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From my family to yours, I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I pray that as you gather with family and friends to celebrate the birth of Christ, you can reflect on the past year and look ahead to all the things to come in the new year. I am optimistic and hopeful about the future and am honored to continue to represent the First District of Arkansas.

Earlier this month, many of us gathered in the Old Supreme Court Chamber at our Capitol to celebrate Christmas with some of the children currently in our state’s foster care system. This is an annual event that distributes thousands of gifts and brings countless smiles.

LITTLE ROCK – The legislature’s list of accomplishments in 2022 is lengthy and significant. During a special session in the summer, legislators reduced income taxes for about 1.6 million Arkansas taxpayers by moving up the effective date of the tax cuts adopted last year.

WASHINGTON, DC – The bipartisan Congressional Steel Caucus today announced that Rep. Crawford (AR-01) and Rep.

LITTLE ROCK — The Governor’s Food Desert Working Group released its report and recommendations Friday morning, at Little Rock Union Station, to elected officials, community leaders, potential funders, and interested citizens.

HUMPHREY — Friday, December 16 at 11:15 a.m. CST, USDA Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment Homer Wilkes will join the University of Arkansas at Monticello and their partners for a visit to Five Oaks Ag Education and Research Center in Humphrey.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator John Boozman (RAR), a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, applauded passage of legislation to improve the country’s water resources, which included provisions he championed to strengthen Arkansas water and wastewater projects.

Average gasoline prices in Arkansas have fallen 10.1 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $2.65/g today, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 1,826 stations in Arkansas. Prices in Arkansas are 44.9 cents per gallon lower than a month ago and stand 25.1 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The national average price of diesel has fallen 14.1 cents in the last week and stands at $4.77 per gallon.