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Obamacare is working

Remember when Republicans said President Obama's health care reform legislation would harm Medicare insurance choice?
- by Max Brantley
- Feb 1, 2012

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Re: Conservationists call for Buffalo protection on river, hog farm tour
- What an odd title for a post which clearly states Cargill and the Farm Bureau…
- Posted by Eureka Springs
- on May 21, 2013
Re: Conservationists call for Buffalo protection on river, hog farm tour
- What kind of a corporate citizen do you have to be to keep you hog…
- Posted by FullThrottle
- on May 21, 2013
Re: Greek week continues: Little Greek Restaurant UPDATE
- How is this going to affect Istanbul, just 4 doors down? I'm really not all…
- Posted by abbie
- on May 21, 2013

Sources identify Steele Stephens as informant in Shoffner case

I hinted earlier that evidence was mounting that the securities salesman who provided confidential information to the FBI was Steele Stephens, the broker who began enjoying a huge share of Treasurer Martha Shoffner's bond business in 2010.
Stormy morning: Shoffner, hospitals, abortion

A morning report as Arkansas watches the stormy skies: * THE STATE TREASURER WATCH: Can Martha Shoffner really return to work today as state treasurer, overseeing billions in state investments, after admitting to FBI agents that she wrongfully accepted a pie stuffed with a cash kickback from a securities salesman she inordinately favored with state business?
Will Tom Cotton help Oklahoma or hold it hostage to ideology?

Here's a list of the Republicans who voted against disaster aid for areas hit by Hurricane Sandy.
An A for E's Bistro

Fine dining at bargain prices.
The piegate open line

Weird day. I've been consumed with Martha Shoffner's favorite pie.

The Damien I Know - The Architect and the Inmate

Public for the first time, the woman who married Damien Echols discusses their relationship
Make a pilgrimage to Pho Vietnam in Fort Smith

For the vegetarian banh mi sandwich.
'A Loss of Roses' a stunner

Before last Friday night, the saddest, most "depressing" Depression-era story I had read was Horace McCoy's "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" However, after watching The Arkansas Repertory Theatre's opening performance of William Inge's "A Loss of Roses," I can attest that this play is as rough and unflinching as that Depression-era tale, or any other.
TV producer Bryant Huddleston disinvited as Imboden Ark., high school graduation speaker because he's gay

Our news partner Channel 4 has a news story that deserves repetition in full. More national headlines for the small people of Arkansas should follow directly.
Loy Mauch update: The Republican rep is on record on slavery, too

Perhaps U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin might want to reconsider his earlier decision not to include Republican Rep. Loy Mauch on the list of Republican candidates he'd asked not to use his campaign contributions, having read some of what they'd written.