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Monday, December 10, 2012

Hilltopper Open Line

Posted by David Ramsey on Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:18 PM

DEAR JEFF: Bret Bielema apparently wrote Jeff Long back in September to tell him that firing Bobby Petrino was "the right call!"

LADY HILLTOPPERS: Most of the Petrino jokes I've seen today are lame. Y'all heard any good ones?

WORLD OF WALMART: Walmart is facing controversy as it tries to expand to India.

GRIFFIN ON GAY MARRIAGE: Arkansas native Chad Griffin, now heading the Human Rights Campaign, on the Supreme Court’s decision to hear the gay-marriage cases.

WHAT HAPPENS IF MEDICARE AGE IS RAISED? Here's a good outline of the practical impact if they end up raising the Medicare eligibility age as part of a "fiscal cliff" bargain.

        
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Monday, December 10, 2012

Hilltopper Open Line

Posted by David Ramsey on Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:18 PM

Comments (32)

More by David Ramsey

*MAYOR RAISE DECISION DELAYED: The Little Rock Board of Directors yesterday postponed the decision on whether to give Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola a raise of almost $20,000.

Gov. Mike Beebe today announced the appointment of Jay Shue as the state's first Medicaid Inspector General.

Event Calendar

Re: David Sanders: Planned Parenthood contract "not going to happen"

Re: David Sanders: Planned Parenthood contract "not going to happen"

Re: Mark Darr: "looks like they've done a good job" on Mayflower cleanup

We noted yesterday that, as Republicans lob attacks on Planned Parenthood, Insurance Commissioner Jay Bradford met with an official from the group on Friday to discuss their application to participate in the Affordable Care Act's "guides" program.

Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen, injured in a bicycle accident last week near his home, sent me an update this morning from his iPad.

KUAR reports on Lieutenant Governor Mark Darr's visit to Mayflower, where he toured cleanup efforts with Mayor Randy Holland.

Little Rock School Board member Dianne Curry, who is running for lieutenant governor, said that current Lieutenant Governor Mark Darr was "using the misery of the people, the residents of Mayflower, Arkansas, to garner feel good press."

Mike Huckabee, who left Arkansas, where he built the platform for his media success and which, incidentally, has an income tax, is putting down expensive roots in a beach development in Walton County, Fla., east of Destin — a $3 million home.

Public for the first time, the woman who married Damien Echols discusses their relationship

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Over the past three years, his Rogers Photo Archive in North Little Rock has been on a buying spree, purchasing the vast photo morgues of 11 great (and greatly cash-strapped) American newspapers, including the Chicago Sun-Times, The Denver Post, the Boston Herald and The Detroit News.

As expected, the Diamond Bear craft brewery is pulling up stakes in Little Rock and moving to North Little Rock.