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Ready for Riverfest
Good times start rolling Friday.
Clinton School, all over the map
Nearly every first-year Clinton School for Public Service student will spend this summer working on an International Public Service Project.
Sister who opposed Faubus dies
Bonnie Lou Faubus Salcido publicly called out her brother for blocking the integration of Central High.
Riverfest fast facts
Riverfest 2013 three-day discounted tickets will be available at select Walgreen's locations around the state. These tickets will be sold for $17.50 (while supplies last). Admission at the gates is $35 for a three-day pass, cash only. Online tickets can be purchased for $30.
Live entertainment schedule
The Riverfest calendar.
Clinton School partners with school to heal Uganda's wounds
Students work with former child soldier Okello Sam at his school and community outreach project Hope North.
Party comes first for Griffin
I just received an email survey from Tim Griffin a couple of days ago wanting my opinion concerning the handling of the Benghazi attack by the Obama administration. The survey comes complete with a video in case I'm not already "appalled" with the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton. I'm quite frankly sick of Tim Griffin's attempt at acting like he is working in the best interest of Americans.
It was a good week for a woman's right to an abortion
Also a good week for adjournment sine die, the Republican Party, attention to a hog farm permit in the Buffalo River Watershed. It was a bad week for Treasurer Martha Shoffner.
Buggy
The Observer was coming out of a department store in North Little Rock last Saturday when we saw him. The guy, who had exited the store just before us, had purchased a can of bug spray, and as The Observer and Spouse walked past in the parking lot, he proceeded to uncap said bug spray and then douse himself in the stuff, writhing around in a dense cloud of chemicals, trying to hose down every square inch of his body while looking as if he was doing an interpretive dance.
Fire
Firefighters battle a blaze that broke out not long after midnight last Thursday at the Forest Place apartments on North University Avenue. A cause has still not been determined.
Columns
The crash of Martha Shoffner
My overriding emotion about the fate of state Treasurer Martha Shoffner is sadness.
Misquoted
There's embarrassment in the young gubernatorial campaign of state Rep. Debra Hobbs of Rogers. Announcing her candidacy last week, Representative Hobbs said "I feel like this is what God wants me to do." But sources close to God say that He gave her no encouragement and was at most indifferent to her campaign.
Say goodbye
It's kind of piling on, admittedly, but we feel compelled to join the call for state Treasurer Martha Shoffner to resign. Awkwardly compelled, that is. She has not yet been convicted of the criminal charges filed against her, and that's an important point. The presumption of innocence has not been repealed.
Still ripe for reform in Arkansas?
Last February, the Arkansas Public Policy Panel and Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation released a report I authored titled "Ripe for Reform: Arkansas as a Model for Social Change."
Syrian war: Iraq redux
Americans are instinctively wiser than their leaders when it comes to foreign policy, at least until their emotions are manipulated to support mindless war.
Three non-scandals
Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when every jackleg news organization in Washington — that is, virtually all of them — was feeding out of Kenneth Starr's soft little hand like a Shetland pony.
Mexican streak
From "Kearny's March: The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846-1847" by Winston Groom.
Entertainment
Stickyz Stage moves to the east side
After a couple of years of local and rising national acts playing in the Stickyz Music Tent underneath the Broadway Bridge, the venue-within-a-venue will make a move east this year from the tent to an outdoor stage near the Clinton Presidential Center.
Mary Gauthier at White Water Tavern
Also, Flowing on the River at the River Market Pavilions, Mad Nomad at White Water Tavern, 7th Street Underground Festival, Collective Soul at the Timberwood Amphitheater and 'Clockwork Orange' at Vino's.
Little Rock Film Festival's downtown debut a success
If anyone was skeptical of the Little Rock Film Festival's move away from a cineplex in Riverdale to downtown Little Rock and North Little Rock, surely their doubts were assuaged after this year's fest.
More aliens!
New 'Star Trek' needs more space travel, but is otherwise a blast.
'Steel Magnolias' at Murry's
And the May Festival of Arts in Eureka.
Dining
Slide into Slim Chickens
Arkansas-born Slim Chickens does wings and tenders fresh and fast.
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