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Ainsley Platt

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Sep 23, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Ainsley Platt, Arkansas Advocate

    Arkansas Advocate: Arkansas corrections department abandons restrictions on physical books, newspapers (opens the original)

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     Department of Corrections will shift its focus away from creating a policy restricting access to physical books in an effort to prevent illegal drugs from entering prisons, officials told the state corrections board Monday, September 21, 2026. Officials instead plans to tighten the language of a 2022 policy and give the department more authority to ban “misbehaving” third-parties selling publications laced with drugs to incarcerated people, said Tawnie Hughes, the department’s chief lega

  2. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Ainsley Platt, Arkansas Advocate

    Arkansas Advocate: Arkansas reports fewer failing schools and school districts in 2025-2026 (opens the original)

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    The percentage of Arkansas schools and districts receiving failing or low grades from the state for their performance has decreased, according to data released by the state Department of Education on Thursday, September 17, 2026. Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and education officials touted the numbers as validation for her signature 2023 education law, the LEARNS Act. Education Secretary Jacob Oliva told reporters Thursday that “the improvements that we’ve made by building out this bl

  3. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Ainsley Platt, Arkansas Advocate

    Arkansas Advocate: Arkansas lawmakers question utility on data center projects, impact on ratepayers (opens the original)

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    Lawmakers questioned Entergy officials Tuesday on the Arkansas data center projects it is powering, with several expressing concerns with the utility’s decision to recoup from ratepayers the costs of a solar and battery storage facility for a West Memphis project. Republican Sen. Mark Johnson, the co-chair of the Joint Energy Committee, also criticized the utility’s decision to sue the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette over its reporting on documents it obtained regarding Entergy’s power agreement

  4. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Ainsley Platt, Arkansas Advocate

    Highland Park incidents (opens the original)

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    Past accidents at the Highland Industrial Park. The federal workplace safety regulator has fined $156,700 to a General Dynamics facility in Hampton following an explosion there last year tha… Calm prevails at Southern Arkansas University Tech and its associated Arkansas Fire Training Academy in East Camden on Tuesday, July 9, 2024 f… One death has been confirmed as a result of the 8:15 a.m. Wednesday, July 3, 2024 explosion at the General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Syst… One person was repor

  5. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Ainsley Platt, Arkansas Advocate

    Arkansas Advocate: Arkansas health department to lay off dozens of workers, eliminate unfilled positions (opens the original)

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    The Arkansas Department of Health will lay off more than three dozen people and eliminate unfilled positions in November, a spokesperson confirmed on Monday, September 14, 2026. In total, 71 positions within the 2,100-person department will be eliminated. Thirty-eight of those positions are currently filled, while the rest are unfilled. The reduction in force will align the department’s resources with “budget priorities and long-term goals,” said department spokesperson Sarah Morris in a s

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