Politicians in Jefferson City want to make the citizen initiative petition process impossible to use. Don’t let them. | ...

The legal battle centers on a measure that would make it virtually impossible for most citizen-led amendments to pass on the ...

Once again, Republicans in the Missouri legislature have shown that they have no respect for the voters in Missouri, or democracy. An article in the News-Leader on Sept. 9 detailed how they are ...

New developments tonight in a controversy rocking the Jacksonville North Pulaski School District. A former elementary school principal is out of a job, and her Longtime Stuttgart journalist Bill Shrum ...

Arkansas awards Medal of Freedom to fallen Navy SEAL Adam Brown Arkansas leaders honored a fallen Navy SEAL from Hot Springs on Friday as Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders posthumously awarded the Arkansas ...

Two ballot campaigns with similar measures could be vying for signatures, funding and attention this summer and fall. The League of Women Voters of Arkansas and Protect AR Rights have similar goals -- ...

A proposed constitutional amendment to overhaul direct democracy in Arkansas has had its ballot language rejected for the second time. Protect AR Rights, the sponsor of a proposed constitutional ...

Democracy is a simple concept: People exercise their collective agency to rule themselves so they can ensure their own well-being. Democracy is the opposite of autocracy, serving as a disavowal of ...

Our state’s constitution does something that makes some politicians very uncomfortable: It reserves for the people of Arkansas a set of legislative powers. (Did you know that you, an Arkansas citizen, ...

In Arkansas, we the people have a constitutional right to shape our state’s future through ballot initiatives. Our state constitution grants citizens the power to propose and vote on changes to the ...

Democracy is in crisis. Many people are losing confidence in political parties and parliaments and their ability to solve pressing social problems in the long term. Recent studies by the University of ...