Page 5 - Michael Wickline News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

January 24, 20219:20 am Attorney General Leslie Rutledge’s use of public money to provide plump featherbeds for Republican insiders. As we’d reported previously, former GOP Party Chair Doyle Webb got the biggest public teat — $150,000 a year as “staff director” of Rutledge’s one-third share of the board that oversees legislative apportionment. Former Republican legislators Andy Davis and Doug House are suckling on the state nozzle at $6,666 a month to work on the same project. Advertisement Wickline’s article provided some useful history. Ten years ago, when the board of appo...

The Arkansas rich get richer, 2021 edition The Arkansas rich get richer, 2021 edition January 1, 20218:57 am WHO BENEFITS: This charts how Governor Hutchinson’s two-year tax cut broke down in benefits by income category. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette today noted in detail the coming of yet another income tax cut for the wealthy of Arkansas in 2021. Advertisement The top marginal rate, imposed on all income over a measly $8,000 or so, will drop from 6.6 to 5.9 percent, an income tax cut of better than 10 percent. This is on top of a 5 percent cut in the top bracket tax rate last year. Adver...

Friction at the Arkansas Lottery: A firing and hushup of a $2 million winner ERIC HAGLER Persistent reports about unhappiness in the ranks about new Arkansas Lottery director Eric Hagler burst into the open yesterday. Advertisement ERIC HAGLER: Making news at the Arkansas Lottery. I learned Friday about a disagreement over his decision not to release to the public the names of winners of $2 million in a Powerball drawing in September. And today, Michael Wickline of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported that Hagler had fired the lottery’s chief legal counsel, Mic...