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UPDATE: Andi Davis: No longer attorney on Malvern school case
When the 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appealsheard arguments last week on the important case over the Arkansas school transfer law, news accounts noted that parents seeking the ability to transfer from...
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Party like it's Obama's 2nd term open line UPDATE
Slow day if you weren't in Washington, D.C. I'm leaving it up to you, as Dale and Grace once sang.We might have some more from David Koon before long.UPDATE: Brian Chilson is posting tons of photos on...
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Mr. Dunderbak's gets a second bite at the bratwurst
Return with us, ye mortals, to a time called the early 1970s. A simpler time! No cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet. Just lots of dudes with questionable facial hair, cars that looked...
View ArticleMore shut-ins
There are always Arkansas lawmakers who want more guns in circulation, and the Newtown, Conn., massacre only whetted their appetite for additional firepower. Elsewhere, this would seem...
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T.J. Holmes at Philander Smith
Also, Drive-By Truckers at Revolution, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion at Revolution, Pujol and Diarrhea Planet at Stickyz, Knuckfest at Downtown Music, The Main Thing: 'The Last Night at Orabella's' at...
View ArticleRepublican majority split on tort reform
With the Republican Party in the Arkansas legislative majority, intraparty squabbles now have higher stakes, not to mention opportunities for outsiders. by Max BrantleyWith the Republican Party in the...
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Controversial frac sand mining comes to Arkansas
Five years into the exploration for natural gas in the Fayetteville Shale, most Arkansans know about the hydraulic fracturing process and its links to environmental havoc, including poisoned wells and...
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Joe schmo
Mark Wahlberg doesn't bring anything to the bland 'Broken City.' by Sam EiflingThe time has come to admit that for as much fun as he sometimes is to watch, Mark Wahlberg is an actor in name only. It...
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2013 Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase starts Thursday
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, or perhaps a corrupted MP3, this year's passel of showcase entries has once again proven that Arkansas is loaded with talented musicians. We had dozens of...
View ArticleIt was a good week for Dawne Vandiver
Also a good week for Robert Moore, charter schools, ethics and U.S. Rep. Steve Womack. It was a bad week for equity in education and Mike Hesterly.It was a good week for...DAWNE VANDIVER. Gov. Mike...
View ArticleRandy Harsey and the Dangerous Idiots at Vino's
Plus, Augustana Acoustic at Juanita's.WEDNESDAY 1/23Downtown Music Hall hosts an evening of heavy alt-rock, with Queen Anne's Revenge, Found Fearless, The Toneados and Lost Machina, 8 p.m., $5. Over...
View ArticleSame artists, different juror
Plus some great new Delta entries. by Leslie Newell PeacockThe gentleman who guards the galleries at the Arkansas Arts Center gets to see a lot of art, and so he knows whereof he speaks when he notes...
View ArticleCranky are us
With the master of poignant Observers off in Washington, D.C., this Observer grabs the mike to get cranky.With the master of poignant Observers off in Washington, D.C., this Observer grabs the mike to...
View ArticleEasy call
Expansion of Medicaid — that is, providing better health care for more poor people — is exactly the sort of thing that Winthrop Rockefeller espoused in the late 1960s, when he was Arkansas's first...
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Captain Firearm Safety vs. Militia Man
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View ArticleChurch goes to school in Conway
An interesting controversy is brewing in Conway Public Schools, periodically a scene of discord as more liberal constituents object to the heavy dose of religion that powerful local churches have...
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Jason Baldwin seeks to bring attention to wrongful convictions
With nonprofit 'Proclaim Justice.' by David KoonJason Baldwin, whose freedom from the 17-year prison term he served as one of the West Memphis Three was brought about by public scrutiny and press...
View ArticleKroger update needed
Kroger stores in the black and minority communities of Little Rock look like they are in Soweto, South Africa, in the '60s, particularly the one on East Roosevelt, compared to the designer stores on...
View ArticleA solution in search of a problem
So much easier it is to legislate based upon myth and agreeable fancy than upon hard reality. Simple, half-baked remedies serve the former well, but they wreak havoc when they are introduced into the...
View ArticleTaking issue
I thought it odd to see this item in the daily paper: "Because the stock markets were closed Tuesday for New Year's Day, there is no business section in today's edition." Odd not because the markets...
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