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Pizza Cafe West maintains winning formula
The menu hasn't changed, but the new West Little Rock digs are bringing new life to Pizza Cafe.We rarely meet a pizza we disagree with. Sure, we have our preferences, as most do, and pizza comes with...
View ArticleTrue blood
The Observer was motorvatin' through North Little Rock the other day with particularly weighty reporter issues whirling in our noggin when we spied a city worker with a leaf-blower, using the...
View ArticleDispatch from Nate Bell-land
I'm writing to tell you how much I enjoy reading the Arkansas Blog. Here in Nate Bell land (Mena), we have no state news coverage in our two newspapers nor on our radio stations. No one really knows...
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How the Arkansas legislature has changed your life
For better or for worse.Here's a rundown on some of the new laws enacted during the 100 days of the 89th General Assembly, which informally adjourned April 23. Formal adjournment is May 17.ABORTIONAct...
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Groups battling SWEPCO encroachment on Arkansas landmarks
An odd set of corporate, municipal and grassroots bedfellows has coalesced in Northwest Arkansas around opposition to a proposed Southwestern Electric Power Co. power-line project that critics say...
View ArticleIt's not just geography that matters in Arkansas GOP primary
In a blog post last week, I made the case that geography no longer creates a clear barrier to the Republican nomination for a candidate from outside of Northwest Arkansas like House Speaker Davy...
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Weighing the session
Does one massive achievement cancel out dozens of terrible ones? How to think about the 89th General Assembly? In one sense, it was hugely successful. No other legislation that emerged from the...
View ArticleIt was a good week for the Clintons
It was also a good week for a lawsuit, the beginning of the end of an era, a hog roast and an opt out. It was a bad week for the Sloan-Hendrix School District.It was a good week for ...THE CLINTONS....
View Article'42,''54 and since
The feel-good movie of the season, unless you are of a certain turn of mind, is "42," the story of Jackie Robinson, whose number is the only one retired by major-league baseball. by Ernest DumasThe...
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Groups battling SWEPCO encroachment on Arkansas landmarks
An odd set of corporate, municipal and grassroots bedfellows has coalesced in Northwest Arkansas around opposition to a proposed Southwestern Electric Power Co. power-line project that critics say...
View ArticleThe Sound of the Mountain and Laundry for the Apocalypse at Revolution
Also, Alvin Youngblood Hart at White Water Tavern.THURSDAY 5/9It's time once more for Live at Laman, this month featuring Michael Carenbauer and Friends, Laman Library, 7 p.m., free. Taste of the Rock...
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The terrible 10 of the 89th Arkansas General Assembly
They're the worst of the worst.Rep. Bob Ballinger, R-HindsvilleA strong candidate for this year's Constitutional Law Quizbowl Least Valuable Player, Ballinger lands a seat on the dunce stool for...
View ArticleSemi-tough
The 2013 legislature was protective of gun-carriers and red-light runners, but it came down hard on voters. The first two groups might kill a few people, (or a lot). The third might remove from office...
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The honorees
Bill and Hillary Clinton walk through the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport on Friday after a ceremony formally announcing the airport's name change. by Brian Chilson THE HONOREES: Bill and...
View ArticleThe gold still rules in the Arkansas legislature
I try to get excited about the 2014 constitutional amendment proposal forged by the Regnat Populist ethics reform group and the legislature. It's hard. by Max BrantleyI try to get excited about the...
View ArticleFootball Hogs in transition mode
There isn't any reason to read tea leaves with searing scrutiny when there's a minor mass exodus of football players after spring practice ends, right? by Beau WilcoxThere isn't any reason to read tea...
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Offbeat at Bentonville's 21c Hotel
New art-obsessed hotel opens with bike tricks and parkour, naturally. by Katherine WyrickPerhaps best known as the world headquarters of Walmart, Bentonville, in a delicious slice of incongruity, is...
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'Death of a Salesman' at the Rep
Robert Walden stars in the theater's first production of the Arthur Miller play. by Robert BellThe Arkansas Repertory Theatre's current show "Death of a Salesman"— its first production of Arthur...
View ArticleBehind the scenes of UAMS-St. Vincent merger talks
The unearthing of background discussions between UAMS and St. Vincent Health on combination of their clinical operations in Little Rock continues through Freedom of Information Act requests.For those...
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