Arkansas Week
"Arkansas Week" airs Fridays at 8 p.m. Each week, a dedicated, distinguished group of Arkansas journalists and political scientists discuss issues in the news.
Barnes has been on the air in the Natural State since 1968 when he started as a copy boy on weekends at KTHV-TV Channel 11 in Little Rock. His adept hand at leading journalists and others in a discussion of current events complements his encyclopedic knowledge of the state, its players and its past. Barnes has not only become one of the most recognizable and respected people within Arkansas, but has connected with a national audience through work published in the New York Times, fed to the Reuters news service and shown on networks ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and PBS. He has been a recipient of the University of Arkansas’ journalist of the year award, as well as receiving first prize for television documentary awarded by the Society of Professional Journalists.
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February 3, 2012
(Revenues) The January numbers, not bad, not stellar. (Budget) Working with what we have, how much room, according to whom? (Taxes) Efforts to add a little room, which effort, if any can succeed? (GOP) And Arkansas Republicans, the landscape after Florida.
January 27, 2012
(FY13) A budget session draws near, which holes to plug, and how? (Tax?) The governor takes a second look at a higher levy and has second thoughts. (Exchange) In the legislative partisan split over health reform. (SOTU) And the State of the Union, and the state of Florida.
January 20, 2012
(Budget) State spending come July 1, there's little room for maneuver. (Tort) For a second time on the same issue, the judicial slaps the legislative hand. (D.C.) The Arkansas six, piracy, and a pipeline. (Primary) And Saturday in South Carolina, how much make and how much break?
January 13, 2012
(Year 6) Audits, appointments, actuaries, appropriations, the downside of being governor. (Cuts) Not all federal spending, it seems, is wasteful. (Mayors) A record tenure in one town ends, will another end in record time? ( Romney?) And will Arkansas Republicans learn to love Mitt? Will they have to?
January 6, 2012
(Taxes) Collections are up, up, but as always caution is the watchword. (Rangers) Where is the forest, and what are the trees? (DOD) A leaner Pentagon, how thinner Arkansas? (GOP) And where Arkansas Republicans, post-Iowa, pre-New Hampshire?
Arkansas Week: Special Edition with Senator Mark Pryor
Steve Barnes sits down for a conversation with U.S. Senator Mark Pryor
Arkansas Week: Special Edition with Senator John Boozman
Steve Barnes sits down for a conversation with U.S. Senator John Boozman
December 16, 2011
(5/10) The Highway Commission backs away from new districts. So, what? (D.C.) In Washington, the stalemate continues. So, what's new? (2011) We'll look at the stories that made politics and policy news this year... (Adieu) ...and take note of the newmakers who left the stage.
December 9, 2011
(Tort) The state Supreme Court says no to business and the legislature. (Lottery) With sales down, so likely will be the sum of the scholarships. (2? 4?) As it is, has the lottery brought on unintended consequences? (Layoffs) If the economy is ever so gradually improving, don't tell them that at the forestry office.
December 2, 2011
(Spurt) How green the season? Christmas retail begins. (Sputter) The Beebe administration says it might but that Red Ryder, if probably not the ammo. (DHS/ADC) State agencies, relief at one, a reprimand at another. (GOP 2012) And can the south propel it's latest favorite?
November 25, 2011
(8.2) A tenth of a point improvement but we'll take it. (1.2T) Fifty points over a decade, and we may have to take it. (Budget) If we do where will we take it, or feel it? (Polls) And which party, or partisans will take it, or feel it, a year from now?
November 18, 2011
(Dollars) Hang on to your seats, we've got some pretty good news about the economy. (Jobs) Stimulus? Our delegates give a thumbs-up. (No-go) The state Education Board and charter schools, caution, yet some close votes. (UCA) And, if not routinely, a university campus is back in the news.
November 11, 2011
(Bonds) The highway program wins in a walk... (Taxes) ...but in two of three cities, voters balk. (D1) The delta district's new lines, a 36-hour story? (Shale) Do the regulators have the regulators and the resources they need?
