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Will Republicans budge on Medicaid expansion?
Are Republicans giving more consideration to Medicaid expansion? Maybe, though there’s not much juice in today’s article on the topic from the AP, despite its headline. If you squint really hard, you...
View ArticleHogs and Horns Open Line
HOGS HIRE: Arkansas announced today that they've hired Tennessee offensive line coach Sam Pittman, who will fill the same role for the Razorbacks. BOOT EM HORNS: Bill Clinton sporting some ridiculous...
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Jason Baldwin, Mara Leveritt talk cameras in court at Clinton Center
Full house tonight at the Clinton School for a panel discussion featuring "Devil's Knot" author Mara Leveritt and the West Memphis Three's Jason Baldwin, sponsored by the Arkansas Times. On the agenda:...
View ArticleTreasurer Shoffner says she relied on brokers
Treasurer Martha Shoffner is having her day with the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee today on her office's bond investment practices, particularly a concentration of business with one Russellville...
View ArticleUPDATE: 26 reported dead in Connecticut elementary shooting
Today's horror: Gunman opens fire in Connecticut elementary school. Suspect reportedly killed by police.UPDATE: Wire report quoting anonymous source now puts death toll at 27, including 18 children....
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The real reason Ark. Republicans oppose state-run exchange?
Today’s the big day for states to decide whether they want to run their own health-insurance exchange or have the federal government do it. Arkansas opted earlier this week for a partnership.It looks...
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LRPD has new skylifts
Couldn't help but notice the new Little Rock Police Department skylift parked in front of the Statehouse Convention Center today. We're in the process of getting a bit more info on it from the...
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Sunday: Wynonna's Rockin' Christmas at Walton Arts Center
Up in Fayetteville, the Walton Arts Center presents Wynonna's Rockin' Christmas, a Christmas show featuring none other than Wynonna Judd, 7 p.m., $50-$80.[ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Boswell-Mourot glitzes on Saturday
Boswell-Mourot Fine Art, 5815 Kavanaugh Blvd., opens its "Holiday Show" Saturday night with a reception from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. There, you'll get to see new works by glitter king Jon Etienne Mourot, who...
View ArticleCheck out this video of Greg Spradlin and the Band of Imperials
Nice behind the scenes footage of our cover subject this week recording with David Hidalgo and Pete Thomas, of Los Lobos and Elvis Costello and all his backing bands, respectively. Thomas gives an...
View ArticleSchools to reap benefits of court ruling on cable TV tax
A tipster alerts me to an important ruling yesterday by the Arkansas Supreme Court. That decision upheld a Pulaski Circuit Court ruling that the Tax Division of the Arkansas Public Service Commission...
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The Max Is Back Edition
The Connecticut school shooting, the fiscal cliff, House Speaker Davy Carter, the latest amendments to the Lake Maumelle watershed land-use ordinance, football comings and goings, Tim Griffin on Ways...
View ArticleThe Friday night line
Well. Back at it. And I'll conclude with an open line for the night owls. Final words:* VOTE SUPPRESSION AND INTIMIDATION: As expected and promised, Republican Rep. Bryan King is ready to capitalize on...
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Morning comments: School shooting and the UA
SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS: More than three pages of coverage and commentary in the New York Times of the Connecticut school shootings and this reader is still left curiously empty. There is in all of...
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Filing challenges retirement law on judges
Partne Daugherty, the Jacksonville woman who's made headlines this year for some free-lance investigating and legal cases of her own related to heavy-handed police tactics (Surgeon General Joe...
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Mara Leveritt wins a victory for the public
Speaking of citizen lawyering:Mara Leveritt, senior contributor and spiritual mother of the Arkansas Times, has struck another blow for the public interest.She sends word of settlement of her federal...
View ArticleOfficers kill Phillips County man who allegedly hit trooper
Just in from the State Police:Special Agents of the Arkansas State Police Criminal Investigation Division are conducting an investigation of a law enforcement officer involved shooting in Phillips...
View ArticleLet’s not be conned into the “It’s too soon” to talk about gun issues line we...
Yesterday morning, on my way downtown, I passed the Walton Arts Center, where lines of yellow school, buses were dropping off hordes of excited children, on yet another field trip. I mentally shook my...
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The Saturday night line: Hucked
Not much to report in opening the line except to note huge Internet attention, most of it critical, of Mike Huckabee for blaming the slaughter of school children on a lack of prayer and religious...
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Odds and ends on the political scene
Random notes from the morning mail:* INTERNATIONAL GATHERING IN LITTLE ROCK: A big deal set in Little Rock next week, though it's not open to the public. The Club de Madrid annual conference will be...
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