Gaming amendment once more rejected in Arkansas

Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has again rejected a proposed state constitutional amendment to legalize casino gambling in the state.

In an opinion dated Tuesday, she rejected the proposal by Barry Emigh of Hot Springs, writing that the proposed popular name and ballot title are “misleading and wholly deficient.”

Rutledge also wrote that the ballot title doesn’t “adequately describe the extensive changes” that would be made to current state law and that the proposal fails to explain who would be members of a committee that would be issued gambling licenses or how the committee would be created.

This is at least the fourth time Rutledge has rejected the proposal. Global picture has economists upbeat Third interest rate hike in year expected from Fed

In the United States and around the world, economic strength isn’t what it used to be. But everything is relative.

The Federal Reserve is set to raise short-term interest rates Wednesday for the third time in six months — a vote of confidence in the American economy and especially in the resilience of the

U.S. job market.

Across the Atlantic, the European Central Bank is edging toward ending extraordinary steps to speed growth in the 19 countries that use the euro, a sign that an agonizing era of stagnation may be nearing an end.

And international agencies have lately issued upbeat reports on the global picture after persistent weakness in the years since the Great Recession.

Yet neither the U.S. nor the world economy is likely to regain the robust health that prevailed before the recession struck a decade ago.