UPDATE: Walmart backs state's new idea for covering health costs
Walmart and Gov. Mike Beebehave an announcement coming today on the state's effort to move Medicaid and other insurance to move away from fee-for-service reimbursement for health care. The idea is to...
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Morning report: Chicken, pot pie and bleep variety
Some morning moments:* WHY DIDN'T SKIP RUTHERFORD THINK OF THIS?An item in D magazine reports that the director of the George W. Bush Presidential Library being built in Dallas is using free chicken...
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East Poinsett schools end pre-game prayer after protest
The Jonesboro Sun, behind a solid pay wall sorry to say, reports that the East Poinsett School District in Lepanto has finally acknowledged, grudgingly, the concept of separation of church and state.It...
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Friday To-Do: Opening day at Oaklawn
OPENING DAY AT OAKLAWN1 p.m. Oaklawn Park. $2.With the new year upon us, it's time for my favorite Arkansas tradition, opening weekend at Oaklawn in Hot Springs, which has been one of the premier sites...
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Friday: The See, 'Metal Children,' Nicky Parrish with Kemistri and more
The Weekend Theater opens its production of "The Metal Children," 7:30 p.m., $12-$16. The play concerns a young-adult lit author who travels to a small town whose school board has banned his book, only...
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House Speaker Davy Carter leaving bank job UPDATE
Dang. Beaten to the punch again by Roby Brock. I'd just sent this e-mail to coming House Speaker Davy Carter, the Cabot Republican.I heard you were leaving the bank?Is that true?To do what?And, of...
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Redbone's Downtown closing (Updated)
Hat tip to Eat Arkansas commenter Mordy who brings us the news via Facebook that Redbone's Downtown is closing down. From their page:To all of our family, friends, loyal customers and one-timers we...
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Wakarusa 2013 Lineup part two: Umphrey's McGee, Amon Tobin, Calexico,...
This morning, Wakarusa dropped the second of its three-part lineup announcement. Topping the bill are proggy jam faves Umphrey's McGee, erstwhile jam/alt-rockers Dispatch and video game-soundtracking...
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AAC faculty exhibit opens Friday
The "Museum School Faculty Exhibition: Past and Present," an exhibition that will feature work in a variety of media by current faculty as well as work from the permanent collection by previous...
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Friday: Keller Williams at Revolution
Keller Williams, a.k.a. the one-man jam band, brings his guitars and drums and pedals and samplers and all-around genre-agnostic musical good vibes to Revolution Friday for an all-ages show, 9:30 p.m.,...
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How extreme is Tom Cotton? Part IV
A Washington Monthly reporter joins the ranks of people marveling at the extremist rhetoric that flows from the mouth of Tom Cotton, the Republican Beltway consultant who rented a place in Arkansas to...
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AAC in the black
The Arkansas Arts Center put out a press release yesterday crowing about the fact that it has ended the first six months of the fiscal year in the black, and the board of directors' finance committee...
View ArticleHistory mystery turns up on Craigslist
A book purported to be the 1862 Jefferson County tax ledger, which the person seeking to sell it says includes “many names and their assests [sic] including slaves,” is for sale on Little Rock’s...
View ArticleHere's a new video for The Big Cats''I Can See the Land'
Noice! A new video from The Big Cats, directed by Bryan Stafford. This is for "I Can See the Land," from the band's recently released "The Ancient Art of Leaving: Two Parts," which came out on Max...
View ArticleUPDATE: Disaster relief for Arkansas farmers: But where's Tom Cotton?
HOW EXTREME IS TOM COTTON, PART V:Just got this news release from the Arkansas congressional delegation.The Agriculture Department has signed off on declaring 61 Arkansas counties as drought disaster...
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Thursday: Live at Laman hosts Nicky Parrish and Kemistri
Live at Laman hosts standout singer Nicky Parrish and Kemistri, Laman Library, 7 p.m., free.[ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Open the line
I'm off to Stuttgart. You're on duty. Final words:* BLANCHED: Will Mike Huckabee's claim that President Obama is making war on women by replacing some female cabinet members with women move Blanche...
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UPDATE: McClellan faculty protest principal's transfer
Teachers and faculty from McClellan Magnet High School are planning a protest outside a special Little Rock School Board meeting this evening.On the agenda tonight is a personnel discussion that's...
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The powerless morning line
Dang * BUDDY CAN YOU SPARE A KILOWATT?: my power went out about 11 last night and still out. WTF? I now see I am among 1,800, an area that includes Riverdale's restaurant row, that may be in the dark...
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Saturday To-Do: Bushy Luv
BUSHY LUV8 p.m. Revolution. Donations of $5 and up.Last week, the Arkansas electronic dance music scene was dealt a sad and unexpected blow with the death of Jeffery Hudnall, or Bushy as he was known...
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