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Arkansas House Speaker Matthew Shepherd has appointed a former staffer to the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission, according to a news release from the speakers office Monday.

Arkansas House Speaker Matthew Shepherd has appointed a former staffer, Amber Pool, to the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission, according to a news release Monday from the speaker’s office.

Senate President Pro Tempore Bart Hester, R-Cave Springs, has proposed adding two security officers to the appropriation for Lt. Gov. Leslie Rutledges office in the next fiscal year and changing state law so that the Arkansas State Police would no longer be responsible for the safety and security of the lieutenant governor and her family.

Occasionally, a writer will opine that Arkansas could do without a lieutenant governor altogether because the office, with its small staff and budget, along with its limited statutory and constitutional authority, is essentially useless, and wed be better off without it.

Occasionally, a writer will opine that Arkansas could do without a lieutenant governor altogether because the office, with its small staff and budget, along with its limited statutory and constitutional authority, is essentially useless, and wed be better off without it.