Ainsley Platt / Arkansas Advocate
Ainsley covers the environment, energy and other topics as a reporter for the Arkansas Advocate. Ainsley came to the Advocate after nearly two years at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, where she covered energy and environment, and Arkansas' nascent lithium industry. She has earned accolades for her use of FOIA in her reporting at the ADG, and for her stories about discrimination and student government as a staff reporter, and later as the news desk editor, for The Crimson White, The University of Alabama's student newspaper.
Arkansas Advocate is part of States Newsroom, the nation’s largest state-focused nonprofit news organization.
Email: aplatt@arkansasadvocate.com
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Republican U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton was not in the room as his Democratic and Libertarian challengers debated Monday, but criticism of the Arkansas lawmaker’s record and his absence from the debate took center stage. -
Pulaski County’s top elected official has seven days to decide whether to veto new regulations on data centers approved by the county’s quorum court. -
Data show the percentage of Arkansas schools and districts receiving failing or low grades from the state for their performance has fallen -
The effort was panned by free speech advocates -
Independence County becomes the latest to pass a moratorium on the facilities necessary for AI -
Arkansas was first Southern state to expand Medicaid under Obamacare -
The project only began seeing opposition after developers started clearing trees at the site earlier this year -
The lawsuit is the latest in a string of cases around the country by employees who lost jobs over comments on Kirk's killing -
The new requirements don’t go into effect until January, but Arkansas is already checking recipients for compliance
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GOP Sen. Ben Gilmore spearheaded prison sentencing overhaul
