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Freshmen will pay more at UALR
Some think it's an awkward time to raise the price.
An open letter to Rep. Jon Hubbard
My name is Clayton Lust, I am a PhD candidate in history at the University of Houston. I recently read comments attributed to you on arktimes.com, and to say I was horrified is an understatement. I have spent the last nine years teaching at the college level attempting to correct interpretations such as yours.
The blues
Taj Mahal plays this past weekend at the King Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena.
The Community Pianist
The Observer and Bride of Observer (henceforth known as BOO... because we said so, that's why) were motorvatin' through Stifft Station a while back, coming down Plateau Street, to be specific, when Boo spied a young man playing the piano on his front porch, surrounded by candles.
John Rogers owns more photos than anyone, anywhere
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.
The smoking scalpel
Joann Coleman, a scrappy lawyer, has been raising questions about the proposed affiliation between UAMS and St. Vincent Infirmary Health. The institutions are exploring a way to combine efforts, but hesitate to use the word "merger" and insist that the public nature of one institution and the Catholic nature of the other will not be compromised.
Three stooges
Excerpts of printed material from three Arkansas Republicans currently running for the Arkansas House of Representatives drew national attention this week after they were published by the Times' Arkansas Blog.
It was a good week for the Arkansas Razorbacks
It was also a good week for ethics. It was a bad week for the Arkansas Republican Party, Jack Gillean and the Little Rock Police Department.
Fox in the henhouse
A lengthy ballot means a lot of races for minor offices won't get the attention they deserve on election day. For example: races of the Pulaski County Quorum Court, the county governing body, rarely capture much attention.
Columns
Hitting the road
Fall fell recently and I missed it. I was thinking about something else. Probably some political foolishness that in the end won't amount to a hill of beans, as none of it ever amounts to a hill of beans. A hill of beans amounts to more of a hill of beans than anything that ever sprouts up in the mind of Antonin Scalia. But when fall falls something of giant consequence has occurred. Or recurred.
He said, she said, they said
"Maybe this individual will come to their senses before they get back into society." A reader who saw this quotation in an article about a prisoner seeking parole disapproves of the pairing of individual (singular) with their and they (plural).
Tim Griffin's improbable path to 2nd District
Right-wingers holding opinions beyond the pale have been showing up in improbable offices, but the starkest anomaly has to be the Second Congressional District seat, Tim Griffin, Prop.
Debating a world-class BS artist
Barring a total meltdown — such as forgetting to wear pants or calling for war with Canada — there was no way Mitt Romney wasn't going to be declared the winner of his first debate with President Obama.
A battle for Arkansas's reputation
The greatest force limiting Republican gains in Arkansas politics has been the party's ongoing weakness in recruiting candidates to run under the party label. Even in strong GOP years, the party lacked the candidates to take advantage of favorable tides. Indeed, cycle after cycle, Republicans did not even offer voters an alternative for many posts.
For Obama
If it's true that united we stand and divided we fall, America will come crashing down should Mitt Romney be elected president. He's already declared half the citizenry worthless, and said that as president, he'll concern himself only with the others. All those deemed unworthy of Romney's attention are low- and middle-income Americans, people who, unlike Romney himself, had no rich father's shoulders to stand on. These are the people who most need a friend in the White House. Romney promises the back of his hand.
Look closely at ballot
With early voting set to begin Oct. 22, it's not too soon to be thinking about the lengthy ballot. Some issues that might be overlooked.With early voting set to begin Oct. 22, it's not too soon to be thinking about the lengthy ballot. Some issues that might be overlooked.
Entertainment
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival steps back from the brink
New leadership puts together strong line-up for new location.
Back for more
'Taken 2' a dull retread.
Polica at Stickyz
Also, filmmaker Olivia Wyatt at Vino's.
A glimmer of hope for Hogs
A few happy hours on the ol' Plains at Jordan-Hare Stadium doesn't really constitute a fix, but as Pearls dabbles in crude psychobabble, let's not discount what a 17-point road win in the SEC can mean.
Big K.R.I.T. at Juanita's
Also, Brad Paisley at Verizon, Stars at Revolution, Yonder Mountain String Band's Harvest Music Festival on Mulberry Mountain, the Arkansas State Fair, Harvest Festival at Wildwood, Tav Falco in Fayetteville and A.J. Croce at Juanita's.
Dining
The Box abides
Big delicious burgers still the speciality.
Cartoons
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Re: Partisan justice: Court candidate Wood gets tout from GOP's Curtis Coleman
Rhonda Wood was violating the law if she was holding public juvenile court hearings. All…
- on May 18, 2013
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Re: Partisan justice: Court candidate Wood gets tout from GOP's Curtis Coleman
dbi, I believe that hair piece is properly called called a hell toupee ..
- on May 18, 2013
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Re: See a movie open line
I took your advice and saw "The Discoverers" last night and got to spend time…
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on May 18, 2013
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