February 8, 2012
The story of a (largely) forgotten game designer from Arkansas. /more/
February 1, 2012
It helped desegregate LR.
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January 25, 2012
Police and other experts say some of our laws on sex offenders may be doing more harm than good.
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January 25, 2012
An offender and his victim struggle together with the realities of registration.
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February 8, 2012
January 25, 2012
February 8, 2012
The Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department has released preliminary design ideas for a replacement for the Broadway Bridge.
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January 25, 2012
According to an anonymous "prominent Republican" quoted in Politico, Mike Huckabee almost ran for president in 2012 just to beat Mitt Romney. There was no love lost between the candidates during the 2008 race, with Romney sending out a mailer suggesting Huckabee was soft on punishing meth offenses and the death penalty and Huckabee calling out Romney for not having hunting bona fides, not being able to eat fried chicken correctly, for his religion ("Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?" he told the New York Times Magazine) and, perhaps most memorably, for his time at Bain Capital ("I want to be a president who reminds you of the guy you work with, not the guy who laid you off.").
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February 8, 2012
Too "unusual" to appraise, bank says.
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February 1, 2012
Andi Davis says she's a victim of judicial harassment.
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January 25, 2012
Fed up with crime, neighbors rescue Hindman.
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February 8, 2012
Bobby Roberts, director of the Central Arkansas Library System, promised openness about the details of the campaign for a library property-tax proposal on the ballot March 13.
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February 8, 2012
The Observer had the bright idea recently to take our beloved to a popular local eatery for a "let someone else cook" night out. After a longer than usual wait, we were seated at a table in clear view of a large, attractive fish tank filled with colorful tropical fish.
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February 1, 2012
The Observer went down to England, Ark., the other day to watch some people try to find a body.
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January 25, 2012
One of the greatest gifts bestowed upon The Observer during our secretive, moonlit coronation at La Petite Roche down below the Junction Bridge some years back — with the mayor and the governor and a certain magical, wish-granting catfish in attendance — was the power and right to eavesdrop on any citizen of Central Arkansas within our earshot, anywhere, at any time.
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February 8, 2012
Also a good week for crushed hopes riding on the shoulders of a teen-ager and a new low. It was a bad week for Rep. John Burris, Rep. Justin Harris and government transparency.
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February 8, 2012
I rarely find my politics aligned with his on national matters, but I'm finding myself following Max Brantley's columns much more closely when it comes to local matters. I recently decided to begin writing various organizations and representatives both local and federal in order to determine why the veteran center is opposed.
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February 1, 2012
Last August, Comcast introduced Internet Essentials, a program Comcast executive vice president David L. Cohen said would "help level the playing field for low-income families."
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February 8, 2012
It's hard to criticize Sen. John Boozman for supporting congressional term limits, when he is himself walking proof that some people don't belong in public office.
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February 8, 2012
Last week brought some hopeful developments on the political front in a state that Gallup says has risen to be the sixth most-conservative in the country.
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February 8, 2012
It is beginning to look like we will not have in 2012 one of those rare presidential races where the icons of the great tectonic movements in politics face off at Armageddon.
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February 8, 2012
Arkansas has obsessed on national rankings — and not just in football — since Gov. Charles Brough traveled the country making his "Wonders of Arkansas" chautauqua speech nearly 100 years ago.
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February 8, 2012
"Mitt Romney Glittered at Minnesota Rally"
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February 8, 2012
After being elected in large part because he'd opposed a "dumb" war in Iraq, President Obama finds himself confronting an even dumber one in Iran. Exponentially dumber, actually.
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February 1, 2012
To the extent that he ever believed much, if any, of his own soaring rhetoric about a transformative, post-partisan presidency during the 2008 campaign, President Obama would have to be judged a failure.
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January 25, 2012
Look, nobody's third wife is going to be First Lady. In the privacy of the voting booth, American women won't stand for it.
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