Family Council to Testify Before Lottery Legislative Oversight Committee

Media Advisory for Immediate Release from Family Council

Family Council President Jerry Cox is planning to testify before members of the Arkansas Lottery Commission’s Legislative Oversight Committee this afternoon at 1:30 PM in Room 138 of the Arkansas Capitol Building.

Mr. Cox plans to ask committee members to disapprove of the Lottery Commission’s decision to roll out 100 lottery ticket vending machines across Arkansas.

Arkansas House Begins Streaming Meetings, Recording Video

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.

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