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Alice Walton is our Arkansan of the Year
For bringing Crystal Bridges to her native state.
Other Arkies of the Year
Bobby Petrino, Jeff Nichols, Alyse Eady and more also stood out in 2011.
Ban on cell phone use by drivers isn't likely
Though it would save lives.
Who killed Jim Sjodin?
One year later, no leads in Stifft Station murder.
A dream and a voice
The holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was Monday, with downtown Little Rock and the Birds**t Lot where we dock the Mobile Observatory every morning a ghost town.
It was a good week for hypocrisy
Also a good week for ice cream lovers and parking at UALR. It was a bad week for the VA drop-in clinic, the state hospital, state employees and gamblers.
Dems have candidate
It's been a long struggle, but it looks like the Democratic Party has a candidate for Congress in the 2nd District against incumbent U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin, the Little Rock Republican.
The party line
Congressional Quarterly is out with its annual party unity ranking.
Correcting the Democrat-Gazette on the 1957 crisis
Billy Roy Wilson, a mule farmer in Bigelow and part-time federal judge, sent us a copy of a letter he'd sent to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette concerning its persistent misstatement of a key legal event in the 1957 school crisis. Since we've written about it before — and have a copy of the ruling in which a federal judge's words clearly contradict those in D-G boilerplate recitation — we thought we'd share it.
The Arkansas Twitterverse by the numbers
How often did Arkansas Twitter celebrities tweet in 2011?
Columns
Gangsters
Last month, the Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives refused to disapprove a Republican congressman's comparison of Democrats to Joseph Goebbels.
The Chamber of Commerce tax
Thanks to citizen watchdog Barry Haas, we learned last week that the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce is working to increase its hidden tax on Little Rock residents.
Lyons: Talking 'truth vigilantes'
Time was when newspaper journalists prided themselves on being working stiffs: skeptical, cynical and worldly-wise. "If your mother says she loves you, check it out." I've always preferred the unofficial motto of my native New Jersey: "Oh yeah, who says?"
Getting wise to GOP tax ploy
The call for lower taxes has been the holy talisman that guided Republican presidential candidates to victory for 32 years, or at least that was the popular wisdom.
All too obvious
I'm so tired of these peckerwood know-it-alls who know it all and are ready to tell you all about it. It's all so obvious to them.
On trolls and flame wars
The thorny world of online comments.
Law taking a licking
"Tim Errity, now 23, said he was riding in a car with his cousin, Tom Foolaree, when Foolaree asked him if he was ready to 'hit a lick' — slang for committing a robbery."
Entertainment
For the love of the game
Video gaming with soul at Little Rock's Game Ever.
The Toasters to Maxine's
Plus Douglas Blackmon at Hendrix, Cody Canada at Revolution, Arkansas River City Blues Society Fundraiser at Cornerstone, Evanescence at Verizon and Billy Joe Shaver at Revolution.
The value of Jeff Long
Days ago in this space I made a passing reference to a recent Forbes report that assessed the most valuable college football programs in America. It was in the context of that article that author Chris Smith presented us with a rather jarring bit of data: "The biggest change since 2009 belongs to eighth-ranked University of Arkansas, whose football program climbed 59% in value over the past two years."
'Laramie Project' a catalyst for dialogue
"The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later," now playing at The Weekend Theater, is an addendum to the original Laramie Project.
Been there, seen that
'Contraband' mines familiar territory.
Sean Michel plays Stickyz
Plus the Rally for Reproductive Justice.
2012 Showcase schedule
Plus new ownership at downtown clubs.
Dining
Grady's abides
Thanks to a successful formula.
Cartoons
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Re: Gun control group to spend against Pryor
Hell, larock, you and NRA are blood brothers, both pushing for the demise of America…
- on May 24, 2013
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Re: UA prof writes on the 'junk science' of 20-week abortion bans
I know Lisa and she lives in another world
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on May 24, 2013
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Re: Must read: Roy Reed's obituary on Orval Faubus' sister
No, plainjim, Arkansas' greatest journalist would be John Harold Johnson. (Some might say Helen Gurley…
- on May 24, 2013
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