In addition to its other problems involving Lu Hardin, who resigned as president under fire last month, the University of Central Arkansas has been forced to cut operating expenditures, particularly on scholarships, under pressure from the state Dep read more »
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First Financial Network Inc. announced this week that it is marketing a $190 million loan portfolio that includes loans from the ... read more »
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A reader still without electricity in Little Rock is steamed, figuratively and literally. She wonders if others have encountered similar difficulties, including a snippy Arkansas PSC staff. Her tale on the jump: read more »
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Can the national media ever get enough of Clintonizing their political coverage?
Apparently not. Today in the New York Times it's whether Hillary will get her dander up and challenge Sarah Palin for supremacy among women voters. Even conservat read more »
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Mayor Mark Stodola. Give him credit. He fires back.
Re some dismissive remarks here about fairly small-bore plans for War Memorial Park after what seems like a decade of study, he has r read more »
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It's supposed to announced today.Here's the link. read more »
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A reader added this in comments to an open line last night, but it bears more attention.
Library director Bobby Roberts is calling for allies in the library's effort to hold down the size of a hotel proposed read more »
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Arkansas Republicans leave St. Paul buoyant about the party's chances to carry Arkansas in November. I suspect they're right. I also suspect we'll see little of the candidates, save maybe a lightning money strike at XNA. A Republican I talked with&n read more »
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Says here that Gov. Mike Beebe's pick to succeed the late Bill Gwatney as Democratic Party chair could be announced today.
Ideas? One correspondent suggests Jimmie Lou Fisher. read more »
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Funny, intelligent, powerful...I could go on and on and on...Michael Reagan's column this week is actually entitled Welcome Back Dad. read more »
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With help from the New York Times and James Fallows of Atlantic, I've already worked over Mike Huckabee for trotting out again before a national TV audience last night a teacher's head-scratching metaphor about how veterans somehow "earned" read more »
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Everybody's a critic. And you get in public life and nothing is off limits. U.S. News says The Huck has put on 20. Been grave digging with that knife and fork. Me, too. read more »
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You read it here first, in June 2007: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has acquired the 1887 painting "The Indian and the Lily" by George deForest Brush. We predicted it; Crystal Bridges confirmed it today in a pr read more »
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It's not your imagination. A lot of the water in Little Rock looks dirty. Central Arkansas Water operators say this is manganese, somehow stirred up in the lines by the heavy rains. ???
 It's a "natural element," we're assured, read more »
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Republicans speaking from both sides of mouth. Rich stuff. read more »
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An Arkie blogger catches Karl Rove in St. Paul. Turdblossom predicts a five-point post-convention bounce for McCain and, thus, a dead heat going into the final weeks. read more »
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