Red Wing Daily: April 1, 2024
"the more you know ..."
State
Senator Joshua Bryant (R, Rogers) explains his reasoning in sponsoring the scorned Data Center Act of 2023 and indicates that possible changes to the law could follow in 2025 after lawmakers approved an interim study on the issue last week.
For the first time since 1986, Arkansas legislators have referred only one Constitutional amendment to the voters for our November ballot. If voters approve, lottery proceeds will be expanded to be used for grants and scholarships for vocational-technical and technical institutes students.
Wanna keep a close eye on those signature-gathering efforts for all those citizen-led referendum issues? Check out the University of Arkansas-Division of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service Public Policy Center website (we know, strange, huh?) for accurate and up-to-date information.Tyson “has no current plans to hire 52,000 workers in the U.S.” says Arkansas Business/AP:
In addition, all of its workers are required to have legal authorization for employment in the country.
The claims Tyson is hiring tens of thousands of illegal aliens are “categorically false,” says the piece — “part of the AP’s effort to address widely shared false and misleading information that is circulating online.”
The Board of Corrections continues to draw scrutiny. This time it’s the high-and-mighty way they play “fast and loose with open meetings law,” says Sonny Alvarado, editor of left-leaning Arkansas Advocate. We 100% agree. It’s especially noticable this year because of the heightened focus on the Arkansas Freedom of Information and proposed constitutional amendment/act arkansasballot push.
National
The US-59 bridge on the Arkansas River in Sallisaw, Oklahoma was closed briefly when a barge hit pylons on March 30 about 1:30 pm. Engineers said the damage caused a 2.5-hour shutdown to the bridge that crosses the Arkansas River where it enters the Robert S. Kerr Reservoir (right across the Oklahoma/Arkansas border). (VIDEO: “language alert”)
A favorable election integrity ruling in Pennsylvania: Mail-in ballots that arrive on time but in envelopes without required handwritten dates — or with incorrect dates — should not be counted, a federal appeals court ruled last week in a 2-1 decision striking a lower court ruling that had allowed them. Knowing Pennsylvania, the state will attempt a higher appeal (but there’s no decision on that right now).
Republican Congressman Tim Burchett of Tennessee ripped our lawmakers’ inaction on securing our borders (VIDEO) with his spot-on rebuke on the passage of that recent monstrosity of a “minibus” federal spending bill, warning
If we lose our country, it’s not worth it. It is absolutely not worth it. … If we do not do the right thing in this occasion, we will lose our country. You are seeing the beginning of the end for the United States of America.
Here’s how “GOP attorneys general are “charging into battle over state election rules,” which only serves to again show how Trump-obsessed the Left still remains: “a loose coalition of Republican-led states” has urged states to
throw out certain mail ballots, weaken long-standing protections against racial discrimination in voting, green-light gerrymandered district maps, and empower partisan state legislatures .. to set election rules.
Never mind that “partisan state legislatures” are, by law, the final authority on state election rules and that we know how rife with fraud the mail-in ballot scheme really is…
WE READ THE BILLS!
