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  • Feb 15-21, 2012
  • Vol. 38, No. 24

News

  • The Observer

    • The snow that wasn't

    By the time The Observer got to work on Monday morning, the snow was coming down hard — big, wet flakes that dissolved the instant they hit the pavement.
  • The Week That Was

    • It was a good week for Bishop Woosley

    Also a good week for a plan to repair the Pulaski County Special School District's financial woes and a legislative gimmick. It was a bad week for Mike Huckabee, John Shannon and the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival.
  • Eye on Arkansas

    • Short-lived

    A dusting of snow covered Little Rock for a short while Monday
  • Letters

    • In support of Comcast

    In a press release by Comcast in August 2011 I was quoted in support of Comcast's program to close the digital divide as follows, "We are proud to pledge our support, but we can't do this alone. We need parents, educators, community leaders and other government officials to join in this effort, spread the word and help increase broadband adoption in our communities."
  • The Big Picture

    • Step carefully

    Downtown Little Rock is the most dangerous place for pedestrians in the metropolitan area of Pulaski, Faulkner, Lonoke and Saline counties, according to a new report by Metroplan.
  • The Insider

    • Can the west be won?

    Can a Democrat win a House race in western Little Rock? To test that proposition, the Democrats have a strong candidate for House District 32, now held by Republican Allen Kerr.
  • The Insider

    • VA honcho comes to town

    U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller, chair of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, is coming to visit Little Rock to do his own evaluation of the plan to move a day center for vets to 10th and Main, the Democrat-Gazette reported on Tuesday.
  • Cover Stories

    • Tokyo House: Not your pappy's buffet

    While the world is full of sub-standard all-you-can-scarf joints — many of which have shambled on, zombielike, long beyond their rightful expiration date — this year's Readers Choice winner for Best Buffet, West Little Rock's Tokyo House, has gone a long way toward restoring our faith in buffet dining.
  • Cover Stories

    • Community Bakery owner Joe Fox dishes on his rise in the business

    Community Bakery, at 12th and Main streets, opened in 1947 in Rose City, but it had moved to a small storefront on South Main when Joe Fox found it in the early 1980s. Since buying it, he moved the bakery into its current space in the Cohn Building and added a second location in West Little Rock. His kitchen pumps out thousands of cookies, cakes and any other baked good you can imagine 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Columns

  • Guest Writer

    • Primed for reform

    Arkansas is an incredible state for a lot of reasons, but few of us think of our political system as uniquely effective. But the fact is that Arkansas has made remarkable progress on a range of issues in the past 15 years — under Republican and Democratic leadership — while much of the nation has been embroiled in gridlock that has more to do with mud wrestling than good governance.
    • by Bill Kopsky
  • Words

    • Loan me your ears

    "But a couple of weeks ago, Bank of America decided not to loan Abrams the money she needs to buy the $120,000 house."
  • Gene Lyons

    • Lyons: The contraceptive kerfuffle

    For the record, the priest who married my wife and me in 1967 advised us that we could in good faith practice birth control. He reasoned that as Pope Paul VI was then preparing an encyclical regarding faith and sexuality, young Catholics could reasonably assume that church dogma regarding contraception would soon change to reflect contemporary realities: specifically that a couple intending to bring children into their marriage might legitimately seek to do so in their own time.
    • by Gene Lyons
  • Bob Lancaster

    • The big ol' good 'un looms

    I still think the big crash is coming, probably this year. Not because of the Mayan calendar, but because we slimed our epoch with stupidity until it couldn't bear up under the weight of it and the shame of it and the embarrassment.
    • by Bob Lancaster
  • Editorials

    • Too devious by half

    In the '50s, Arkansas state officials sought ways to oppress black schoolchildren without being caught breaking the law. Today, they look for ways to ravage religious freedom without being caught breaking the law. The option of simply doing what's right seems not to have crossed their minds in either instance.

Entertainment

  • To-Do List

    • Hill Harper to UALR

    Also: Self Defence Sistem at White Water, Little Rock Horror Festival at Market Street, Rodney Block and 607 at Twelve, Samantha Crain and Broncho at White Water, Scott Kelly and Eugene Robinson at Downtown Music, Supersuckers at Juanita's and Yelawolf at Revolution.
    • by Robert Bell and Lindsey Millar
  • Pearls About Swine

    • Young talent

    By and large, this column since its genesis has centered on the Razorbacks, plural. I depart from that this week because the mercurial Hog basketballers have a guy who warrants a little more attention.
    • by Beau Wilcox

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