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Opinion: Arkansas judges cannot deny bail to accused rapists and child sex abusers. Voters can change that.

A Marion County judge told the courtroom Tuesday that Arkansas law required him to set a bond for Steven Lawrence Manson. That was the whole of what he said about it. He was right. And the law that required it is more than 150 years old. Article 2, Section 8 of the Arkansas Constitution says…

ByChris FultonAugust 19, 20260Comments

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Opinion: When dangerous defendants walk out on low bonds, no one answers for it

A man charged with 49 counts of child pornography, who also kept a pipe bomb, roughly 50 firearms and a stash of drugs in his home, is sitting in that home today. Michael Wamser walked out of the Baxter County jail this month on a $50,000 bond. Two months earlier, his bond was $400,000. He…

ByChris FultonJune 16, 20260Comments

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State Audit finds Constitutional conflict in Briarcliff finances as City Treasurer wages social media campaign to spin findings

A state audit released last month found the City of Briarcliff violated the Arkansas Constitution and failed to maintain required public records, but a former city official who resigned amid one of the region's most entangled governance crises in recent memory is now waging a social media campaign claiming the report vindicates her tenure, a…

ByChris FultonMarch 19, 20260Comments

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Baxter County Quorum Court found to have violated Arkansas Constitution with taxpayer handout to MH Saddle Club

It was a taxpayer handout that should have never happened. A 2022 Arkansas Legislative Audit has found that the Baxter County Quorum Court's $275,000 taxpayer handout to the Mountain Home Saddle Club to be in violation of Arkansas’s Constitution. In addition to that finding, the audit also concluded that the county violated the state constitution…

ByChris FultonJanuary 4, 20240Comments

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