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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GOP Sen. Ben Gilmore spearheaded prison sentencing overhaul -
Warm-blooded animals from states with confirmed New World screwworm detections — including household pets — cannot enter the Natural State without a recent veterinary inspection. -
Lawmakers behind design hope for its completion in 18 months, panel’s chair says -
Phil Stowers opposed several efforts to regulate data center construction and implement a moratorium -
2 data centers planned for Pulaski County, but who bears the cost is disputed -
The elections were held in March, and both cases were dismissed as moot -
Effort to provide matching funds for public television fails twice in House -
Former vice president speaks to packed ballroom at Democrats’ event in Little Rock -
Early childhood funding, UA athletics money measure fail before committee -
Two-thirds of lawmakers must vote in favor of introducing non-fiscal bills for them to be considered
