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Riverfest schedule

May 23, 2012

From Schoolboy Humor to Snoop Dogg. /more/

Treacherous intersections in Saline County

May 16, 2012

by David Koon and Rafael Nunez

For undocumented Latinos, the consequences of a traffic stop can be dire — including deportation. Many of them say they're being pulled over for flimsy reasons and then taken to jail. We look at the numbers. /more/

The numbers

May 16, 2012

Police agencies in Saline County deny claims they are racially profiling, but a survey of 2011 jail records seems to indicate otherwise. /more/

Eye on Arkansas

Cuffed

May 23, 2012

by Brian Chilson

Occupy Little Rock spokesman Greg Deckelman was arrested along with three others last Wednesday when they refused to leave the parking lot at Fourth and Ferry Streets that had been home to the Occupy Little Rock camp before their camping permit from the city had expired. Deckelman has said he'll file a civil rights lawsuit. /more/

Light up the night

May 16, 2012

The Big Picture

Ask the Times: What's the deal with personalized license plates?

May 23, 2012

I was at the state revenue office in Springdale getting a driver-license renewal. I saw a framed poster on the wall promoting the sale of the "Choose Life" license plate. There was only one other such poster on the wall in the entire place, one promoting the sale of so-called wildlife plates that benefit the Game and Fish Commission and the hunting industry. /more/

The rising damp

May 16, 2012

Mostly dry for many years, Arkansas grows steadily wetter. At the 2010 general election, two more counties (Boone and Clark) approved the sale of alcoholic beverages, and petition drives to put the wet-dry issue on the ballot this year are currently underway in two more counties (Benton and Madison). /more/

Arkansas Reporter

Clinton man's death puts spotlight on EMT woes

May 23, 2012

by Leslie Newell Peacock

The death of former City Attorney Brett Blakney of Clinton May 4 for lack of transportation to a major trauma center played out against a history of legal battles in Clinton and Van Buren County over ambulance service. /more/

Mi casa es su casa

May 16, 2012

by David Koon

A place for Latinos in Levy. /more/

The Insider

Hit and run

May 23, 2012

Hours before primary election day, an e-mail began circulating in the business community with an attached flyer urging people not to sign petitions for an initiated act to strengthen Arkansas ethics law. /more/

The Observer

The fall of Fourth and Ferry

May 23, 2012

The Observer headed out to the Occupy Little Rock camp at Fourth and Ferry last Thursday for the last time. It was the deadline, the last day, the Big Adios. /more/

Chickenness

May 16, 2012

The Observer made it over to Memphis last weekend, that big, much-admired city of our weekend jaunts and Beale Street haunts. /more/

The Week That Was

Good week for a big screen

May 23, 2012

Also a good week for a smear campaign. It was a bad week for Jermain Taylor, Circuit Judge Sam Pope and the Arkansas Times. /more/

Letters

Thanks

May 23, 2012

What can we say about your 20 impressive years? You have defied the odds, and kept a much-needed balance of news, business and social reporting alive in our beloved state. /more/

Media

Nonprofits paying reporters

May 16, 2012

by Doug Smith

It's a new news game. /more/

Editorials

Liberty attacked

May 23, 2012

"Rick Santorum has now said openly that he doesn't believe in the separation of church and state. He doesn't believe, in other words, that Americans should have the freedom to pick their own religion or to have no religion at all, and as president, he'll try to put a stop to it, the hell with the First Amendment." /more/

Max Brantley

A sit-in to re-Occupy LR

May 23, 2012

by Max Brantley

Robert Johnston, the former state legislator and Public Service Commission member and full-time advocate for peace, the homeless and pedestrian safety, among other causes, has an idea. /more/

Ernest Dumas

Dumas: Romney may rue Bush involvement

May 23, 2012

by Ernest Dumas

You can appreciate Mitt Romney's dilemma. The economy is supposed to be the win-or-lose issue in the presidential election, and your advantage is that voters tend to forget fairly soon how the bad times started and instead blame the man who inherited them. But how do you avoid triggering inconvenient memories? /more/

Bob Lancaster

Don't worry. Be happy.

May 23, 2012

by Bob Lancaster

Oh, yeah, the big crash is coming. And don't doubt when we go down, insufferably vain species that we are, we'll take the creation with us. /more/

Words

A strange Peace

May 23, 2012

by Doug Smith

"A pregnant woman was killed by her husband and her unborn child was life-flighted to a Little Rock hospital Tuesday, Fort Smith police said." /more/

Gene Lyons

Corporations cry foul

May 23, 2012

by Gene Lyons

Corporations are people too, and people get their feelings hurt. What's more, the richer they are these days, the more sensitive they seem to be. It's reminiscent of that Hans Christian Anderson story of the "Princess and the Pea." You know, where the tender young virgin is so delicate that a single pea hidden under seven feather mattresses keeps her awake all night. That's how the prince satisfies himself that she's a real aristocrat. /more/

The politics of Obama's pronouncement

May 16, 2012

by Gene Lyons

Now that the exultation over President Obama's symbolic gesture in favor of gay marriage has subsided, is it possible to ask exactly what he's done? Politically speaking, I mean. He's a politician, after all, not a moral philosopher. /more/

Columnists

Max Brantley

A sit-in to re-Occupy LR

Robert Johnston, the former state legislator and Public Service Commission member and full-time advocate for peace, the homeless and pedestrian safety, among other causes, has an idea. /more/

Ernest Dumas

Dumas: Romney may rue Bush involvement

Bob Lancaster

Don't worry. Be happy.

Oh, yeah, the big crash is coming. And don't doubt when we go down, insufferably vain species that we are, we'll take the creation with us. /more/

Gene Lyons

Corporations cry foul

Arkansas Blog

Another Saturday night

So far, quiet. The line is open.

Police report slaying downtown

A fatal shooting near 6th and Louisiana about 1:15 a.m. today after a fight in a nearby club.

BREAKING: Mayor Stodola supports petitioners

Mayor Mark Stodola has responded to my e-mail last night about threats to arrest petitioners on city streets outside the Riverfest grounds.

Rock Candy

Tonight: A remembrance for Victor Wiley

Just got word from Wes Broadstone about a cool show tonight at Dedicated. It's in remembrance of the late, great Victor Wiley, Little Rock's sui generis artist, activist, musician, dancer and guy who threw glitter all over everybody.

Here's a track from the forthcoming album by The Alpha Ray

The Alpha Ray will release its debut album this fall on Thick Syrup Records.

The dude from 'Twilight' is making a movie about 'The Band'

Robert Pattinson, the actor who plays sparkly, emasculated vampire Edward Cullen in the "Twilight" series, has told the magazine Les Rockuptibles that one of the projects he'll be taking on in coming months is a film about "The Band."

Eat Arkansas

All-new menu at Juanita's

Leo Delgado, who took over as chef at Juanita's three months ago, plans roll out an improved menu to the public next week.

The latest pop in the F'ville beer boom

Fayetteville Flyer reports on the newest entry in Fayetteville's burgeoning craft-beer scene: Fossil Cove Brewing Co., a new brewery which is scheduled to open June 2 at 1946 N. Birch in Fayetteville.

According to Michael Pollan, Greenhouse Grille "gets it"

Food celeb Michael Pollan says that Fayetteville's Greenhouse Grille "gets it."

Eye Candy

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