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Travs led by secretive power structure
The Arkansas Travelers fired two front office employees last week, a move that's raised the ire of some fans who question the unchecked power wielded by the fan-owned team's executive president, Russ Meeks.
Going wet
The era of "we will remain pure and in poverty" is over. The era of treating adults like children is over. The era of sacred wet ground vs. sacred dry ground is over. The grasp of the drive-in window Baptists controlling the world is over.
On ice
Carson Bridges, Tanner Edwards and Brody Morehead take to the ice rink at the River Market this past weekend. The rink is open through Jan. 6, 2013.
Philanthropic dollars for Arkansas in 2011-2012
Giving to medicine tops the list.
Picture of health
Arkansas has one of the most restrictive Medicaid programs in the United States. Now, one in four Arkansans is uninsured. Unless pregnant or disabled, childless adults don't qualify for Medicaid, even though they are destitute.
St. Vincent lays off employees
St. Vincent Health System, in its effort to trim $12 million from its budget, laid off 29 employees last Thursday and Friday, CEO and President Peter Banko confirmed Tuesday.
Thankful
Over the weekend, Junior — an avid young tubaist (Tubadour? Tuba Wrangler?) — was reading one of the online tuba forums (yes, they exist) and discovered that he'd been lax in bathing his tuba. No, that's not a euphemism for something unprintable.
It was a good week for Rep. Davy Carter
It was also a good week for the fight for equality, Jeff Hankins, Jeff Long and the family of Vickie Lynn Freemyer. It was a bad week for public art.
STAND without Steele?
The STAND Foundation — a non-profit founded by State Representative Tracy Steele for the expressed purpose of offering leadership training for young adults in Arkansas — may be looking for a new executive if Steele prevails in his runoff election for North Little Rock mayor against Joe Smith on Tuesday.
Fund-raisers aim for Millennials
Aron Shelton, 28, and Alyssa Snyder, 29, are of the generation known as "Millennials," young men and women who came of age in front of a computer and prefer to text their friends rather than make a call. When they want to know something, they turn to cyberspace, and when they learn something they pass it on through social media.
All wet
Encouraged by positive elections for alcohol sales elsewhere in Arkansas, a drive is underway to make all of Pulaski County open to alcohol sales.
Most generous zip code: 72223
Chronicle report drills down.
Foundation assets and giving
The top 15 Arkansas grantmakers, by fair market value, and Arkansas foundations granting more than $1 million, according to 990 form tax filings for 2011.
Burris' latest move
Fresh off a key role in an 11th hour effort by which a handful of Republicans and the Democratic caucus made Rep. Davy Carter the next House speaker, Rep. John Burris of Harrison is looking to increase his clout in Arkansas Republican Party politics.
Columns
Giving thanks, 2012
Time again to say grace over the bird. Some possibilities to pick and choose from.
Vote suppression's new form in Arkansas: the I.D.
Arkansas has a long, sordid history of crooked elections and also of voter apathy, and it's impossible to know if one follows the other or if both just go with the geography and the culture.
Arkansas swings Republican
Those of us who teach Arkansas politics have to rewrite some lecture notes after Election 2012. No matter the ultimately hairsbreadth GOP margin in the state House of Representatives, the key region in determining the outcome of statewide elections in Arkansas appears to have finally swung in a markedly Republican direction. This outcome has decisive implications for the future of electoral politics in the state.
Obamascare
On hearing that Texans had proposed secession from the United States of America, one's first thought was "A dream come true."
Brantley: A turkey for North Little Rock
North Little Rock voters who are able to wobble to the polls the Tuesday after Thanksgiving may set the table for another sort of feast in the mayor's office.
GIF sneaks up
"It's been delighting people around the world for 25 years but now formally holds an honored place in the cultural lexicon: 'GIF' has been chosen as word of the year by the Oxford American Dictionary.
Searching for answers in real America
Even as professional Republicans hasten to turn Mitt Romney into an unmentionable nonentity like George W. Bush, journalists are fanning out into the hinterlands like anthropologists to study the impact of President Obama's re-election upon the GOP candidate's dedicated supporters.
Entertainment
Big Cats for Thanksgiving
Little Rock band celebrates release of triple LP.
Gucci Mane to Metroplex
Also, "Jazz vs. Hip-Hop: The Black Out" at Twelve Modern Lounge, Quintron and Miss Pussycat at Low Key Arts, The Main Thing's "A Fertle Holiday" at The Joint, Moscow Ballet's 'The Nutcracker' at Robinson Center Music Hall, the Big Dam Bridge Full Moon Walk, Cirque Dreams Holidaze at Robinson Center Music Hall
Jeff Long's turn
As the final hours of a cruel, miserable 2012 football season tick away, the time is nigh for Pearls to shift focus.
Handmade Moments at The Public Theatre
And Montego opens.
Living history
'Lincoln' is high drama.
Dining
Wish they all could be Baja Grill's
In our journeys through the small towns of Arkansas, we've been amazed time and again with the specialty restaurants and food vendors tucked away off the beaten path where only the locals go. Certainly, no one would peg Benton as a place serving up some of the best California-style tacos this side of the Golden State — but the locals know better, and when they get a craving for one-of-a-kind tacos and burritos, they head down to a little taco truck called Baja Grill.
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