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Re: Monday line
- UAMS is violating FOIA statutes or at least the Chancellor is....but he has good shoes
- Posted by joanimal
- on June 18, 2013
Re: Monday line
- Best line of the day, hell it ought to be our new national motto:
  
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- Posted by DeathbyInches
- on June 18, 2013
Re: UAMS' poses alternative to St. Vincent collaboration
- UAMS is violating the FOIA statute by not producing documents which the Chancellor himself identified…
- Posted by joanimal
- on June 18, 2013

Judge Griffen reports on recuperation from bike accident

Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen, injured in a bicycle accident last week near his home, sent me an update this morning from his iPad.
Will Dawna Natzke's killer ever be brought to justice?

More than a year and a half later, the murder of a Hot Springs Village police dispatcher still has residents puzzled.
DCC director called in to Beebe office: UPDATE

Gov. Mike Beebe summoned Department of Community Corrections Director David Eberhard to his office this morning after an Arkansas Democrat-Gazette story outlined the outrageous failure, with tragic results, to jail felon and parole absconder Darrell Dennis, who is being held in the May 10 kidnapping and murder of an 18-year-old Fayetteville man.

Mike Huckabee's $3 million home

Mike Huckabee, who left Arkansas, where he built the platform for his media success and which, incidentally, has an income tax, is putting down expensive roots in a beach development in Walton County, Fla., east of Destin — a $3 million home.
The Damien I Know - The Architect and the Inmate

Public for the first time, the woman who married Damien Echols discusses their relationship
A long way to fall

Fort Smith police and federal agents investigate Ron Fields, once one of Arkansas’s most distinguished prosecuting attorneys
John Rogers owns more photos than anyone, anywhere

Over the past three years, his Rogers Photo Archive in North Little Rock has been on a buying spree, purchasing the vast photo morgues of 11 great (and greatly cash-strapped) American newspapers, including the Chicago Sun-Times, The Denver Post, the Boston Herald and The Detroit News.
Diamond Bear brewery moving to NLR

As expected, the Diamond Bear craft brewery is pulling up stakes in Little Rock and moving to North Little Rock.