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The state desk: the 2018 amendment, the roads it paid for, the jobs it promised

This is the state desk, and it holds two different kinds of page. The older kind is the archive of the 2018 casino-amendment campaign that this domain used to be: the amendment text as it was filed, the three promises the campaign printed, the list of liquor stores, libraries and farmers’ markets where the petition was signed, and the page that held the campaign videos. Those pages are kept at their original addresses, with their original wording, and are marked as archive wherever they appear.

The newer kind is reference material about gambling money as it actually reaches Arkansas: what is legal to play here and what is not, what an operator licensed elsewhere can and cannot offer a resident, and which authority answers for which part of it. The amendment the archive argued for named four licences and the counties that would hold them — Crittenden to Southland Racing Corporation, Garland to Oaklawn Jockey Club, plus Pope and Jefferson — and set the Arkansas Racing Commission over them. Those names are where the state desk starts.

  1. 01ArkansasCounty Approval for a Casino Licence

    Under Amendment 100 to the Arkansas Constitution, the Arkansas Racing Commission cannot award a casino licence in Pope County or Jefferson County without an explicit, contemporaneous local…

  2. 02ArkansasAmendment 100, Plainly

    Amendment 100 to the Arkansas Constitution established a rigid legal framework authorizing exactly four casino licences across four designated counties, placing all commercial gambling…

  3. 032018 archiveArkansasAmendment Language

    An amendment to the Arkansas Constitution to require that the Arkansas Racing Commission issue licenses for casino gaming to be conducted at four casinos in Arkansas,

  4. 042018 archiveArkansasWhere to Sign

    To put an amendment on the Arkansas ballot a committee has to collect signatures in person, which means it has to tell people where its clipboards will be.

  5. 052018 archiveArkansasBetter Roads

    Provides additional revenue to fund improvements to our roads “Provides additional revenue to fund improvements to our roads”, dated 19 March 2015, is the campaign’s infrastructure argument in one line. It names no rate, no fund and no road.

  6. 062018 archiveArkansasLower Taxes

    Generates revenue to fund income tax cuts “Generates revenue to fund income tax cuts”, dated 19 March 2015, is the third of the campaign’s three promises.

  7. 072018 archiveArkansasMore Jobs

    Creates new employment opportunities for Arkansans “Creates new employment opportunities for Arkansans” is the whole of the campaign’s jobs argument as this page states it, dated 19 March 2015. No figure, no sector, no timetable: a claim of direction rather than of size.

  8. 082018 archiveArkansasMedia

    This was the campaign’s media page: the address where its videos and press material were embedded. The embeds pointed at third-party players, and when the snapshot of this site was taken there was no video left on the page and no text either — an empty frame where a hosted player used to be.

The ledger

What this site actually consists of, counted from its own database rather than described. The numbers move when the site changes; they are recounted on every build.

  • 118addresses on the site, all answering 200
  • 6pages kept from the 2018 campaign
  • 11pages in 8 other languages
  • 137 433words of text in the archive
  • 425outbound links kept exactly as published

Counted from the site’s own page table on . Paid placements are left exactly as they were published and are marked in the page markup; see the editorial policy.

No byline, on purpose. Material here is signed by the desk and not by an invented person: if you see a name on a page, it belongs to someone quoted or to the author of a document, never to a persona we made up to look like a staff of ten.

Each number has an owner. Revenue lines, tax shares, licence numbers and dates are copied from the filing, report or operator page that holds them, and the sentence using a figure says where it came from. Where the source has no figure, this site leaves the sentence out instead of estimating one.

Mistakes get fixed in place. Point one out at [email protected]: the wrong line is rewritten on the page you read it on, with the old wording quoted underneath, so the change is visible rather than quietly swallowed.