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George Washington is everywhere
If you are interested in the father of our country, you're in luck: Three Arkansas museums are exhibiting various effects of George Washington, including Bibles, documents and portraits. For folks in...
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Geo. Wash postscript: Reception tonight
Curt Viebranz, president of Mount Vernon, and author Joseph Ellis will be special guests tonight at a reception for the Clinton Presidential Center's exhibition"A Tribute to George Washington" (see...
View ArticleAgain a Republican disses the 1st Amendment
I've complained before and undoubtedly will again about Republican disrespect for the 1st Amendment. The 2nd? That's another matter.You know what I mean. Expressing opposition to Republican viewpoints...
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Lyon College to add football in 2015
Funny. I was just trying to talk my wife this morning into planning a Hendrix College Warrior tailgate this fall for the school's inaugural football season.Now comes word that Lyon College in...
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Coming to Thea: Eric Forstmann
Work by New York realist painter Eric Forstmann, who has created a painting, "Six @ 3 p.m.," for the Thea Foundation, will be on exhibit from Aug. 5-9 at Thea, 401 Main St. in Argenta. Thea will sell...
View ArticleThe quality schools open line
It's Friday night and the line is open early because I have places to go. Final notes:* SCHOOLS: BETTER THAN YOU THOUGHT: The Democrat-Gazette had some of this news this morning, but you had to get...
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The Black Helicopters Over the White River Edition
Three big U.S. Supreme Court cases and what they mean for Arkansas, controversy over Blueways, the immigration debate in Congress and the trial of former LRPD officer Josh Hastings — all covered on...
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Will Phillips to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance thanks to DOMA ruling
Remember Will Phillips? He's the West Fork fifth grader who got in a spot of trouble— but held his ground — for refusing to join Pledge of Allegiance exercises, as is his constitutional right.Liberty...
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Lawyer offers free help to gay couple seeking Arkansas marriage license
A ripple passed yesterday through the small but vibrant and growing community that supports marriage equality in Arkansas.Jack Wagoner, a Little Rock lawyer, posted this comment on the Facebook page of...
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Cakes with a kick at Katie Connally Confections
"Candy is dandy," poet Ogden Nash famously observed, "but liquor is quicker." But as Karen Connally sets up the Hillcrest Farmers Market table that will hold the baked goods bearing her grandmother...
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First Cherokee Purple and the perfect poached egg
Now, a lot of folks don't believe me when I tell them that the best poached egg in Little Rock comes from the back of a food truck, but I swear to you all it's the truth. The truck in question is...
View ArticleSleepy Saturday open line
News? Not much. The Pulaski sheriff's office recovered a male body from an Arkansas River backwater not far from the Burns Park boat ramp, but little else is known at this moment.Happier news is that...
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Arkansas bounty made a fine dinner last night
I should report on the Arkansas Times'first farm-to-table dinner last night at the Scott Plantation Settlement: Good eating.Shown above is an opening course: Heirloom tomatoes from organic...
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Saline County sheriff arrested on public intoxication charge
The Saline Courier was on the job late last night with a report of the arrest of Saline County Sheriff Bruce Pennington after a disagreement with Benton police attempting to prevent him from driving...
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Hillary Clinton: Republicans play the "Golden Girls" card
Jonathan Martin writes in the New York Times today about the latest Republican attack strategy against Hillary Rodham Clinton's potential presidential candidacy:In summary: She's a washed-up old...
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Look who's leading Republican push to elect their kind of state court judges?
I've written repeatedly about efforts overt and covert to establish a Republican judiciary in Arkansas along with the Republican-majority legislature.It's ironic or hypocritical or something only...
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Arkansas native Ron Binz nominated to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
A friend notes an Arkansas angle in President Obama's nomination this week of Ron Binz, former chairman of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission, to the important Federal Energy Regulatory...
View ArticlePaula Deen makes Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s Dana D. Kelley’s heart swoon
“Besides, the chances are good that most sexagenarians from the South would have used the n-word a few times because it was part of common language a half-century ago. - Dana D. Kelley, Arkansas...
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Open line: John Burris gets a job — working for Tom Cotton
State Rep. John Burris, the Republican House leader of the legislation that implemented Obamacare in Arkansas, has a paying job in addition to his paying job as state legislator.He acknowledges in an...
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New work reported in Mayflower oil spill area
A Facebook page dedicated to the spill of Canadian tar sands oil from the ExxonMobil pipeline break in Mayflower has posted several photos taken Saturday of new excavation work in the Northwood...
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