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LR cop relieved of duty over Fayetteville bar incident
Update on the Billy's Bar brouhaha in Fayetteville (video above) that I mentioned again this morning. One of those involved WAS a Little Rock police officer. Statement from Sgt. Cassandra Davis of...
View ArticleOne dead, two wounded in Little Rock shootings
LRPD reports this morning:* FATAL SHOOTING: Darrell Eugene Henson was found shot to death in the 15000 block of West Baseline Road about 4 a.m. today. No motive or suspect info at the moment.* TWO...
View ArticleHouse committee stymies unemployment benefit cut
The House Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee fell short on a roll call vote today of reducing unemployment benefits.The bill by Sen. Bart Hester would have sliced maximum possible benefits from...
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Caution urged at LaHarpe and Clinton Avenue
The Downtown Little Rock Partnership and the city of Little Rock continued its pedestrian safety campaign today with a media event at La Harpe Boulevard and President Clinton Avenue, site of the most...
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Out with the bad pipe
Nice picture from Josh Berry of Channel 4 on Twitter of work to remove the split section of ExxonMobil's pipeline from the Mayflower neighborhood were a major rupture loosed thousands of barrels of...
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UPDATE: The House defeats Medicaid expansion appropriation
I'm led to expect a test vote — maybe THE vote — will be held early in today's House session at 1:30 p.m. on the appropriation bill to pay for expanding Medicaid-financed health coverage in...
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Explosions at finish line of Boston Marathon
Unfolding now is news of two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon with multiple injuries. UPDATE: The reporting is now saying bombs are responsible and that other unexploded devices...
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Two from the Louvre at CBM
Two paintings from the collection of the Louvre Museum in Paris will be on exhibit at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art when the collaborative exhibition "American Encounters: Genre Painting and...
View ArticleUPDATE: Ethics amendment defeated
The line's open. Cleaning up:* AN ETHICS WRINKLE — AND THEN A DEFEAT: As legislators struggled with whether to put an ethics/legislative pay/term limits dilution amendment on the ballot, others were...
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Fearless forecast: Obamacare will advance in Arkansas
Not much to report this morning. The two dominant stories — the Arkansas Medicaid expansion debate and the Boston Marathon bombings — are fodder primarily for speculation at this point. * MEDICAID...
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The House approves Medicaid expansion, 77-23
The Arkansas House voted, 77-23, today to approve the appropriation bill, HB 1219, to pay for a federally financed expansion of Medicaid health insurance coverage under President Obama's health care...
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It's called CYA: Tim "Pipeline" Griffin backs pipeline relocation
I think this Twitter from Austin Kellerman at KARK just about says it all about Rep. Tiny Tim Griffin, the pipeliner's friend:But could we also persuade Tiny Tim to move the Keystone XL pipeline away...
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Terrific Thai at Chang's in Sherwood
Let’s set a few things straight: Chang’s (or more precisely, Chang Thai and Asian Cuisine) in Sherwood is in no way related to P.F. Secondly, as sad as this fact may be, there is a real shortage of...
View ArticleNow come the tax cuts and handouts
With House approval of the Medicaid expansion, other pieces are beginning to fall in place.The House has passed Republican Rep. Charlie Collins'income tax cut bill, a measure that will provide the...
View ArticleThe Great Billy's Bar & Grill Fight: Should anyone - let alone an off-duty...
“If they can’t protect me from their own police who’s going to? I mean I’m worried if I’m going to get home to see my three children and then I find out the person who pulled the gun on me was a person...
View ArticleACLU to file suit today on abortion ban: Update
The Arkansas affiliate of the ACLU, as promised, is suing to challenge Arkansas'new legal ban on most abortions beginning at the 12th week of pregnancy. It will discuss the lawsuit at a 1 p.m. news...
View ArticleCentral High assistant principal charged with harassment
The Little Rock police announced today that Thomas Randall McDonald, 55, an assistant principal at Central High School, had been named in five misdemeanor harassment charges involving students at the...
View ArticleReally want to get “real” about what goes on in the bathroom? Put some men in...
Offhand, I suppose you can’t get more real than what happens in the bathroom, and yet a prominent toilet paper manufacturer is urging us (or rather, a series of beautiful women in pristine settings) is...
View ArticleHouse approves bill with new petition restrictions
The House today approved SB 821 to place additional burdens on petition campaigns for ballot initiatives. The vote was 78-9.The bill was pushed by the two casinos in Arkansas and big business generally...
View ArticleUPDATE: Arrest 'imminent' in Boston bombings
Arrest said to be imminent in Boston bombings, apparently helped by analysis of video.These are unsettling times. Also today, CNN reports:A letter to President Obama that was intercepted at an off-site...
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