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Rep. James "French" Hill, an Arkansas Republican, comments on Dodd-Frank regulations and tax reform during an interview with Bloomberg's Kevin Cirilli. (Source: Bloomberg) Read more »

The Veterans Affairs hospital in Little Rock has activated its solar panels, ending a five-year saga of mismanagement and overspending on the project. The U.S. Department of Veterans affairs missed its project deadline by four years and exceeded its budget by $1.5 million, prompting a nationwide review of similar projects at VA facilities nationwide. Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare… Read more »

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — The solar panel system at Little Rock's Veterans Hospital has finally been turned on four years after the project began. Entergy Arkansas cleared the way Sunday for Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System to power on the solar panels at John L McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital. “This is an exciting day for CAVHS,” Dr. Margie Scott,… Read more »

LITTLE ROCK, AR (KAIT/KATV) - A four-year-long project to install a solar panel system at the Little Rock Veterans Hospital finally happened earlier this week.  According to a story from Little Rock television station KATV, Entergy Arkansas approved the plan for the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System at the John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital.  At least… Read more »

Naomi Wolf, author, political journalist and cofounder of DailyClout: ‘Trump didn’t do this. You did this. Your own inaction brought us exactly here’ The first 100 days of President Donald Trump: how has my life changed? First of all, there was the mourning period. Not for me, but for my fellow citizens. I was just mad. And I wasn’t even maddest at the Trump… Read more »

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- This week on Capitol View, we focus on executions in Arkansas.  Attorney General Leslie Rutledge joins the program to break down the legal back-and-forth we experienced throughout the week leading up to the execution of convicted killer Ledell Lee.  Rutledge also provides insight into legal proceedings as we approach three scheduled executions in the days… Read more »

LITTLE ROCK, Ark,   --  Former Arkansas Congressman Jay Dickey has died. Dickey, who was a Republican from Pine Bluff, was our 4th district congressman from 1993-2001. Jay Dickey was 77 years old. Statements from Arkansas Republicans on Dickey's passing: “Jay Dickey was a trailblazer in Arkansas politics, becoming the first Republican elected to represent the… Read more »

When Pine Bluff native and former 4th District Congressman Jay Woodson Dickey Jr. was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1992, he made history by being the first-ever Republican to hold the office. Dickey died Thursday night at Jefferson Regional Medical Center after a battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 77. Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson released a statement Friday… Read more »

There’s regular intelligence, and there’s emotional intelligence, which is the ability to recognize and control your own emotions and to influence the emotions of others. If you’re a member of Congress, you need both, but if you’re a member of Congress participating in a town hall, and you can only be blessed with one, it’d better be emotional… Read more »

This is getting to be old hat for Sen. Tom Cotton. This time he was joined on stage by U.S. Rep. French Hill. The pair had to listen to the crowd boo and jeer--and sometimes cheer--as they talked about the president's taxes, Obamacare, Syrian attacks and Russian hacking. But the two gentlemen seem to think it's part of their job to stand up to the criticism their opponents serve up at… Read more »