A Look Back at the Start of the 82nd General Assembly in 1999

KUAF | By Dan Bennett

Published January 12, 2021 at 1:09 PM CST

In this story from the archives, we travel back to the week in 1999, when the General Assembly opened for its Regular Session and Mike Huckabee was inaugurated as the governor of Arkansas. At the time, Ozarks at Large's Dan Bennett was in Little Rock covering the 82nd General Assembly.

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