This stretch of state Highway 22 at Barling outside Fort Smith is part of what will be designated as the True Grit Trail. (Editor’s Note: This is Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s weekly address for March 22.) We have successfully tackled some tough issues in the 92nd General Assembly, but not everything I sign is as serious […]
ARDOT Director Scott Bennett: “It gives us a lot more flexibility in where the money is spent in addition to allowing us to do just that much more in improvements.” By Noel Oman, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, March 14, 2019 The $95 million in additional money that will go to the Arkansas Department of Transportation annually as […]
By Steve Brawner, Talk Business & Politics, March 12, 2019 Arkansas motorists will pay 3 cents more for a gallon of gasoline and 6 cents more for diesel after Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed part of what he called “the largest highway plan in the state’s history” into law Tuesday (March 12). Act 416 by Sen. […]
By Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, March 8, 2019 The Arkansas Senate on Thursday handily approved referring to voters in the 2020 general election a proposed constitutional amendment that would permanently extend the state’s half-percent sales tax for highways. The tax originally was approved by voters in 2012 for just 10 years. Without any debate, […]
By Hunter Field, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, March 5, 2019 The Arkansas House on Monday approved Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s plan to raise more than $300 million a year for state highways with gambling-tax receipts, a fuel-tax increase, higher annual fees for some cars and a proposed constitutional amendment to permanently levy an existing half-percent sales tax. By […]