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It was a good week for expansion
It was also a good week for Walter Hussman, the ascendancy of Jason Rapert and Reynie Rutledge. It was a bad week for women and minimum wage earners.
Bills would limit humane-society activities in Arkansas
After years of contention, the legislature four years ago approved a new law against cruelty to animals, strengthening the penalties for offenders and bringing Arkansas more in line with other states on this issue.
Where in Arkansas, March
Know where this slice of life in Arkansas is? Send along the answer to Times photographer Brian Chilson and win a prize. Once a month in this space, we'll post a shot from a relatively obscure spot in Arkansas for Times readers to identify. We also invite photographers to contribute submissions of both mystery and other pictures to our eyeonarkansas Flickr group. Write to brianchilson@arktimes.com to guess this week's photo or for more information.
Expansion FAQ
Last week, Gov. Mike Beebe announced that the feds have given Arkansas permission to pursue a unique plan for expanding health coverage, turning the Medicaid expansion debate upside down. Here's your one-stop shop for the basics on the game-changing, name-changing Arkansas healthcare deal
Arkansas's working poor are hoping the state says yes to expansion
Health care reform in general, and Medicaid expansion in particular, is a complicated issue. There are a lot of moving parts. A lot of numbers, a lot of projections. But it's important to remember that this is an issue that has a real impact on real people
'Robin Hood in reverse'
The recent budget cuts prove that Regressives are so out of touch with the people that they will sacrifice us for their pig-headed principles.
Born free
Strolling through the River Market in the dawn toward the desk the other day, The Observer saw it lying in the street in front of the Main Library: a rain-colored brassiere, adorned with a spray of tiny crystals.
Arkansas hospitals feel pinch of uncompensated care
In states like Arkansas, where many Republican lawmakers campaigned on an anti-Obama-care platform, hospitals are worried about harmful cuts in service — and even fear for their survival — if the legislature says no to expansion of coverage.
Arkansas doctors explain importance of expanding insurance coverage
Arkansas is an unhealthy state, with mortality rates higher across the board than the nation's.
Columns
Alias Kolkata
Whose hole is the blackest?
A civil rights sequel
Maybe you read the article here about the battle to integrate the state Capitol cafeteria. That was in 1964. These days, we shake our heads at state officials who believed, even then, that a public facility inside the state Capitol could stay segregated forever.
Lyons: Centrist enablers
Republican strategy during the sequestration fight depends upon two political givens: widespread public ignorance, and the extreme reluctance of the traditional Washington news media to exhibit "liberal bias" by stressing inconvenient facts.
Pound foolish
You didn't need to be a psychic to anticipate that a consultant hired by two institutions that want to merge would conclude that merger is highly desirable.
Cheer the exchange, lament the higher cost
If you followed the tumult over implementing the part of health insurance reform that covers Arkansas's poor working people, the big Republican victory last week must have you fighting contrary impulses, whether to weep or cheer.
Entertainment
Water Liars at White Water Tavern
Also, the Arkansas High School Basketball Championships at Barton, the Blues Revolution Tour at Stickyz, "Challenging the Politics of (In)visibility: Modern Mutual Aid Societies, Womanist Politics, and Global Funkstress Janelle Monae" at Philander Smith, the Bard Ball at the Argenta Community Theater, Mainland Divide at Downtown Music and Clutch at Juanita's.
A voyage to 'Treasure Island'
Arkansas Rep premieres new musical based on the classic tale.
'Jack' doesn't slay
It's an across the board failure.
FOCAL used book sale returns
Also, Mountain Sprout at Stickyz.
Mike Anderson and the long game
Whenever this aggravating 2012-13 basketball campaign finally goes into the annals, regardless of the manner in which it concludes, a handful of head-scratching performances will be at the locus of the reflective discussion: Shoulda beaten South Carolina, Vandy, Alabama, etc. In a season of 30 games, give or take a few, the Hogs are most likely NIT-bound instead of NCAA-bound because of about three or four losses that still seem absurd weeks after the fact.
The Sound of the Mountain wins it all
Russellville band takes Times Musicians Showcase.
Dining
Fishboat does fish sandwich right
Mouthful of a name, menu.
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