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
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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:
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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"
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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
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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,
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