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Deadline met
This was the scene outside the clerk's office Monday, the last day for legislators to file bills.
Ledge-ends of the game
Members of the Arkansas General Assembly will move from zoning to zone defense, from co-sponsoring to double-teaming, from ... OK, we'll stop. It's the first annual Arkansas Legislative Hoops For Kids' Sake Game, pitting the House versus the Senate!
God done it
We get a lot of tips here in the office — good tips, bad tips, tips that turn out to be the truth even though you would have bet a dollar to a dogtick there was no way that could be true. Tips are the lifeblood of a news-gathering organization, along with coffee in the morning, tea in the afternoon and hard liquor after quittin' time.
Arkansas lawmaker tries to ban tattoo-shop practices
Though Sen. Missy Irvin (R-Mountain View) is a staunch advocate of small government, she has sponsored a bill banning certain body modification practices, leading some artists and consumers to complain that the legislation would restrict their freedom to make adult choices.
Humans should be more humane
We thought things would be different. After years of fighting for the basic rights of "pets" in 2009 we finally reached a positive outcome when the felony animal cruelty bill was signed into law.
Impending tunes
George Strait, Fleetwood Mac, Wakarusa and more.
It was a good week for undocumented students
It was also a good week for Bill Clinton. It was a bad week for women, an escape, voter suppression and Weiner High School.
Rep expects bipartisan support for his 'tech privacy' package
State Rep. Nate Steel (D-Nashville) is concerned about the potential abuse of electronic intelligence gathering.
Films in bloom
LR, Ozark film festivals highlight in spring.
Rembrandt himself, in Arkansas
The Arts Center lands "Treasures of Kenwood House."
In with the new
Big, poppy Broadway fare highlights the spring theater season.
Spring arts calendar
Music, theater and more.
Columns
The people rule: looking ahead to 2014 initiated acts
Last week, a proposal by state Rep. Butch Wilkins (D-Bono) to raise the state's minimum wage was easily, and unsurprisingly, defeated in a House committee. However, thanks to Arkansas's initiative process, Arkansas voters may yet see the proposal again in the fall of 2014.
More madness: ledge's gun bills
What do you call it when political leaders respond to what the public perceives as a crisis, like rising magnitudes of gun slaughter, by taking steps that fly in the face of reason, law and history?
Broken health care system
Sometimes the best journalism explains what's right under our noses. In Steven Brill's exhaustive Time magazine cover article "Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us," it's the staggeringly expensive, grotesquely inefficient and inhumane way Americans pay for medical care.
All boots on deck
"True, the turbulent nomination has wounded Hagel ... But he will eventually emerge stronger than ever. He already has authority with soldiers, having himself had his 'boots on the ground.' "
Silhouettes
It seems early in the election cycle for scary political ads, but the reckless rich love the smell of money in the morning — or any other time — and nobody's richer and more reckless than the members of the "Club for Growth," a special-interest PAC now filling Arkansas airwaves with spooky messages about a black president and a member of Congress alleged to have been civil to him.
Pro-real-life
During the summer of 2005 I taught a religion and politics seminar at our regional camp for Jewish youth. In my class were nine teen-agers from across the South.
Distinctions
Arkansas has the diamonds, and now we seem to be acquiring a reputation as the state most resistant to the requirements of the U.S. Constitution.
Entertainment
Willie Nelson in El Dorado
And Gwendlyn Kay at Denton's.
Time for Valley of the Vapors
Independent Music Festival enters ninth year.
Hogs on the verge of 20 wins
This edition of Pearls will have scarcely nestled into newstands when the Arkansas Razorbacks try to pull off a minor miracle in the SEC tournament, starting with a game against Vanderbilt Thursday evening.
'UK Dub Break' at Revolution
Also, the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra at Robinson, Cody Belew at Beebe High School, Se7en Sharp at Cornerston, Bernie Worrell Orchestra at Revolution, the First Ever 10th Annual World's Shortest St. Patrick's Day Parade.
Befuddled
Video-game-style gunplay almost does in 'Dead Man Down.'
Dining
Main Street Caribbean
Montego Cafe offers winning Jamaican fare.
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