Sonny Albarado / Arkansas Advocate
In his 50-year career, Sonny Albarado has been an investigations editor, a business editor, a city editor, an environmental reporter and a government reporter at newspapers in Arkansas, Tennessee and Louisiana. He retired from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in 2020 after serving as projects editor for 12 ½ years.
Email: salbarado@arkansasadvocate.com
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Two state laws that transferred authority to governor unconstitutional, ruling says -
A divided Arkansas Supreme Court said Thursday that two state laws related to ballot petitions violate the constitution, in a case involving a paper-ballot measure from Cleburne County. -
‘Frivolous,” officials say of allegations of campaign finance impropriety -
A program aimed at increasing the number of biomedical researchers from underrepresented groups fell victim to the Trump administration’s attacks on diversity this spring. -
Sen. Gary Stubblefield, a Branch Republican who served a dozen years in the Arkansas Senate, died Tuesday at the age of 74. -
A long-planned new Interstate 55 bridge connecting Arkansas and Tennessee will be known as Kings’ Crossing, officials from the two states announced this week. -
A smaller prison in western or NW Arkansas and completion of a planned addition in Calico Rock would be better, Lee Watson says -
Attorney General Tim Griffin on Wednesday asked a state court to prevent the Arkansas Board of Corrections from spending any public funds on a lawyer he says the board hired illegally. -
The legal dispute between the Arkansas Board of Corrections and Attorney General Tim Griffin deepened this week, even as the board acted to try to resolve it. -
Arkansas’ prison oversight board on Tuesday unanimously approved a contract with two architectural engineering firms to design a planned state prison.
