... state Senate in Faulkner County. He was uncommonly perched for a legislative Republican as co-chairman of the Joint Budget Committee. Life was good. I told him I thought I'd blog it that he wouldn't run. And he got agitated. His voice ...

... director of the Education Department. He knows well and understands the state budget process, workings of the Joint Budget Committee and how each entity's entitlement is determined and approved. He knows and has worked with many/most of the ...

... Legislature to prevent a lesbian, the hard-working Rep. Kathy Webb of Little Rock, from becoming chairman of the Joint Budget Committee. Every panelist promptly condemned the statement, including state Sen. Gilbert Baker of Conway, our only Republican ...

... Speaker of the House Robbie Wills, D-Conway; District 30 Sen. Gilbert Baker, R-Conway, chairman of the Joint Budget Committee; District 47 Rep. Eddie Hawkins, D-Vilonia; District 45 Rep. Linda Tyler, D-Conway; and District 42 ...

... release. Courtway was one of the first university presidents to present a higher education budget to the state's Joint Budget Committee/Legislative Council in October. He said at that time although the hearing went well, some legislators were ...

... room divvying up the money politics," Baker said. "And I'm looking forward to serving as chairman of the joint budget committee because we have a say in where the monies flow." (Staff writer Jessica Bauer can be reached by e-mail at ...

... from one of the state's rare two-party cultures, Conway and Faulkner County. Now he becomes chairman of the Joint Budget Committee. If the Republicans have anyone who might stand a chance of solidifying the conservative suburbs of the Second ...

... agenda for the upcoming session: Sen. Gilbert Baker, R-Conway, incoming Senate chairman of the powerful Joint Budget Committee. The 52-year-old former teacher and administrator at the University of Central Arkansas won no points with ...

... economic forecast update in March." Rep. Bruce Maloch, D-Magnolia, who will serve as House chairman of Joint Budget Committee during the 2009 session, also believes the Legislature should delay any decision on tax cuts. "You either turn ...

... afterward, was one of 17 senators who drew a four-year term. In 1982, he won a seat on the powerful legislative Joint Budget Committee, which controlled appropriation bills that provided the money on which state government operated. 10 years ago ...