee's executive committee is irked over Attorney General Leslie Rutledge securing a court order to allow the judge to revoke the charter of the town of of Allport in Lonoke County if the town fails to comply with municipal accounting laws.