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Sunday, September 5, 2010

Arkansas Politics The mighty governor

Posted by Max Brantley on Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 7:14 AM

And speaking of getting political talking points planted in the newspaper:

Does anybody really believe the governor of a state can have any influence, except on the margins, of the economy? Republicans might as well add the price of gasoline, falling home prices and a poor cotton crop to its bill of particulars against Gov. Mike Beebe.

We want to talk dirty about Beebe, let's talk about a searching look at throwing taxpayer money at whatever industry comes along, including industries built less on economic fundamentals than on upstream subsidies from the federal government (wind energy). Let's talk about whether we've done as good a job as, say, Pennsylvania at insuring there's not a net detriment from shale exploration on account of inadequate extraction taxes and inadequate environmental supervision. Such business friendly governance is, of course, core Republican theology.

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Speaking of Gov. Mike Beebe

Beebe names Bunny Adcock to UCA Board of Trustees

May 16, 2012

by Max Brantley

Gov. Mike Beebe has named Robert "Bunny" Adcock, a Conway banker, to the University of Central Arkanas Board of Trustees. /more/
Rise in revenues means state spending increase

May 9, 2012

by Max Brantley

An unexpected rise in state revenue will enable an increase in state spending in the final two months of this fiscal year, which ends June 30, Gov. Mike Beebe has announced. /more/
Slowing the rise in health care spending

April 29, 2012

by Max Brantley

Nobody's declaring victory yet, but there are enormous implications in the finding reported today that something may be finally arresting the rise in health care spending. /more/
Resolved: Scott Roussel should resign from UCA Board

April 27, 2012

by Max Brantley

The faculty Senate of the University of Central Arkansas yesterday adopted a resolution urging Scott Roussel to resign from the UCA Board of Trustees. /more/
Sheffield Nelson schools Beebe on severance tax

April 6, 2012

by Max Brantley

I never really expected Gov. Mike Beebe, who cut his teeth golfing with the lobby in the Senate, to be a supporter of the Sheffield Nelson-backed initiative to raise the pitifully low severance tax on natural gas. /more/
Former forestry finance chief Robert Araiza retires

March 9, 2012

by Max Brantley

Robert Araiza, the financial officer who was in the middle of the long-running controversy over financial shortfalls at the Arkansas Forestry Commission, has taken state retirement. /more/
Missing Mike Huckabee

March 6, 2012

by Max Brantley

Gov. Mike Beebe's office sent out a round of pardons today and they fit the pattern of his tenure — only six granted among 59 applications and then only for relatively minor offenses. /more/
Talk among yourselves

March 3, 2012

by Max Brantley

I'm off the web grid this morning outside Johnson City, Texas with only an iPhone for blogging. /more/
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Moral Leadership and the Myth of 'Centrist' Thinking
by George Lakoff

worth a Sunday read..it's about Westin's recent article

Lakoff is here:
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/09/0…

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Posted by eLwood on 09/05/2010 at 1:11 PM

eLwood - Beyond the title, I couldn't find anything in the article about centrists. It was all about liberals vs. conservatives.

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Lance Hines' real beef with Occupy Little Rock

I've written before that City Director Lance Hines got the Occupy Little Rock eviction movement going by complaining about the unslightly appearance of their tent camp at 4th and Ferry.
- by Max Brantley
- May 23, 2012
Razorback chat board broke the Petrino story

Discussions yesterday about the State Police role in reacting to Bobby Petrino's motorcycle wreck April 1 reminded me of a tip I got relative to who first broke the news of that incident.
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- Apr 10, 2012
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Sunday, September 5, 2010

Arkansas Politics The mighty governor

Posted by Max Brantley on Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 7:14 AM

Speaking of Gov. Mike Beebe

Gov. Mike Beebe has named Robert "Bunny" Adcock, a Conway banker, to the University of Central Arkanas Board of Trustees. /more/

An unexpected rise in state revenue will enable an increase in state spending in the final two months of this fiscal year, which ends June 30, Gov. Mike Beebe has announced. /more/

Nobody's declaring victory yet, but there are enormous implications in the finding reported today that something may be finally arresting the rise in health care spending. /more/

The faculty Senate of the University of Central Arkansas yesterday adopted a resolution urging Scott Roussel to resign from the UCA Board of Trustees. /more/

I never really expected Gov. Mike Beebe, who cut his teeth golfing with the lobby in the Senate, to be a supporter of the Sheffield Nelson-backed initiative to raise the pitifully low severance tax on natural gas. /more/

Robert Araiza, the financial officer who was in the middle of the long-running controversy over financial shortfalls at the Arkansas Forestry Commission, has taken state retirement. /more/

Gov. Mike Beebe's office sent out a round of pardons today and they fit the pattern of his tenure — only six granted among 59 applications and then only for relatively minor offenses. /more/

I'm off the web grid this morning outside Johnson City, Texas with only an iPhone for blogging. /more/

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I've written before that City Director Lance Hines got the Occupy Little Rock eviction movement going by complaining about the unslightly appearance of their tent camp at 4th and Ferry.

Discussions yesterday about the State Police role in reacting to Bobby Petrino's motorcycle wreck April 1 reminded me of a tip I got relative to who first broke the news of that incident.

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Re: Surgeon general strikes deal on disturbance charges

Re: Riverfest eve open line UPDATE

Re: Little Rock can do better than ditches

Late-breaking news from the federal courthouse: Two Little Rock police officers, half-brothers Mark Jones and Randall Robinson, have been arrested for roles in a plan to distribute more than 1,000 pounds of marijuana and use of a firearm in the course of a crime.

A plea bargain has ended the disturbance case against Surgeon General Joe Thompson, arrested by Little Rock police at his Hillcrest home March 31.

Tomorrow will be kind of crazy as Riverfest takes hold of my office's corner of downtown.

We can do better. Re my rant earlier today about the scarcity of visionary and dramatic efforts by local government to build a city that anyone could see at a glance is a great city.

People magazine reports that Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar are expecting their 20th child this spring.

Buddhists fit easily into a traditional Ozark lifestyle.

U.S. Rep. Steve Womack is a former National Guard colonel and he apparently acted like a rank-pulling jerk at a rare town hall meeting Wednesday night, according to this report from Blue Arkansas.

Social media and e-mails are buzzing with an effort to build a protest of a North Little City Council ordinance to be considered tonight that would allow shooting Canada geese in Burns Park, where their excrement has become a nuisance on the golf course and soccer fields.

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