Here's the latest local and regional news from the KUAR Newsroom for Monday, June 5, 2023.
On today's agenda:
-Arkansas Supreme Court justices uphold a lower court decision temporarily blocking a wide-sweeping education law
-17 plaintiffs join a lawsuit challenging an Arkansas law regulating libraries’ placement of “controversial” materials
-The state’s Secretary of Parks, Heritage and Tourism resigns
-More than 70,000 Arkansans have lost Medicaid coverage as the state pauses automatic re-enrollment regardless of eligibility
-Arkansas stands poised to end the fiscal year with a surplus over $1 billion
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