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The tweet above, which we're using to inaugurate our new semi-regular blog feature, comes from K. Ryan James, a local Republican political consultant and flack.
- by Lindsey Millar
- May 10, 2013
Legislature today: Hendren gets heated over anti-zoning measure

We're long passed the days of knife fights on the state House floor. Now legislators take to Twitter when they wish to inflict bodily harm on those who disagree with them.
- by Lindsey Millar
- Apr 4, 2013
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Re: Viva la open line
- outie, when I started my garden at this place 30 years ago, I first used…
- Posted by YossarianMinderbinder
- on May 25, 2013
Re: Viva la open line
- Send um all home. No one in the US unless you have a terminal degree…
- Posted by larock72
- on May 25, 2013
Re: Viva la open line
- "25-May 1970 Conway teacher Mildred Downs fired for "teaching second graders to protest," specifically that…
- Posted by Olphart
- on May 25, 2013

Judge Griffen reports on recuperation from bike accident

Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen, injured in a bicycle accident last week near his home, sent me an update this morning from his iPad.
Gay TV producer at center of Imboden controversy to speak in LR

* REMEMBER IMBODEN? MEET THE MAN IN THE MIDDLE OF IT: I was happy to get this Facebook note today from Bryant Huddleston, the Imboden native and California TV producer, whose tentative invitation to speak at the Sloan-Hendrix High School graduation fell apart because a couple of School Board members (and many in the community apparently) didn't think it right to have a gay man speak to high school graduates, who included his sister.

The Damien I Know - The Architect and the Inmate

Public for the first time, the woman who married Damien Echols discusses their relationship
Make a pilgrimage to Pho Vietnam in Fort Smith

For the vegetarian banh mi sandwich.
'A Loss of Roses' a stunner

Before last Friday night, the saddest, most "depressing" Depression-era story I had read was Horace McCoy's "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" However, after watching The Arkansas Repertory Theatre's opening performance of William Inge's "A Loss of Roses," I can attest that this play is as rough and unflinching as that Depression-era tale, or any other.
TV producer Bryant Huddleston disinvited as Imboden Ark., high school graduation speaker because he's gay

Our news partner Channel 4 has a news story that deserves repetition in full. More national headlines for the small people of Arkansas should follow directly.
Loy Mauch update: The Republican rep is on record on slavery, too

Perhaps U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin might want to reconsider his earlier decision not to include Republican Rep. Loy Mauch on the list of Republican candidates he'd asked not to use his campaign contributions, having read some of what they'd written.