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Re: Historic Preservation Alliance's 2013 list of endangered structures
- I am curious about the selection of Park Hill Elementary? I'm sure folks who attended…
- Posted by Hombre
- on May 23, 2013
Re: Gus's Fried Chicken lives up to the hype
- It's their first day fully open, and there were people lined up down the street…
- Posted by Michael Roberts
- on May 23, 2013
Re: UPDATE: University of Arkansas Board votes to keep guns off campuses
- Charlie carried the NRA's water... what he was paid to do.
- Posted by JB
- on May 23, 2013

Tom Cotton's attack on the Constitution

Several people sent links this morning to yet another odd performance by U.S. Rep. Tom Cotton, already distinguished by his opposition to replenishing to country's disaster aid money unless it can be taken out of some other recipient's hide.
Little Rock: Very religious, also fond of pornography

The Little Rock metropolitan area (which includes Conway, Sen. Rapert) is a place with a rich and deep religious tradition.
Gus's Fried Chicken lives up to the hype

Gus's in the River Market brings incredible chicken to Little Rock.
Democrats go after Cotton for trying to criminalize family relationship

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is going after expected Republican Senate candidate Tom Cotton over his wacky idea to automatically punish relatives of people who violate sanctions on Iran.
Supreme Court says 1979 Cornish hen theft makes sheriff ineligible to serve

The Arkansas Supreme Court today reversed a lower court and said Searcy County Sheriff and Collector Kenny Cassell's 1979 conviction on a federal misdemeanor theft charge for stealing Cornish hens from a Tyson's interstate shipment made him ineligible to hold office.

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.