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The Bold Predictions Edition
Speculation on Mark Darr's fate, plus bold predictions on what'll happen at the Joint Performance Review Committee hearing on the UA Advancement Division public accountability issues, whether the...
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The Portents of Jonesboro Edition
The state Senate special election in Jonesboro, early consequences of the new voter ID law, state Rep. Mark Biviano applying for a six figure job he helped create, Tom Cotton voting against Arkansas...
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The Don't Let the Darr Hit You on the Way Out Edition
The imperiled private option, the lieutenant governor’s office post-Darr, Arkansas Department of Education director Tom Kimbrell, the ouster of LR Wastewater chief Reggie Corbitt and Tom Cotton’s vote...
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The Lt. Gov's Office Has Never Gotten Such Attention Edition
Michael Lamoureux and the staff of the former lieutenant governor, Tim Griffin’s interest in running for lieutenant governor, Mike Ross’s plan to cut income taxes, new charges against Martha Shoffner,...
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The No Good Nine Edition
The no-good nine and Nate Bell who’re working to destroy the private option, Gilbert Baker’s fundraising for Republicans, U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin’s entrance into the lieutenant governor's race and the...
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The Tyranny of the Minority Edition
How much we hate the Arkansas legislature and minority rule, what Asa Hutchinson and French Hill think about the private option, a new congressional candidate, whether a casino might be in Little...
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The Josh Miller in the Spotlight Edition
The latest in the fight to over reauthorizing the private option in Arkansas, the legislative hypocrite of the week, Sen. Johnny Key and the University of Arkansas and a beginning of the end of the...
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The It's All Over But the Shoutin' Edition
The end of the fiscal session, including passage of the private option; the end of Circuit Judge Mike Maggio’s campaign for Court of Appeals, the political landscape for the Arkansas House after...
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The PAC Men Edition
Nursing home owner Michael Morton and his campaign contributions, Sheridan High School’s move to suppress a gay high school student from writing about his experience in a yearbook, the future of a tax...
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The Cape Town Here We Come Edition
Lindsey's out sick today so I filled in with Max, who is about to embark on a journey to Africa, so get your fix now. We covered the latest on shenanigans from Mike Maggio and Gilbert Baker, the Koch...
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The Swamp Possum Spring Break Edition
Clinton foe-turned Clinton champion David Brock's return to Little Rock, Sen. Jason Rapert’s opposition to a Beebe appointment, the one-year anniversary of the Mayflower oil spill and the Arkansas...
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The Judicial Chaos Edition
Chaos among the state judiciary, Gilbert Baker’s resignation from UCA, Sen. Mark Pryor and the minimum wage, Mike Ross’ pre-K plan and Exxon's not-so-new revelations about the Mayflower oil spill—all...
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The Where We Are with Health Care Expansion Edition
The state of Arkansas appealing a federal judge’s ruling striking down the 12-week abortion ban the legislature passed in 2012, the latest in the race for U.S. Senate between Tom Cotton and Mark...
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The Health Care Wonkcast Edition
The latest in the Cotton vs. Pryor race, what 8 million enrolled in Obamacare marketplaces means, what higher than projected costs in the private option mean and the Arkansas Lottery Commission’s...
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The Unconstitutional Arkansas Laws Keep Falling Edition
Judge Tim Fox striking down the 2013 voter id law, Mark Pryor holding tough in polls, Republican primary candidates running hard to the right, Democratic candidate Jackie McPherson running tough in the...
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The 'There's a Lot about the Unknowns We Don't Know' Edition
The latest on the Arkansas voter I.D. law in court, the Bishop's beef with Catholic Health Iniatives acquisition of QualChoice, what Andy Allison stepping down means for the private option, key...
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The Woo Pig Sooie TM Edition
I fill in for Lindsey this week, who's on daddy duty with a new baby boy (congrats Lindsey!). Max joins me to talk Razorback trademarking, the state of the Pryor-Cotton and Hutchinson-Ross races...
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Listen to the 911 call that led to an arrest in the disappearance of Beverly...
The Pulaski County Sheriff's Office and Little Rock Police Department have released audio from the 911 call this morning that led to the arrest of Arron M. Lewis, 33, on a bench warrant for kidnapping...
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James McLean can bring "gobs and gobs and gobs" of new jobs
I mentioned yesterday the old-timey radio jingle that James McLean is employing in his run for state Senate against anti-private-option Tea Partier Linda Collins-Smith. The version I posted yesterday...
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Holder, Clinton address national mayor's conference at Clinton Center
Former President Bill Clinton and current U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder appeared at the Clinton Center this morning to address the U.S. Conference of Mayors, who are holding a meeting in Little...
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Republican ad calls 10-year-old's song idiotic; the return blast is awesome
Empathy has never been a strong suit of Republicans. Pain is good for you (emphasis on you), they think. Tom Cotton's voting record demonstrates. But sometimes toughness backfires.Republican Stacy...
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Kim Kardashian, a Christmas playlist, local poetry and more
Arkansas Times Recommends is a weekly series in which Times staff members (or whoever happens to be around at the time) highlight things we've been enjoying this week. Tonight, is the Arkansas Times...
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An open line; dissection of Sen. Jason Rapert, and strange murder case witness
Here's an open line. And, in time, perhaps today's video. Meanwhile: * SEN. JASON "NUKE 'EM" RAPERT: We've had sport already with Sen. Jason Rapert's emergence from the Gilbert Baker Memorial...
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Anti-LGBT 'Religious Freedom' bill passes Senate
HB1228, the so-called conscience protection bill by Rep. Bob Ballinger (R-Hindsville) that would allow Arkansans to discriminate against LGBT people based on their personal interpretation of religion,...
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Bill to place monument to Ten Commandments on the state capitol grounds...
A bill that will place a monument to the Biblical Ten Commandments on the grounds of the Arkansas State Capitol has passed the House by a vote of 72-7, with one member voting present. Senate Bill 939,...
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