The first problem is we've had this border opened and people coming across the border for the last several years with no checks and balances. It's just like water going over a dam when a lake gets full. The borders have not been secure. The borders are porous.

What we have to do is make sure more people are in that pool of having some opportunity to have some coverage so that we lessen that pressure to increase prices to make up for those losses.

Utility representatives will not show up at your door unannounced and will not ask for banking information in unsolicited phone calls. If you get a request for personal information that leaves you skeptical, contact my office and we can help determine if the call was legitimate.

What I found is that in all of the major leaps forward that Arkansas has had over the last 20 years ... it's always been a collaboration, a partnership between the private sector and the public sector.

We have a Supreme Court justice who said, 'You all have been doing this for 23 years, when are you going to get it right ?' I think that is disingenuous.

This is about the issues we face in Poinsett County.