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Week-In-Review: Death Penalty, Mayflower Oil, LRSD Union, Health Insurance Up, Cruz 2016, LR 9

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This week the KUAR News team discusses Arkansas’s plan to resume executions, a consent decree over the 2013 oil spill in Mayflower, new terms of negotiation for the teachers’ union in Little Rock, Arkansas’s rank as first in the nation for cutting the uninsured rate since the Affordable Care Act, a visit from 2016 GOP contender Ted Cruz, and a campaign to restore the home of Daisy Bates.

Michael Hibblen was a journalist for KUAR News from May 2009 — December 2022. During his final 10 years with the station, he served as News Director. In January 2023, he was hired by Arkansas PBS to become its Senior Producer/ Director of Public Affairs.
Jacob Kauffman is a former news anchor and reporter for KUAR.
Sarah Whites-Koditschek is a former News Anchor/ Reporter for KUAR News and Arkansas Public Media.