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Tech Park Plus: A midtown development proposal for War Memorial Park
Not long after UALR Chancellor Joel Anderson announced his idea for a location for the Little Rock Technology Park, two more ideas for a location surfaced — one envisioning development far beyond just...
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NOW Mark Martin thinks he needs a lawyer
This is rich. Secretary of State Mark Martin, who a judge said yesterday has illegally hired outside counsel to do legal work for the office that the law says should be done by the attorney general, is...
View ArticleThe million dollar open line
The line is open. A final happy note:* DOUBLE JACKPOT: The Arkansas Lottery Commission notes that a single gambler, Billy Bealer of Pine Bluff, had bought two big winning tickets in the last two weeks...
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New gallery in Fayetteville
Arkansas artists Kat Wilson and Sarah Leflar announced today they will open a new gallery in Fayetteville called the Bottle Rocket Gallery, at 1495 Finger Road. The gallery will open Sept. 20 in a...
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Life after football: the sad story of former Hog Mark Pierce
As the faithful count days to football season, it might not be the perfect time to recall the tough times that some encounter after gridiron glory. Or maybe it is.Recommended: Another good story from...
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Eric Holder: Poor timing on praise of Arkansas for prison reform
Benji Hardy at the Arkansas Legislative Digest focuses on something you might have overlooked:Attorney General Eric Holder singled out Arkansas for praise in speech about changing federal drug...
View ArticleGuilty plea in Alamo-related sexual abuse case
U.S. Attorney Conner Eldridge has announced a guilty plea by a member of Tony Alamo Christian Ministries for transporting his 13-year-old stepdaughter from Oklahoma to Fort Smith to have sex with her...
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UPDATE: Arkansas Obamacare repeal effort falls short
The notice above (also here) announced the failure of the petition drive to repeal Arkansas's version of Obamacare. I haven't talked yet with organizer Glenn Gallas, but the secretary of state's office...
View ArticleIn Praise of Newt Gingrich open line
The line is open. Final words:* NEWT GINGRICH GETS IT RIGHT: How about this?Former House Speaker and presidential candidate Newt Gingrich reprimanded his fellow Republicans in unusually harsh terms...
View ArticleUALR's Joel Anderson suggests Tech Park Board visit Fayetteville
The board of the Little Rock Technology Park Authority is meeting today.One item is a deadline for site selection for the train wreck of a $22 million city taxpayer-funded venture that doesn't yet know...
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Griffin releases three more data-dense Pegasus pipeline reports
Rep. Tim Griffin continued his unlikely run as a champion of public pipeline scrutiny by releasing key documents about ExxonMobil’s faulty Pegasus pipeline.The Republican’s website today posted three...
View ArticleCleanliness important
"Mariah White says it takes about an hour of milking between the two cows to produce their combined 10 to 11 gallons a day. That doesn't include the time they spend cleaning the cows' utters and...
View ArticleWhale Fire plays The Joint
Plus, Mulehead does White Water Tavern.THURSDAY 8/15Little Rock's Whale Fire brings their melodic indie rock to The Joint, with a solo performance from Bryan Frazier starting things off, 9 p.m., $5....
View ArticleReturning
The Observer called UCA on a tip the other day and learned that Damien Echols of the West Memphis Three will be coming there on Nov. 11-12 to speak and to teach a mini-class with their crop of eager...
View ArticleWaltons attack Little Rock School District
The latest Walton fortune-funded attack on the Little Rock School District would create a neighborhood charter middle school in majority-white upscale West Little Rock. by Max BrantleyThe latest...
View ArticleIt was a good week for a race to the bottom
It was also a good week for owning Obamacare, Kali Hardig and special chickens. It was a bad week for Secretary of State Mark Martin and school choice.It was a good week for...A RACE TO THE BOTTOM.Lt....
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Johnny Cash Music Festival returns to ASU
Also, the Eureka Springs Blues Festival, Foul Play Cabaret and The Frontier Circus, Jimbo Mathus and the Tri-State Coalition, Joseph Israel at Stickyz and Young Joc at Discovery. by Robert...
View ArticleHow the war will end
It's appropriate that the Supreme Court's decisions in the marriage equality cases — the cases evaluating the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8 — came just days before...
View ArticleInfamous
"News just broke that Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan snuck off to the Koch brothers' infamous secret gathering of right-wing millionaires.""News just broke that Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan snuck off to the...
View ArticlePreview of Razorbacks in SEC play
Last week, we suggested in this space that Arkansas would be buoyed by raw exuberance of a new regime and the fortuitous structure of the schedule to bolt out to a 4-0 start in 2013. The second third...
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