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FAYETTEVILLE -- Five of the six Republican candidates for lieutenant governor gave voters a wide range of reasons they are the best one for the job Friday.
Five of the six Republican candidates for lieutenant governor gave voters a wide range of reasons they’re the best one for the job Friday.
Covid dangers are real and vaccines are safe, but anti-covid measures such as mask and vaccine mandates by government and private businesses have been too broad-brush and punitive, the state surgeon general said Tuesday.
Republican field expands for lieutenant governor with Washington County judge Republican field expands for lieutenant governor with Washington County judge Joseph Wood, the Washington County judge, has joined the Republican field for lieutenant governor, which already includes Surgeon General Gregory Bledsoe, former Republican Party chair Doyle Webb, and state Sen. Jason Rapert. Advertisement Wood is distinguished, if that’s the word, by the smelly path by which he landed the county judge’s office, some questionable hiring practices, squelching minority Democrats on the Washington Count...
The House today voted 72-20 to approve SB 289 to allow refusal of medical services on reasons of “conscience.” It is aimed at protecting people who don’t want to participate, particularly, in contraception, abortion or services to gay and transgender people. Advertisement Rep. Brandt Smith defended the bill as modeled after bills in Mississippi and Illinois and said it contained protections to avoid discrimination. That’s not true. The laws in both states are substantially different. As Rep. Tippi McCullough pointed out in the sole speech in opposition, the Mississippi bill specifica...