Monday, January 14, 2013
The legislative morning line
Posted by Max Brantley on Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 6:31 AM
A slow morning except ...
* ARKANSAS LEGISLATURE CONVENES: AP has compiled a useful pre-session legislative guide, with a link to some of the top issues on the agenda. Apart from the social gospel of the Republican majority, everything else is about money, one way or another, even the school "reform" issues that are mostly about whether public schools will share state support with quasi-private charter schools or even private schools, as some legislators desire. The coverage is posted on Arkansas Business. (Link corrected.)
* NEWSMAN TO ARCHIVIST: A University of Arkansas release reports a new position for a well-known local newsman. Randy Dixon, former news director at KATV, is the new director of the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Oral and Visual History at UAF. The center's Twitter feed periodically posts historic photos of note. Facebook page, too.
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May 16, 2013Crazy Davy Carter, the House speaker who is a potential Republican candidate for governor, won headlines all over today for remarks at a legislative conference in Hot Springs that Republicans need to move beyond guns and abortion to focus on issues more important to average Arkies. /more/
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Flash: Texas grows enlightened on women's issues
May 7, 2013Interesting story from Texas on the Texas legislature. Republicans, who control nearly everything in Texas, apparently suffered huge blowback from their war on women in the last legislative session that cut health care to women in the battle to destroy Planned Parenthood. /more/
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Dumas: Obamacare covered a sorry legislative record
April 23, 2013Ernie Dumas writes this week that the 2013 legislature's approval of Obamacare, against long odds, made up for a multitude of sins. /more/
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Guns, fetuses, God and Obamacare: The legislature wraps it up
April 23, 2013At 9:17 a.m., the House adjourned until a formal close May 17. The Senate should follow in short order, if it hasn't already. /more/
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Now the legislature cuts up the swag
April 22, 2013If no detours develop, the Arkansas legislature should finish tomorrow and go home. Today and tomorrow will be primarily devoted to passage of the revenue stabilization act, which guides overall state spending, and — much more important to individual members — approval of expenditures from the General Improvement Fund, a surprlus account. /more/
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What, me worry? Beebe to sign tax cuts
April 19, 2013Gov. Mike Beebe said today that he'd sign a raft of tax cut bills — heavily tilted toward the wealthy — that could reduce state income by $140 million or more in three years. /more/
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Morning report: Won't you go home Arkansas legislature?
April 19, 2013The Friday morning warmup: * THE RUSH TO ADJOURN: "Deliberative" is not a word that applies to the death rattle of the Arkansas legislature — not when the Senate rushes out, with virtually no debate, $150 million or so in tax cuts on everything from baling wire purchases to multi-million-dollar windfalls on unearned income for corporate capitalists. /more/
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Blanche Lincoln speaks out for rights of Arkansas women
April 12, 2013It's a measure of how cynical people had become about former U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln that an opinion piece she's posted on Huffington Post has people wondering what her ulterior motive might be. /more/
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Morning report: Democrats say 'Save Our Session'
April 9, 2013Good morning. What's good about it you ask? /more/
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Legislature works on Saturday
April 6, 2013Yes, the legislature is meeting today. Lengthy agendas full of bad legislation in a compressed time period is not a formula for good government. /more/
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