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Thursday, May 19, 2011

Law Justice Gunter announces retirement

Posted by Max Brantley on Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:16 AM

As expected, Supreme Court Justice Jim Gunter announced today that he won't seek re-election next year. Arkansas Court of Appeals Judge Raymond Abramson plans to run for the seat.

        
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Thursday, May 19, 2011

Law Justice Gunter announces retirement

Posted by Max Brantley on Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:16 AM

Comments (0)

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It's an open line. But I leave you with some reporting by Paul Carr's essential Forbidden Hillcrest blog: * CRIME: Carr has put together a map of year-to-date burglaries in the northern half of Little Rock by location.

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Event Calendar

Re: Hurst fined again by bar committee for late filing

Re: Two LR cops busted in federal marijuana sting

Re: Little Rock can do better than ditches

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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.

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.

The Times' coverage of the case since 1994.