Food Feedback Friday: pancreas and pulled pork
We hope you all had a delightful time celebrating the birth of our wonderful nation. We hope your day was filled with barbecue, hot dogs, burgers, fireworks, and pie—all the wonderful things necessary...
View ArticleMore Q&A on a pay raise for Mayor Mark Stodola
City Attorney Tom Carpentercontinues to answer questions from the city board related to the proposal to raise Mayor Mark Stodola's $160,000 annual pay by 12 percent so it'll match the pay given City...
View ArticlePulaski sheriff busy thanks to July 4 fireworks calls
Lt. Carl Minden of the Pulaski sheriff's office reports:Calls from the afternoon on July 3rd through 0700 this morning (July 5th):Fireworks calls — 49Grass Fires — 30Fire/Residential structures —...
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Wanted: Arkansas blackberries
I bought a quart of Arkansas blackberries at the Hillcrest Farmers Market last Saturday. Maybe the sweetest blackberries ever. I remembered fondly, though, some blackberries I'd bought on the roadside...
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Sunday To-Do: La Luz
LA LUZ9 p.m. White Water Tavern. $5.Seattle quartet La Luz has been playing together for only a year and change but the band has already been the subject of a gushing profile in The Stranger, released...
View ArticleThe long weekend line is open
Looked kind of quiet downtown today. Public offices were open, but a lot of people used some time to extend the weekend. Why not?* POLICE BEAT: The Little Rock police have been busy. They report: A...
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Metropolitan National Bank bought by Texas investor
Lots more to be known in the days ahead, but here's the news release from Metropolitan National Bank on the purchase of the Little Rock institution, which has been struggling to regain its footing in...
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Opnion: Republican judicial PAC shows 'dangerous mindset'
For the slow weekend, an opinion piece by David Stewart on the recent news that Arkansas Republicans, as revealed at a recent state GOP committee meeting, intend to establish a political action...
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Dumb and dumber: Conway teens hire prostitute, get robbed
I have to agree with one of the victims of this crime: It sounds like a movie plot. Thanks to Channel 4 for this tale of the perils of lining up paid sex on-line.All from Channel 4:An 18-year-old...
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Old times in South not forgotten: vote suppression jump-started by Supreme Court
When the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, Chief Justice John Robertssanctimoniously and dishonestly assured the country that the bad old days were behind us.Already, Doonesbury cartoon...
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Metropolitan Bank sale documents from bankruptcy filing
I passed along last night the news release on the sale of Metropolitan National Bank of Little Rock to a Texas private equity fund for $16 million and a promise of recapitalization. The release...
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Andrea Lea's foggy memory: Republican cronyism at the state Capitol
That new Republican broom turns out to be just another version of the corrupt cronyism broom that the Republicans used to say was the sole province of the Democratic Party.Good story today in the...
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Monday To-Do: Chad Griffin
CHAD GRIFFINNoon. Clinton School of Public Service. Free.It's no secret that we here at the Timesare big fans of Arkansas native and political wunderkind Chad Griffin, who now heads the Human Rights...
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The Saturday open line
I'm busy cooking, so I'll close out early with an open line. Photo, according to the message, was taken by a passenger who was on the Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 that crash-landed at the San Francisco...
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About that home for pregnant teens ....
A mass group home for pregnant teens? Never made much sense in this day and time.Now, thanks to fine reporting by Claudia Lauer and Chad Day in today's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette we know the idea makes...
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Beat the Heat: Nom Noms in Hot Springs
Summertime in Arkansas has always meant trips to the lake for me, and growing up in the Southwest corner of the state, the four-lake powerhouse of DeGray, Ouachita, Catherine, and Hamilton were always...
View ArticleSunday evening open line
To quote the immortal — and perhaps apocryphal — Arkansas Gazette sportswriter sent to New Orleans for a non-Arkansas Sugar Bowl. He apparently found more excitement on Bourbon Street than on the...
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A 2nd proposed amendment for marriage equality in Arkansas
We reported recently on the submission of a proposed constitutional amendment to repeal Amendment 83, which denies marriage equality in Arkansas by preventing people of the same sex from marrying or...
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Blogger outlines chance for contested Democratic primary for attorney general
Jeff Woodmansee, a faculty member at the UALR Bowen School of Law and an ardent politico with a blog, the Woodmansee Project, rounds up some election scuttlebutt on the Democratic side of the ledger...
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ExxonMobil exec talks about pipeline break, says oil still being found
Three months after the ExxonMobil Pegasus pipeline break that gushed Canadian tar sands on a Mayflower subdivision, an executive of the pipeline operator, Karen Tyrone, has given an extensive interview...
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