The wintry morn report
A quick scan of the morning news:* NO GIFT WRAPPING OF TREE DEBRIS NECESSARY: Happily, the city of Little Rock has announced it will waive its customary tight rules for yard waste. Tree debris of any...
View ArticleThe Senate talks filibuster reform
Why do I think all the talk of U.S. Senate filibuster reform will end up as nothing more than talk?Ezra Klein notes an emerging bipartisan "reform" idea meant to blunt ideas for more meaningful...
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Chelsea Clinton reports on Mountain View music
Chelsea Clinton has produced another "Making a Difference"report for NBC News, this one on the effort to preserve musical tradition in Mountain View, Ark. by teaching it to kids.Trivial point: The...
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Note to Jason Rapert: Planned Parenthood vindicated
I noted the dog-and-pony show arranged recently at the Capitol by the demagoguic evangelist who represents Conway in the state Senate, Jason Rapert. He proposed to block federal money for programs...
View ArticleThe evening line
It is open. Hope you have power. Otherwise:* TRASH TALK:Little Rock City Manager Bruce Moore says trash crews WILL pick up excess trash outside the rolling bins for "the duration of this event." Alas,...
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NLR chief's support for new mayor pays off
North Little Rock Police Chief Danny Bradley's televised endorsement of mayoral candidate Joe Smith has gotten the most tangible sort of reward from the incoming mayor — a job. Presumably the almost...
View ArticleAre Republicans serious about Medicaid solution?
Columnist John Brummett writes from behind the Arkansas Democrat Gazette's paywall today about an emerging sentiment among some state legislators to delay a decision on accepting federal Medicaid...
View ArticleJoe Biden goes after assault rifles again
You want a politician who speaks bluntly, damn the consequences? You should at least appreciate Vice President Joe Biden, unafraid of the bullies of the NRA, from LaPierre to Asa! on down. He'll be...
View ArticleThe clamor to put military veterans in every school in America? Sure - until...
Well, we’ll get to property taxes in a moment.As someone who spent a few years toiling in the low end of security work, I have been reading the suggestions made of late that military veterans of the...
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Republican lawmakers doubt DHS projections, still don’t have specific...
Republican lawmakers still don't believe that harsh cuts to Level 3 nursing care are necessary and they're still resistant to expanding Medicaid, which projects to ease the fiscal crunch enough to save...
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The open line: On ice cream, fixtures and fixing blame
The line is open. I'm thinking of an early night after laboring like a lumberjack to clear my walk of the snow-felled yaupon holly. Damn, those things spawn a lot of foliage in the course of 23 years....
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The morning report: You pay for storm cleanup
The number without power has been dramatically reduced (to 11,400 by 8 a.m., Entergy says). But, gee, that's small consolation for the thousands still in the dark, nearing a full week after the power...
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More guns: A recipe for safety or more deaths?
Mother Jones posts an article sure to set the NRA gun nuts like Asa! abuzz:In the fierce debate that always follows the latest mass shooting, it's an argument you hear frequently from gun rights...
View ArticleLet there be drug testing — for all
Hah. I've already made this suggestion for Arkansas, where Republicans are slavering to emulate other Republican-controlled legislatures and institute drug-testing for welfare moochers.From Huffington...
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Chapter umpteen: Being a Republican means never having to say you're sorry
Thanks for a headsup on a Washington Post item about the Twittersphere blasting of all the Republicans who accused Hillary Clinton, now receiving treatment for a concussion-related blood clot, of...
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Lackluster Mexican fare at La Casa Real
Mexican food has been offered by thousands of restaurants worldwide, and perhaps more than any other cuisine is met with quite polar results. When Mexican food is done right, seasoned with with fresh...
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A tasty surprise at the Tavern Sports Grill
Is there any place more American than a sports bar right at the start of the college football bowl season? I'm not generally that big on the places, preferring to do my beer swilling and TV-yelling in...
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Dustin McDaniel throws a party in Hot Springs
A source who's been close in the past to Attorney General Dustin McDaniel messaged me this morning to say that he was moving in the direction of a news conference on his admission of an "inappropriate...
View ArticleLet's make a deal: An outline emerges to avoid 'cliff'
Ezra Klein is Twittering details of a congressional deal on taxes and spending (at least it's a deal on the Senate side; House Republicans such as Tiny Tim Griffin have yet to be heard from on a deal...
View ArticleThe Saul Alinsky Drinking Game
Saturday morning I read Mike Masterson’s column in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette when he wrote of the National Rifle Association:“ . . . being classically demonized a la the late Chicago agitator Saul...
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