... news coverage of Arkansas legislative wrangling over the lottery, tobacco tax, trauma system and such. State Rep. Gregg Reep, D-Warren, has introduced a bill to make the blue catfish the official Arkansas fish. Good readers, you will want ...

... support Beebe's proposal, and the state Democratic Party sent out an e-mail Friday urging support for the plan. Rep. Gregg Reep, D-Warren, says he will file the tax-hike legislation Monday, when supporters also are expected to hold a rally ...

... in the dysfunction that we may see in other countries," Martin told members Friday. Martin shouted out while Rep. Gregg Reep was describing his bill Thursday, which would fund health-care programs and a new statewide trauma center. Reep ...

... What this really means is Arkansas citizens will be healthier and better cared-for when they are sick," Rep. Gregg Reep, D-Warren, said after approval of the tobacco tax bill that he sponsors. The cigarette tax hike would raise about ...

... to be on these." The House is expected to consider the tobacco tax measure Thursday. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Gregg Reep, D-Warren, passed on a voice vote without dissent in committee. House Speaker Robbie Wills, D-Conway, has said ...

... circle includes Reps. Bruce Maloch, D-Magnolia; Johnnie Roebuck, D-Arkadelphia; Bill Abernathy, D-Mena; Gregg Reep, D-Warren; and Sens. Steve Faris, D-Malvern; Mary Anne Salmon, D-North Little Rock; and Tracy Steele, D ...

... spokesman Matt DeCample said. The legislation was assigned to the House Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee. Rep. Gregg Reep, D-Warren, and that panel's chairman, is the lead sponsor of Beebe's tobacco tax proposal. Beebe's plan ...

... the House, concerned because of the state's tight budget and the nation's struggling economy. Last week, Rep. Gregg Reep, D-Warren, filed House Bill 1204, which would raise the cigarette tax by 56 cents a pack. Along with a small tax ...

... who tried to convince his one-time aide that he shouldn't view the program as a big government entitlement. Rep. Gregg Reep, D-Warren, the House's lead sponsor of the tobacco tax, told lawmakers last week just before voting to approve ...

... the mill was rebuilt and today Wood Lumber Company owns the business. Only remnants of the 1949 plant remain. Mayor Gregg Reep, whose father worked at the Bradley saw mill when the 1949 tornado hit, said the city has suffered no long-term economic ...