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Caution urged at LaHarpe and Clinton Avenue
The Downtown Little Rock Partnership and the city of Little Rock continued its pedestrian safety campaign today with a media event at La Harpe Boulevard and President Clinton Avenue, site of the most...
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Out with the bad pipe
Nice picture from Josh Berry of Channel 4 on Twitter of work to remove the split section of ExxonMobil's pipeline from the Mayflower neighborhood were a major rupture loosed thousands of barrels of...
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UPDATE: The House defeats Medicaid expansion appropriation
I'm led to expect a test vote — maybe THE vote — will be held early in today's House session at 1:30 p.m. on the appropriation bill to pay for expanding Medicaid-financed health coverage in...
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Explosions at finish line of Boston Marathon
Unfolding now is news of two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon with multiple injuries. UPDATE: The reporting is now saying bombs are responsible and that other unexploded devices...
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Two from the Louvre at CBM
Two paintings from the collection of the Louvre Museum in Paris will be on exhibit at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art when the collaborative exhibition "American Encounters: Genre Painting and...
View ArticleUPDATE: Ethics amendment defeated
The line's open. Cleaning up:* AN ETHICS WRINKLE — AND THEN A DEFEAT: As legislators struggled with whether to put an ethics/legislative pay/term limits dilution amendment on the ballot, others were...
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Fearless forecast: Obamacare will advance in Arkansas
Not much to report this morning. The two dominant stories — the Arkansas Medicaid expansion debate and the Boston Marathon bombings — are fodder primarily for speculation at this point. * MEDICAID...
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The House approves Medicaid expansion, 77-23
The Arkansas House voted, 77-23, today to approve the appropriation bill, HB 1219, to pay for a federally financed expansion of Medicaid health insurance coverage under President Obama's health care...
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It's called CYA: Tim "Pipeline" Griffin backs pipeline relocation
I think this Twitter from Austin Kellerman at KARK just about says it all about Rep. Tiny Tim Griffin, the pipeliner's friend:But could we also persuade Tiny Tim to move the Keystone XL pipeline away...
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Terrific Thai at Chang's in Sherwood
Let’s set a few things straight: Chang’s (or more precisely, Chang Thai and Asian Cuisine) in Sherwood is in no way related to P.F. Secondly, as sad as this fact may be, there is a real shortage of...
View ArticleNow come the tax cuts and handouts
With House approval of the Medicaid expansion, other pieces are beginning to fall in place.The House has passed Republican Rep. Charlie Collins'income tax cut bill, a measure that will provide the...
View ArticleThe Great Billy's Bar & Grill Fight: Should anyone - let alone an off-duty...
“If they can’t protect me from their own police who’s going to? I mean I’m worried if I’m going to get home to see my three children and then I find out the person who pulled the gun on me was a person...
View ArticleSuit filed to challenge 12-week abortion ban
The Arkansas affiliate of the ACLU, as promised, is suing to challenge Arkansas'new legal ban on most abortions beginning at the 12th week of pregnancy. It will discuss the lawsuit at a 1 p.m. news...
View ArticleCentral High assistant principal charged with harassment
The Little Rock police announced today that Thomas Randall McDonald, 55, an assistant principal at Central High School, had been named in five misdemeanor harassment charges involving students at the...
View ArticleExxon proposes compensation to Mayflower spill victims
The Log Cabin Democrat has the rundown on a letter ExxonMobil has sent residents of the Mayflower subdivision where a pipeline ruptured and spilled thousands of barrels of heavy Canadian crude from...
View ArticleLR Film Festival announces "Made in Arkansas" lineup
Yesterday, the Little Rock Film Festival announced the slate of 19 "Made in Arkansas" films that will screen at the 2013 LRFF. Three of the films are feature-length (including director Juli Jackson's...
View ArticleHouse approves bill with new petition restrictions
The House today approved SB 821 to place additional burdens on petition campaigns for ballot initiatives. The vote was 78-9.The bill was pushed by the two casinos in Arkansas and big business generally...
View ArticleUPDATE: Arrest 'imminent' in Boston bombings; or maybe not
Arrest said to be imminent in Boston bombings, apparently helped by analysis of video. UPDATE: But no arrests have been made and much confusion in all the reporting. Talking Points Memo assembled the...
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Photo essay: A hog farm for the Buffalo River watershed
Don Nelms, a former Fayetteville auto dealer, political candidate, environmentalist and photographer, has taken up a roost near Jasper overlooking the Buffalo River. He circulates daily photographs of...
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Senate sends healthcare expansion enabling legislation to committee for...
UPDATE 25: Roby Brock has more speculation on what the amendment might be. UPDATE 24: Hester, Westerman, and others are lingering in Public Health, presumably to give one last set of pleas (dirty...
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