Friday, May 4, 2012
Week in Review Podcast The Resignation Edition
Posted by Lindsey Millar on Fri, May 4, 2012 at 5:50 PM
Joyce Elliott's resignation from her post leading the Central Little Rock Promise Neighborhood, Democrat-Gazette Editor Griffin Smith's sudden and mysterious resignation, the latest questions about a lottery ticket that's subject of a lawsuit and 20 years of the tabloid edition of the Arkansas Times are covered this week. Plus, Max endorses new potatoes and I talk skateboarding.
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Speaking of Joyce Elliott, Griffin Smith
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Diamonds in the manure of the Arkansas legislature
May 9, 2013Some legislators and legislation shone. /more/
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Legislature today: DREAM again denied for immigrant children
April 10, 2013Sen. Joyce Elliott's bill to allow colleges to charge in-state tuition to undocumented immigrant students who've graduated from Arkansas high schools and had sufficient residency here failed in a Senate committee today. /more/
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War on Women continues: Republicans again kill ERA in Senate committee
April 2, 2013Sen. Joyce Elliott will try again today. A resolution for Arkansas to ratify the federal Equal Rights Amendment is on the Senate State Agencies Committee agenda at 10 a.m. this morning. /more/
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Barth: The DREAM remains alive
March 28, 2013Within days, we will know whether the Arkansas DREAM Act, the legislation focused on providing in-state college tuition to undocumented young people who have been educated in the state's high schools, has legs in this legislative session. /more/
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Sunday open line
March 24, 2013Here's an open line. Also: * VOTER INITIATIVES: Here's an article by Paul Jacob, a North Little Rock native who was an important foot soldier in the national campaign to pass term limits. /more/
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The women's rights open line
March 23, 2013A two-week grassroots campaign on social media brought maybe 500 people to the Capitol on a cold, rainy day Saturday to protest the legislature's attack on women's medical rights (and speakers invoked a range of other liberty-infringing efforts by the legislature). /more/
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'The Baby-Faced Killah' and the Ledge-Ends of the Game
March 15, 2013The first annual Arkansas Legislative Hoops For Kids' Sake Game is coming up on Tuesday, and we're really, really excited here at the Times. So much so that we've wasted a couple hours making 10 basketball cards of participating members, replete with nicknames and scouting reports. /more/
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Elliott files bill to close tuition gap for undocumented students
March 11, 2013As promised, Sen. Joyce Elliott (D-Little Rock) has filed a bill that would allow undocumented students — many of whom, as David Koon described in a recent cover story, were brought here as small children and know no other country — an opportunity to receive in-state tuition rates at state colleges. /more/
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Director Destin Daniel Cretton's "Short Term 12," which won the Grand Jury Prize at this year's SXSW, will open this year's Little Rock Film Festival with screenings on both sides of the river.
- Apr 19, 2013
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