As Arkansas’ next legislative session approaches, we want citizens to become familiar with the legislators whose decisions will impact you—for better or worse—when they start meeting in January. That’s why we’ve created a guide with all 35 of our state senators, complete with their pictures, party affiliation (denoted by blue for Democrat and red for Republican) and district number. You can download it by clicking here.
Since Tuesday, I’ve had the opportunity to meet many of the folks who just got elected to office. Some of them have been around the political process before, but many of them are brand new. Here’s my first impression of a lot of the folks I’m meeting.
In the last few years, video has become a major component of the Internet. Nowadays you can upload video to YouTube directly from your cell phone; you can broadcast yourself live using services like Ustream (like we did for Arkansas very first live, online townhall about health care last August); you can even watch the Olympics online. More people expect to be able to watch a video of the news online—not just read about it—and in keeping with that trend, the Arkansas House of Representatives has begun streaming some of its meetings live online.