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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Meanwhile, state farmers are missing nearly a third of the assistance they were expecting -
Internet giant Google officially announced the first phase of its West Memphis cloud and artificial intelligence data center project Thursday. -
Sheriff’s deputy spots ICE agents, Joe Profiri at property -
A motion to subpoena former Corrections Secretary Joe Profiri to testify failed on a voice vote -
The nearly two-year legal battle questions who has authority over the state prison system’s top officials -
The Arkansas National Guard has asked the federal government for authority to make immigration arrests, data shows. -
Prison opponents will be allowed to speak, but no investigation is forthcoming, co-chair says -
Cease-and-desist letters sent to mail-order medication abortion advertisers -
ExxonMobil subsidiary applied for identical royalty to that approved by a state commission last month for Standard Lithium -
It’s the end of a 13-year-long saga that started with the state granting a permit to C&H Hog Farms in 2012
