Digested week: When should we talk to children about the very worst things? This week’s events make me wonder how long I can keep stalling. Plus, Keir Starmer’s Jason Bourne moment The Guardian - UK · Oct 13, 2023
Arkansas lawmakers OK plan to audit purchase of $19,000 lectern for Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders Arkansas lawmakers are delving into the unusual controversy over the purchase a $19,000 lectern for Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders The Independent UK · Oct 12, 2023
New emails look bad for Sarah Sanders Scrutiny intensifies over Sarah Sanders office's purchase of a $19,000 podium Salon · Oct 11, 2023
Sarah Huckabee Sanders faces investigation for $19,000 lectern and ‘hidden’ public records Tampering with public records is a felony The Independent UK · Oct 2, 2023
Whistleblower accusation against Sanders Whistleblower's attorney claims Sanders' office altered and withheld public records Salon · Oct 2, 2023
Violent threats are driving today’s politics Mike Huckabee has warned of “bullets” flying if Donald Trump loses in 2024. Pretty much all mass shooters turn out to be infected with right-wing dogma. No need to kid ourselves about where this is coming from. Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 22, 2023
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs law restricting release of her travel, security records Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed a new law that will restrict the release of her travel and security records The Independent UK · Sep 14, 2023
Arkansas lawmakers advance plan to shield Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders' travel, security records Arkansas lawmakers have voted to restrict the public's access to records about Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders' travel and security The Independent UK · Sep 13, 2023
Arkansas governor seeks exemption on travel and security records, backs off other changes Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Republicans in the Legislature have backed off widespread limits to the state's open records law, but they are still seeking limits on what can be released about the GOP governor's travel and security The Independent UK · Sep 13, 2023
Judge blocks Arkansas law requiring parental OK for minors to create social media accounts A federal judge has blocked Arkansas from enforcing a new law that would have required parental consent for minors to create new social media accounts The Independent UK · Aug 31, 2023
Sarah Huckabee Sanders wants to send Arkansas schools back to 1956 Everybody who disagrees with her educational reforms, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders claims, is a member of “the radical woke left mob” that she’s protecting schoolchildren from. Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 24, 2023
Arkansas veto referendum on LEARNS Act falls short of required signatures Citizens for Arkansas Public Education and Students (CAPES) submitted signatures on July 31 to place a veto referendum on the Nov. 2024 ballot to repeal the LEARNS Act, an education bill signed by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R). Ballotpedia · Aug 9, 2023
‘Criminal liability for librarians’: the fight against US rightwing book bans Skye Perryman of Democracy Forward, which helped block a controversial Arkansas law, says attacks will continue The Guardian - US · Aug 5, 2023
Group Submits Signatures For Veto Referendum To Overturn Arkansas LEARNS Act Citizens for Arkansas Public Education and Students (CAPES) submitted signatures repeal the LEARNS Act Zenger · Aug 2, 2023
Ballotpedia · Aug 2, 2023 Group submits signatures for veto referendum to overturn Arkansas LEARNS Act Citizens for Arkansas Public Education and Students (CAPES) submitted signatures to place a veto referendum on the Nov. 2024 ballot to repeal the LEARNS Act, an education bill signed by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R).
The Independent UK · Aug 1, 2023 Photo of Sarah Huckabee Sanders beaming next to frowning kids goes viral as child labour laws rolled back Arkansas’ Youth Hiring Act of 2023 went into effect on 1 August
Salon · Jul 31, 2023 Judge blocks Ark law targeting libraries "They will not be threatened with jail for making books available to our patrons," advocate says after ruling
Salon · Jul 19, 2023 Trump mad Sanders won't endorse him Tensions mount after Sanders team told Trump's operatives that she would endorse him
Al Jazeera · Jul 8, 2023 US cracks down on child labour violations amid loosening laws A child died in a sawmill accident this month, as some Republican-led states move to relax child labour restrictions.
Salon · Jun 28, 2023 Ex-aide: Trump fantasized about Ivanka Trump’s former chief of staff had to “remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter,” writes Miles Taylor
The Conversation · Jun 26, 2023 States are weakening their child labor restrictions nearly 8 decades after the US government took kids out of the workforce A movement to weaken American child labor protections at the state level began in 2022. By June 2023, Arkansas, Iowa, New Jersey and New Hampshire had enacted this kind of legislation, and lawmakers in at least another eight states had introduced similar measures.
Al Jazeera · Jun 21, 2023 US judge nixes Arkansas’s ban on transgender healthcare for youth The Arkansas ban was the first of its kind in the US, paving the way for at least 19 other states to restrict such care.
Ballotpedia · Jun 20, 2023 Language for veto referendum challenging the LEARNS Act is the longest ballot title in Arkansas history Citizens for Arkansas Public Education and Students (CAPES) began filing ballot language for a proposed veto referendum with the Arkansas attorney general in May after the Arkansas State Legislature adjourned its 2023 legislative session. After two previous attempts were rejected, Attorney General Tim Griffin certified the ballot language submitted by…
The Independent UK · Jun 14, 2023 Sarah Huckabee Sanders travels to Europe for 1st overseas trade mission as Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders is heading to Europe for her first trade mission as Arkansas governor
The Independent UK · Jun 2, 2023 Arkansas librarians are suing to block state law that threatens them with jailtime Booksellers and library workers face unconsitutional restrictions and ‘extreme punishments’, plaintiffs argue