Despite decades of evidence it won't work, corrections officials will spend $50K to drill two wells on Franklin Co. prison site. Their backup plans seem even worse, somehow. https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2025/06/27/board-of-corrections-to-spend-50000-on-two-test-wells-on-franklin-county-prison-site
Remember, months ago, she told you this site had already been studied extensively by teams of experts who determined it to be “the best place in the state” for a mega prison.
Roe v. Wade was overturned three years ago today.
Things for Arkansas families have gotten much, much worse since then, but instead of trying to fix them, the Governor and her cronies are refusing to deal with the maternal and infant mortality rates.
But for too long, many of our state politicians have been operating in the shadows, prioritizing interests of the wealthy and powerful over interests of the people. They put partisanship and deep-pocket campaign donors ahead of us, the voters.
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