... seniority and install a secret ballot. Johnson is the second Senate leader the group has produced, after outgoing pro tem Jack Critcher in 2007. Johnson sponsored the 2005 legislation that opened the door to new electronic games of skill at Arkansas ...

... I know," Beebe told news reporters before speaking to an education group. Earlier in the day, Senate President Jack Critcher, D-Batesville, and House Speaker Benny Petrus, D-Stuttgart, said it was too late for the governor to call a ...

... improvements, but said he's short of the 75 percent needed in both chambers to pass such an increase. Senate President Jack Critcher has said he supports Beebe's proposal, but House Speaker Benny Petrus said he'd like to see a gas-tax increase ...

... during the session that everybody supported it. The problem was how do we pay for it," Senate President Pro Tem Jack Critcher, D-Batesville, said Thursday. Funding was expected to be among the topics discussed today at a joint meeting of ...

... Vickie Critcher, the wife of outgoing Senate President Jack Critcher, D-Batesville, and Linda Bisbee, the wife of Sen ... husband's record in the state Senate. McLean says Jack Critcher's record is fair game if he and Vickie Critcher are ...

... the first time since 1957. "I look for a dull and non-eventful three-day session," Senate President Pro Tem Jack Critcher said. - Advertisement - The main item on the legislative agenda is Beebe's proposal to raise the severance tax to ...

... Cervantes, state director of LULAC. "Why would you say something like that even in a whisper?" Senate President Jack Critcher said he spoke Thursday with Altes and said he didn't believe the e-mail indicated any racist feelings or bigotry ...

... final decision is still pending, Wilson said. Charles and Wilson, whose appointment by Senate President Pro Tem Jack Critcher, D-Batesville, is in question, agreed that the tiff among the panel's disputed membership has delayed the hiring ...

... allowing toddlers to marry presumably wasn't the type of attention Beebe wanted for the state. Senate President Jack Critcher, D-Batesville, said adding the marriage age issue to the agenda for any upcoming special session would be preferable ...

... limits. The ballot will feature plenty of familiar names. Vickie Critcher, the wife of term limited Senate President Jack Critcher, D-Batesville, faces James McLean in the Democratic primary for the House District 72 seat. And Linda Bisbee ...