Lake View, Arkansas

Entering their first regular session of the post-Lake View era, lawmakers say they want to avoid backsliding into another years-long school funding battle.

State Rep. Mike Kenney, R-Siloam Springs, looked back Friday on his nearly finished three terms in the Arkansas House of Representatives.

Arkansas judges are underpaid, putting the bench in danger of attracting inferior legal minds, Arkansas Supreme Court justices told a committee of businessmen, lawyers and bankers Wednesday.