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45+ min ago (1269+ words) A committee meant to monitor the EFA program's performance has not met publicly in more than a year, records show, and it has failed to produce its required annual report by its Nov. 30 deadline. The Education Freedom Savings Account Oversight Committee once met multiple times per year. But according to its public page, the last time it convened was Nov. 25, 2024, shortly before finalizing its 2024 report. In a statement Thursday, Sen. Ruth Ward, a Stoddard Republican and the chairwoman of the committee, said the five-person committee had attempted to meet this year but failed to find a time for all members to convene " particularly those from the House. "Since the end of the legislative session, we have made several attempts to schedule a meeting," Ward said. "However, the House asked representatives to avoid travel during July and August, limiting available dates…...

1+ hour, 10+ min ago (625+ words) Police in Arkansas claim a woman and her two kids were found dead after they were fatally shot just one day after she attended her final divorce hearing. Sebastian County Sheriff's Office deputies responded to a call on Wednesday, December 3 around 9:30 a.m. for a welfare check at a home in Bonanza, Arkansas, according to a news release shared by the police department the following day. No one initially answered the door when police arrived. However, two workers at the property were able to let the authorities inside and they found the bodies of Charity Beallis and her two young children, according to the release. All three family members were dead upon arrival and were found with visible gunshot wounds. The children were not identified in the release, though online court documents in the divorce case listed both children as being born…...

3+ hour, 53+ min ago (187+ words) A bipartisan coalition of 36 AGs sent a letter to congressional leaders urging them to reject any effort to include a ban on state artificial intelligence laws in upcoming federal legislation, including reported attempts to insert such language into a military funding bill. READ MORE A group of 21 Democratic AG won summary judgment in their lawsuit to stop the implementation of an Executive Order that would effectively dismantle four federal agencies. READ MORE California AG Rob Bonta and the City of New York were joined by a bipartisan coalition of 24 AGs in sending a letter to Shopify Inc., urging the company to crack down on merchants using its e-commerce platform to sell illegal e-cigarettes and other unlawful tobacco products. READ MORE Seven Democratic AGs, co-led by North Carolina AG Jeff Jackson, sent letters to the six largest Buy-Now-Pay-Later providers seeking information…...

5+ hour, 31+ min ago (1097+ words) (The Conversation) " As disputes rage on over religion's place in public schools, the Ten Commandments have become a focal point. At least a dozen states have considered proposals that would require the posting of the Ten Commandments in classrooms, with Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas mandating their display in 2024 or 2025. As religion and education law researchers, we believe this situation is especially noteworthy because of its timing. In 2022, the Supreme Court adopted a new standard to assess religious freedom cases, which may come into play " and its judgments on religion's role in public education are perhaps the most religion-friendly they have ever been. Controversy over the commandments is not new. In more than a dozen early cases, courts generally upheld laws and policies mandating their recitation in schools. These enactments survived because the Supreme Court did not extend the First Amendment…...

5+ hour, 45+ min ago (1269+ words) A committee meant to monitor the EFA program's performance has not met publicly in more than a year, records show, and it has failed to produce its required annual report by its Nov. 30 deadline. The Education Freedom Savings Account Oversight Committee once met multiple times per year. But according to its public page, the last time it convened was Nov. 25, 2024, shortly before finalizing its 2024 report. In a statement Thursday, Sen. Ruth Ward, a Stoddard Republican and the chairwoman of the committee, said the five-person committee had attempted to meet this year but failed to find a time for all members to convene " particularly those from the House. "Since the end of the legislative session, we have made several attempts to schedule a meeting," Ward said. "However, the House asked representatives to avoid travel during July and August, limiting available dates…...

5+ hour, 57+ min ago (107+ words) Is a dollar in your pocket the same in Albuquerque as it is in New York City? The face value may be the same, but in reality that dollar just goes further in certain metro areas and states. Today's visualization shows the relative value of $100 in each U.S. state. It's based on data from GOBankingRates, which uses publicly available federal datasets such as those from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Affairs, and the U.S. Census American Consumer Survey to do the calculations. ...read more at visualcapitalist.com ~econ [1 comment] pull down to refresh...

7+ hour, 2+ min ago (192+ words) The City of Tulsa, Oklahoma and Tulsa Metropolitan Utility Authority (Tulsa) filed on November 26th a Request for Administrative Hearing (Request) before the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission objecting to a Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit issued to the City of Decatur, Arkansas. Tulsa alleges that it will be directly and negatively impacted by the issuance of NPDES Permit because increased flow into the Waste Water Treatment Plant and discharge from the Decatur WWTP will: " only result in greater pollution to the watershed Tulsa utilizes for clean water and result in damage to the people of Oklahoma and Northwest Arkansas. Tulsa also alleges that the issuance of the NPDES Permit is in violation of a Settlement Agreement involving the City of Decatur and several chicken producers in the United States District Court for the Northern…...

8+ hour ago (464+ words) CRAIGHEAD COUNTY, Ark. - Two people including a 14-year-old boy died after a crash Friday night in eastern Arkansas. According to the Arkansas State Police (ASP), it happened near the Lake City Bridge on Highway 18 in rural Craighead County. The agency said a 48-year-old driver crossed the center and struck a car being driven by an 18-year-old woman. ASP said she had five minors in the car with her. One of the passengers " a 14-year-old boy from Manila" died. The agency said everyone else in the car was left hospitalized; their conditions were not immediately known. The man who caused the crash also died, ASP said. The agency also reported that a third driver whose car was hit by the other two cars survived. Two people including a 14-year-old boy died after a crash Friday night in eastern Arkansas. Read More14-year-old…...

8+ hour, 20+ min ago (179+ words) Washington is finally putting real momentum behind permitting reform, and the House's'SPEED Act (H.R. 4776)'reflects a welcome recognition that our current system is too slow and too unpredictable to support... The post The SPEED Act is an opportunity to align permitting policy with grid reality appeared first on C3 Solutions. Washington is finally putting real momentum behind permitting reform, and the House's SPEED Act (H.R. 4776) reflects a welcome recognition that our current system is too slow and too unpredictable to support the kind of energy and economic growth the country is experiencing. The bill from House Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman, R-Ark., and Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, aims to modernize the National Environmental Policy Act by shortening environmental reviews, reducing litigation delays and engaging earlier with communities. These are meaningful, practical fixes that would give many energy and infrastructure projects a clearer and…...

8+ hour, 29+ min ago (90+ words) [Dr Nesher & Dr Tennak performing the transplant surgery at Rabin Medical Center. (photo credit: RABIN MEDICAL CENTER)]Cross-border coordination led by Israel's National Transplant Center enabled a rapid liver recovery in Nicosia and a successful transplant in Israel for 32-year-old Linoy Amsalem. Liver flown from Cyprus saves Israeli woman in overnight mission, Rabin Medical Center says Cross-border coordination led by Israel's National Transplant Center enabled a rapid liver recovery in Nicosia and a successful transplant in Israel for 32-year-old Linoy Amsalem....