Arkansas Times' Week In Review Podcast

Send us a textArkansas Times editors Max Brantley and Lindsey Millar talk about Jason Rapert getting sued, John Thurston’s Big Bass Boat bonanza and Governor Hutchinson’s government restructuring plan.We welcome your feedback. Write us at podcasts@arktimes.com

Send us a textArkansas Times editors Max Brantley and Lindsey Millar talk about the Kavanaugh hearing and local reaction, the status of ballot issues and legislative corruption.We welcome your feedback. Write us at podcasts@arktimes.com

Send us a textArkansas Times editors Max Brantley and Lindsey Millar talk about the Arkansas Judicial and Disability Commission charging six members of the Arkansas Supreme Court with ethics violations, the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality recommending the denial of a new permit for C&H Hog Farm and other odds and ends.We welcome your feedback. Write us at podcasts@arktimes.com

Send us a textArkansas Times editors Max Brantley and Lindsey Millar talk about the latest court hearings in the sprawling public corruption case that’s rocked Arkansas politics; various educational dealings, including a change in Arkansas Governor's School and discussion on the return of local control for the Little Rock School District; and government transformation.We welcome your feedback. Write us at podcasts@arktimes.com

Send us a textArkansas Times editors Max Brantley and Lindsey Millar talk about all the latest big developments on the public corruption front, including the sentencing of Jon Woods to 18 years in prison; also a circuit judge ruling Issue 1, the so-called tort reform amendment referred by the legislature; and the first cut of Medicaid recipients because of work requirement rules. We welcome your feedback. Write us at podcasts@arktimes.com

Send us a textArkansas Times editors Max Brantley and Lindsey Millar talk about state Republicans' tax cut plans, the latest in the legal battle over abortion rights in Arkansas and Leslie Rutledge’s past work record.We welcome your feedback. Write us at podcasts@arktimes.com

Send us a textArkansas Times editors Max Brantley and Lindsey Millar talk about the long-anticipated filing of a federal lawsuit challenging Arkansas’s work requirement rules for Medicaid recipients, a First Amendment showdown on the Capitol grounds and gun violence in Arkansas.We welcome your feedback. Write us at podcasts@arktimes.com

Send us a textArkansas Times editors Max Brantley and Lindsey Millar discuss the potential coming conflict between the Hutchinson administration and the Little Rock Education Association, a federal court ruling on student transfers and allegations of another debtor’s prison. We welcome your feedback. Write us at podcasts@arktimes.com

Send us a textArkansas Times editors Max Brantley and Lindsey Millar talk about the term limit ballot measure, which qualified for the ballot today; differences emerging among Little Rock mayoral candidates and the unflattering Little Rock connection in Brett Kavanaugh’s past.We welcome your feedback. Write us at podcasts@arktimes.com

Send us a textThis week, Max and Benji talk about the medical marijuana commission's decision to use a consultant to score dispensary applications, the unsettling proliferation of algae on the Buffalo River and the unsettling proliferation of armed personnel in schools. Also: the state tries to spin low college-going rates and two freeway widening projects in Little Rock speed happily along.We welcome your feedback. Write us at podcasts@arktimes.com

Send us a textArkansas Times editors Max Brantley and Lindsey Millar discuss a new guilty plea in the seemingly ever expanding public corruption scandal, the state Board of Corrections voting to fire the direct of the parole and probations division and a lawsuit aimed at halting I-630 expansion.We welcome your feedback. Write us at podcasts@arktimes.com

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Send us a textThis week's topics include the downfall of one of the state's largest behavioral health providers, a preview of ballot initiatives facing voters this November, and another twist in the state's absurdist medical marijuana drama. Lindsey is MIA this week, so Max and Benji get to know each other better.We welcome your feedback. Write us at podcasts@arktimes.com

Send us a textArkansas Times editors Max Brantley and Lindsey Millar talk about the arrest of a former Medicaid integrity director, the suspension of a major health care provider from Medicaid, the arrest of a state representative for failure to pay taxes and more.We welcome your feedback. Write us at podcasts@arktimes.com

Send us a textArkansas Times editors Max Brantley and Lindsey Millar discuss the guilty plea of Rusty Cranford, the latest in the medical marijuana application debacle and Judge Wendell Griffen and ethics.We welcome your feedback. Write us at podcasts@arktimes.com

Send us a textArkansas Times editors Max Brantley and Lindsey Millar discuss the court decision that led Arkansas to be the first state in the country where women can’t get medication abortions, Max’s annual trip to Boys State and a federal court hearing that could determine whether Arkansas can legally resegregate public schools.We welcome your feedback. Write us at podcasts@arktimes.com

Send us a textArkansas Times editors Max Brantley and Lindsey Millar discuss midterm election results, ballot initiatives and the emergence of Baker Kurrus in the Little Rock mayoral race.We welcome your feedback. Write us at podcasts@arktimes.com

Send us a textArkansas Times editors Max Brantley and Lindsey Millar discuss the coming primary and judicial elections, especially the dark money flowing into a race for an Arkansas Supreme Court position; also Leslie Rutledge and the ballot initiative process and the Razorbacks and War Memorial.We welcome your feedback. Write us at podcasts@arktimes.com

Send us a textArkansas Times editor Lindsey Millar and contributor Benji Hardy discuss the Democratic primary for the 2nd Congressional District, sovereign immunity and Leslie Rutledge and the Little Rock mayoral race.We welcome your feedback. Write us at podcasts@arktimes.com

Send us a textThe Jon Woods corruption trial, the guilty plea of another former state senator, Hank Wilkins, and the Supreme Court allowing voter ID to stand during the primary — all covered on this week's podcast.We welcome your feedback. Write us at podcasts@arktimes.com