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The fight to desegregate the Arkansas Capitol cafeteria
It took protests and the court to make the Capitol follow law.
No rights for tenants in Arkansas
Study panel wants landlords to fix properties, end retaliatory eviction.
It was a good week for gubernatorial race jockeying
It was also a good week for delaying and a tort reform battle. It was a bad week for secrecy and bookbag snatchers.
Still amazed
I am writing this with a heavy vagina, in response to the "War on Women" (Feb. 6) article.
Choices
Ten months ago my wife and I learned that she was pregnant, and we couldn't have been more excited. We made a baby budget, bought parenting books and paid careful attention to everything she ate.
Sumac to go
Jon Nichols posted this photo of a robin landing on sumac to our Eye On Arkansas Flickr group. Last week's Where in Arkansas winner was Jacob Brock, who correctly guessed our photo was taken at the grotto at Petit Jean State Park on the Seven Hollows Trail.
Columns
Today's crisis
The cover story of this issue of the Arkansas Times reminds us of another day when zealots tried to hold themselves above the law. Then it was the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that they didn't want to comply with, and the practice of racial discrimination that they sought to defend.
Decide on Medicaid already
The Republican Party, newly in charge of the Arkansas legislature, isn't wearing the crown easily.
Seeing demons
Demonize is the hot verb in political discourse these days.
The case for taxes
An old friend who worked harder and smarter than I did in my fecund years and has much more to show for it treated me to lunch and upbraided me in what I thought was an unusually gentlemanly way for having thrown my lot with the utopian socialist Barack Obama.
On black history
If you're going to devote an entire month to appreciating the history of a color, it might as well be the color black.
NW Arkansas's turn for gubernatorial candidate?
Community leaders in Northwest Arkansas are quite conscious that, despite its growing economic power and population, the region has yet to elect one of its own as governor in the contemporary era.
In defense of cats
Sitting on my front porch a while back, I was watching two bald eagles perched on a cypress limb overlooking the bayou while hummingbirds swooped and buzzed around my ears — an everyday event around here in summer. Struck by simultaneous sightings of the largest and smallest birds in North America, I wondered if I was in danger of becoming a Bird Nut.
Entertainment
Revolutioners in the air
Little Rock quintet wins on showmanship, hard rockin' riffs.
Jimbo Mathus at White Water Tavern
Also, Winston Family Orchestra at White Water, the 18th Annual Custom Knife Show at Robinson Center Exhibition Hall, Suzanne Vega at Juanita's, Lacuna Coil and Sevendust at Revolution, Mushroomhead at Juanita's and Old 97's at Revolution
The Dirty Heads at Juanita's
Also, "Project 1927: The Lynching of John Carter" at Mosaic Templars Cultural Center.
One road win a year for Hogs
At some point during or after the telecast of Arkansas's listless, unspeakably awful performance Saturday at Vanderbilt, one of the commentators who had to make smirking reference to the production as the "SEC Game of the Week" unleashed this tidbit: The Razorbacks have won 12 SEC road games in the last 10 years.
Flat, rote and dopey
'Identity Thief' steals McCarthy's comedic talent.
Dining
Great sandwiches, pasta at the Milford Track
It's a trek, but well worth it.
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