Arkansas Times' Week In Review Podcast

Arkansas Times Max Brantley and Lindsey Millar talk about the big vote against a city sales tax increase and the political considerations surrounding that result, the decision of a special prosecutor to try a former deputy in the shooting death of Hunter Brittain in Lonoke County and the latest in COVID news.

Arkansas Times editors Max Brantley and Lindsey Millar talk about local reaction to a coming federal vaccine mandate, rent relief and renters rights, the death of Little Rock City Director Erma Hendrix and various Republican politicians saying and doing awful things.

Arkansas Times editors Max Brantley and Lindsey Millar talk about the latest coronavirus news, the new abortion ban in Texas and what it might mean for Arkansas and the Little Rock sales tax election.

Arkansas Times editors Max Brantley and Lindsey Millar talk about the latest coronavirus news, the downfall of Lyon College President Joey King and more

Arkansas Times editors Max Brantley and Lindsey Millar talk about the latest COVID-19 news and the politics of critical race theory.

Arkansas Times editors Max Brantley and Lindsey Millar talk about all things coronavirus in Arkansas and the trial of lobbyist and former Arkansas Republican Party chairman Gilbert Baker. 

Arkansas Times editors Austin Bailey and Lindsey Millar discuss a judge's ruling against a state law that prohibited public mask mandates and the terrible special legislative session. 

Come kvetch with us about Arkansas's legislative ban on protecting kids from COVID-19. Also on tap, the Little Rock sales tax, sleazebaggery inside Arkansas's nursing home empire and a silver medal Olympian from Wooster.

Arkansas Times editors Max Brantley and Lindsey Millar talk about COVID-19 and the prohibition on mask mandates, a legal victory for transgender kids and teens and a new report that suggests a deeper reckoning is needed in the Arkansas Department of Transportation in the wake of the discovery of a crack in the Hernando DeSoto Bridge over Memphis.

Arkansas Times editors Max Brantley and Lindsey Millar talk again about this third surge of the coronavirus in Arkansas; political news in Arkansas, including Jake Bequette's campaign to unseat U.S. Sen. John Boozman; and the continuing fallout related to Walter Hussman's relationship with the University of North Carolina Journalism School.

Arkansas Timed editors Max Brantley and Lindsey Millar talk about the Delta variant of the coronavirus raging in Arkansas, the release of the LRSD from state control, the Republican Party's obsession with race-baiting politics and the funeral of Hunter Brittain

Arkansas Times editors Max Brantley and Lindsey Millar talk about the Delta variant of the coronavirus taking hold in Arkansas, Governor Hutchinson's deployment of National Guard troops to the border, the police killing of a Lonoke County teen, the LRSD poised to be released from state control and the Little Rock sales tax election.

While Editor Lindsey Millar lounges seaside, Max Brantley and Austin Bailey chew on the news of the week: racism, justice, the delta variant and those perfect churros from Mercado San Jose.

Arkansas Times editors Max Brantley and Lindsey Millar talk about the resignation of University of Arkansas Chancellor Joe Steinmetz, the candidacy of Chris Jones, running to be the Democratic nominee for the Arkansas governor's race; and the Little Rock sales tax election.

Arkansas Times editors Max Brantley and Lindsey Millar talk about Arkansas Democrat-Gazette publisher Walter Hussman and the controversy surrounding journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and the University of North Carolina Journalism Department, the state of Arkansas's massive revenue surplus and a federal lawsuit filed by a lawyer who alleges his contract with the state was terminated after he criticized a lawmaker for supporting anti-transgender legislation.

The federal courthouse in Little Rock is hopping with challenges to Arkansas’s worst new laws. Plus: the West Little Rock chopper and new old blood at the Pulaski County Election Commission.

Arkansas Times editors Max Brantley and Lindsey Millar talk about the expiration of the COVID-19 emergency order in Arkansas, the continuing fallout related to damaged I-40 Mississippi River Bridge and other odds and ends.

This week, Max and Austin talk about nightmares of plummeting off the I-40 bridge and into the Mississippi, unemployment misery, Little Rock sales tax drama and a surprise visit from 50 Cent.

Arkansas Times editors Max Brantley and Lindsey Millar talk about the Little Rock sales tax proposal; the Arkansas Supreme Court, the state Plant Board and dicamba; new candidates for state office; and more.

Arkansas Times editors Max Brantley and Lindsey Millar talk about the end of the legislative session, vaccine hesitancy and COVID worries and Josh Duggar.