Bill Clinton sends first tweet on Colbert
The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video ArchiveThe clip above comes from Bill Clinton's appearance on the Colbert Report.This link takes you to...
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LR Airport celebrates completion of lobby work
Officials of the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport (below are airport director Ron Mathieu and Airport Commission members Kay Arnold, Jim Dailey and Virgil Miller) celebrated the nearing...
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UPDATE: House committee endorses Medicaid expansion bill
Republican Rep. John Burris is before the House Public Health Committee he chairs this morning to urge approval of the Medicaid expansion legislation. Moving now is vital to avoid losing participation...
View ArticleLegislature today: DREAM again denied for immigrant children
Sen. Joyce Elliott's bill to allow colleges to charge in-state tuition to undocumented immigrant students who've graduated from Arkansas high schools and had sufficient residency here failed in a...
View ArticleU.S. Senate strikes deal on gun regulation
The New York Times reports that a deal has been struck in the Senate to produce enough votes to avoid a filibuster and approve expansion of gun background checks to gun shows and on-line sales, with...
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A World of Madonnabots: A fate worse than death?
I have figured out the perfect job for myself. Part life coach, part nag, it would be my role to tell folks in public life when they have left this plane of existence behind and slipped into that dank...
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The Pegasus pipeline
Completed in 1948 to deliver light, conventional crude oil from Nederland, Texas, to the Patoka Oil Terminal Hub in Patoka, Ill., ExxonMobil's Pegasus Pipeline is an 858-mile, 20-inch steel pipeline...
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Tubing in tar sands oil with Tim Griffin
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View ArticleThe human impact of health care expansion
Despite its natural and architectural beauty and relatively high property tax values, Eureka Springs is ground zero for the health care coverage crisis in Arkansas. by Jay BarthIn recent years, my...
View ArticleGriffin touts Exxon to oiled constituency
Put yourself in the shoes of Rev. Pat Robertson or one of the other clerics who insist that disasters, whether natural or manmade, are God's way of showing His wrath over the stupid things people are...
View ArticleIt was a good week for Big River Steel
It was also a good week for the first of many lawsuits and expansion. It was a bad week for tax justice and workers between jobs.It was a good week for...BIG RIVER STEEL. The House overwhelmingly...
View ArticleWhat leaked in Mayflower?
Not tar oil, Exxon says. by David Koon and Leslie Newell PeacockSome Wabasca heavy crude is produced from the Wabiskaw oil sands formation in northeastern Alberta, Canada and contains dense bitumen —...
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Stone's Throw Brewing ready to rock craft beer
The old building at the corner of Ninth and Rock streets is more construction site than brewery right now, and the men behind Stone's Throw Brewing are more concerned with paint and drywall than they...
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Lulav goes Italian
Excellent fare, but separate lunch menu needed.Lulav has been, is and — as long as it survives — will always be an enigma. It opened in 2004 as a Kosher restaurant that was closed for Shabbat from...
View ArticleGreed rules
The Arkansas legislature earns its low regard daily, last Friday with committee approval of a constitutional amendment labeled "ethics reform." by Max BrantleyThe Arkansas legislature earns its low...
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Will Mayflower ever be the same after the Exxon spill?
It's all fun and games until the world's richest corporation spills 200,000 gallons of goop in your backyard. by David Koon and Leslie Newell PeacockTwo weeks ago, it might have been hard to imagine...
View ArticleOdds and ends in Hog land
Nobody is likely to accuse Bret Bielema of being a renaissance man, and maybe that sounds like derision, but it's far from it. Pearls can and does appreciate the modern bravado that he employs, though...
View ArticleStephanie Smittle fundraiser at The Jointe
Also, The Scimitar Shrine Circus.THURSDAY 4/11The Joint hosts a fundraiser to help fund singer Stephanie Smittle's upcoming visit to Italy to sing opera in the Oberlin in Italy Program. There'll be...
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