| Aug 31, 2022 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThose who wish to perpetuate the failed public policy of cannabis criminalization have lost the hearts and minds of the American public. And they know it. With public support for marijuana policy reform reaching super-majority status in recent years, prohibitionists...
| Feb 27, 2019 | Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyAn Arkansas lawmaker wants to cut school lunch funding for schools that fail to improve their students’ reading levels. I’m sorry, what? I think I understand the logic behind such a proposal. I just strongly disagree with it. It’s cruel, but even more than that, it’s...
| Jul 20, 2018 | Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyMy state, Tennessee, has the highest rate of hospital closures per capita of any state in the nation. Meanwhile, neighboring Arkansas — which has expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act — has experienced zero hospital closures since expansion. Those were the...
| Apr 17, 2013 | Environment / HealthSeveral weeks after ExxonMobil’s Pegasus pipeline gushed at least 500,000 gallons of tar sands crude and water into the Arkansas community of Mayflower, many of the evacuated families still can’t return to their homes. Sierra Club organizer Glen Hooks, who...