State Rep. Warwick Sabin’s announcement that he’s planning a race for Little Rock mayor in 2018 has now drawn two Democratic candidates to succeed him in the district, which stretches from downtown to Reservoir Road through HIllcrest.

Tippi McCullough, a teacher and leader of Stonewall Democrats, had told me Friday that she plans to make the race. Today, Little Rock lawyer Ross Noland, who is also director of the Buffalo River Foundation, said he’d be a Democratic candidate. The primary is in May 2018.

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