... a voter-approved state lottery, which the group opposed, or ratify the federal Equal Rights Amendment. Rep. Lindsley Smith, D-Fayetteville, whose resolution for state ratification of the ERA narrowly failed to win a House committee ...

... damnable religious intolerance we fight elsewhere in the world? Can't we see ourselves as Taliban-Lite? Rep. Lindsley Smith of Fayetteville has an 82-year-old constituent, an American history buff, who has convinced her, quite appropriately ...

... can't vote with your head, you've got to vote with your heart." Pyle had an unexpected ally in liberal Rep. Lindsley Smith, who said she supported the bill because it was an issue of separation of church and state. Smith, D-Fayetteville ...

... create the new position in the 4th Judicial District. The district includes Madison and Washington counties. Rep. Lindsley Smith, D-Fayetteville, said judges in the district see hundreds more cases each year than the state average. The bill ...

... Judiciary Committee Chairman Steve Harrelson, D-Texarkana, said the panel will consider the proposal by Rep. Lindsley Smith, D-Fayetteville. The proposal is a revised version of a bill Smith pushed two years ago requiring attorney fees ...

... again to persuade her colleagues to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, 27 years after the deadline passed. Rep. Lindsley Smith, D-Fayetteville, filed a resolution on Tuesday to ratify the ERA, a proposal that failed before a House panel ...

... that requires employers to provide unpaid break time for working mothers to pump breast milk. The bill, by Rep. Lindsley Smith of Fayetteville, exempts employers if it would be an "undue hardship" to permit unpaid breaks. The bill's backers ...

... Freedom of Information Act challenges to recover attorneys fees from state government agencies. The bill by Rep. Lindsley Smith of Fayetteville now goes to the House. Her measure would not allow courts to force state agencies to pay attorneys ...

... said Madison. A similar proposal filed in the House in 2007 failed to get out of committee. The sponsor, Rep. Lindsley Smith, D-Fayetteville, filed the measure again this session, but House Joint Resolution 1014 has not come up for a ...

... begins July 1 to eliminate the surcharge Jan. 1. The House formalized the decision Friday with a 94-1 vote. Rep. Lindsley Smith, D-Fayetteville, the only House member to vote against the repeal, said the vote was unnecessary because of provisions ...