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McDaniel presses Exxon on oil spill info
Attorney General Dustin McDaniel is pressing Exxon Mobil for information on the devastating oil spill in Mayflower. From a release:Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has demanded that Exxon Mobil produce...
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Friday and Saturday To-Do: 'Doubt: A Parable'
'DOUBT: A PARABLE'7:30 p.m. The Weekend Theater. $12-$16.John Patrick Shanley's "Doubt: A Parable," won some pretty hefty awards, namely the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play....
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Friday-Sunday To-Do: Little Rock Startup Weekend
LITTLE ROCK STARTUP WEEKENDVarious times. Clinton School of Public Service. $50-$60.Calling all designers, programmers, creative types, idea men/women. Little Rock Startup Weekend is the latest event...
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Friday: Ballet Arkansas, Eggshibition 2013 and more
Ballet Arkansas's "Spring into Motion" comes to the Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m., $30-$35. The Jumbo Gumbo Cookoff is an amateur gumbo competition,...
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Villareal's "Buckyball" on loan to Crystal Bridges
On May 2, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will install its first temporary sculpture, Leo Villareal's"Buckyball," on loan from the Madison Square Park Conservancy, Gering and Lopez Gallery and...
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Arkansas: Red state on female mortality
The Washington Post's Wonkblog posted the map above illustrating by-county changes in female mortality rates. Red is bad. It means the rate is rising. Education and poverty cited as factors. (Sex...
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Legislature today: Hendren gets heated over anti-zoning measure
*LET'S TAKE THIS OUTSIDE: We're long passed the days of knife fights on the state House floor. Now legislators take to Twitter when they wish to inflict bodily harm on those who disagree with them....
View ArticleYou need to understand how government works before you criticize it - you’ll...
There is a great line in the Star Trek film, The Wrath of Khan, when James T. Kirk explains to a junior officer that, “You have to understand why things work on a starship.” I’m not too much of a snob...
View ArticleFort Smith to get 500-employee billing center
Health Management Associates, a hospital chain that includes two medical centers in Fort Smith, is opening a services center in a former Fort Smith mall (billing, collections, insurance) that will...
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Palsa announces the end of The Food Truck
This post was originally going to be all about the next SoMa Second Thursday Food Truck event on April 11, and there's certainly a lot of fun things going on there at the Bernice Garden. Returning...
View ArticleUPDATE: UAMS/St. Vincent merger details given to UA Board
The proposed combination of the University of Arkansas clinical operations at UAMS with St. Vincent Health was not on the agenda for today's University of Arkansas Board of Trustees meeting today in...
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The Thursday night line
Over to you. Closing out (and, related to the photo above, here's information about the state's posting of air quality monitoring in Mayflower):* ROUND ONE IN THE MEDICAID FIGHT: The Senate meets at 8...
View ArticleFetuses, si! Live babies, not so much
A memo went around to staff at Arkansas Children's Hospital today about the impending doom of Republican legislators' passion to cut Medicaid.Quick editorial note before the memo: This legislature will...
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UPDATE: Bill would abolish Capitol Zoning District Commission
This is an outrage and if it happens be sure to put blame on House Speaker Davy Carter's chief of staff Gabe Holmstrom along with reactionary Republican Rep. Nate Bell of Mena.Bell, whether...
View ArticleAM report: Tort reform; who's a law officer
Morning notes from all over:* TORT REFORM: I've told you the business lobby has been striving mightily to get a constitutional amendment on the ballot to strip the Arkansas Supreme Court of rule-making...
View ArticleMore news: Pryor and the NRA
Still more stuff to roundup this morning;* LAKE CONWAY: POLLUTED OR NOT: Exxon Mobil, given broad control over just about everything related to the major pipeline oil spill in Mayflower, has put out...
View ArticleThe fight to protect the referendum in Arkansas
I noted recently objections to the effort by Arkansas's duopoly casinos at Southland and Oaklawn, in league with their friend Attorney General Dustin McDaniel, to make the referendum process...
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School shootings: A look back at Arkansas
The current debate about school security and guns prompted by the Sandy Hook slaughter has occasioned a 15-year anniversary article about the shootings at the Westside school in Arkansas. It's by David...
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Saturday To-Do: Designers Choice Preview
DESIGNERS CHOICE FASHION PREVIEW6:30 p.m. Metroplex. $35-$55.Now in its sixth year, the Designers Choice Fashion Preview has become what is surely the biggest annual fashion event in the state. This...
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Saturday To-Do: Amp Out Alz 2
AMP OUT ALZ 28 p.m. Revolution. $25 adv., $30 day of.The second annual Amp Out Alz fundraiser is billed as "A Rock & Roll Event," with live music from Geezer, including covers of favorites by The...
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