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Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 18:39:42
'The Race Beat'
NPR has an excellent (and thorough) look at the 1957 desegregation crisis in Little Rock.It recounts the roles played by the late Arkansas Gazette and the Arkansas Democrat in that crisis, with a long and educational excerpt from a new book, The Race Beat by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff.
Read . . . and learn.
Jobs v. lingerie
Talk about burying the lead. Check the news release on the jump about a coming prime-time special on Channel 11 in which the Arkansas Department of Economic Development will present -- at 9 p.m. Dec. 5 -- a report on the state's needs for high-tech and knowledge-based jobs.
The prime time is available because Channel 11 is again refusing to air the network offering, the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show (an image from the show is included for informational purposes only). Devotees of frilly underwear will have to turn to KASN 38. I'm sure most will remain riveted to the knowledge-based jobs report.
The Huckabee after-party
We told you earlier, and in this week' Insider, about Gov. Mike Huckabee's $500-per-plate (they have plenty, thank you) fund-raiser Dec. 16. It's nominally for his Hope for America PAC. It's really to pay for presidential exploratory stuff without going through the niceties of forming a presidential exploratory committee. Huck's never been much of a stickler for rules.
Anyway, there is a chance for po' folks to attend. The Huckabee kids are throwing an after-party, featuring pop's band, for only $50 per head. Hang on, Sloopy. They could go until the midnight hour.
The Republican Party is flogging the event, even though they won't be receiving a dime. Thanks for all the good work Huckabee did for the party in the recent election, I guess. Full invite on the jump.
PS -- Be sure to bring extra cash to buy the governor's new book.
Jesse Jackson in town -- the after party
From a community correspondent:
After speaking today at the Statehouse Convention Center, Jesse Jackson went back to the Clinton School of Public Service for lunch where he visited with Little Rock Niner Minnijean Brown Trickey and her daughter, Spirit; City Manager Bruce Moore and his wife, Lena; Odies Wilson of the city of Little Rock and Little Rock School Board President Dr. Katherine Mitchell. Virgil Miller, co-chairman of the Little Rock Central High 50th anniversary commission, briefed Rev. Jackson on the plans for September 2007 and invited him to attend. Students from Helena who happened to be touring the Clinton library and the Clinton school got a special treat to meet, greet and have photos made with him.
Lake View drags on
The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled 5-2 today that it would delay issuing an order ending the Lake View school case for six months. The opinion is on the jump.
Chief Justice Jim Hannah and Justice Jim Gunter dissented, continuing previous opposition to the court's ongoing involvement in the case. (Justices Corbin, Glaze, Brown, Dickey and Special Justice Dalby, replacing Justice Imber, formed the majority.) Hannah wrote that the court didn't have jurisdiction for the review of actions taken by the legislature that is contemplated in the majority's order. Gunter said the majority of the court was acting as a "brooding super-legislature."
By the legislature's own admission, it will need the 2007 legislative session to complete work on compliance with the court's order in Lake View. It's unfortunate that the Supreme Court set itself up for this messy conclusion by not giving a lower court continuing jurisdiction over the case until action was completed. But the legislature has already proved once that it cannot be trusted to act constitutionally absent the need to comply with the court's orders. The 2007 session may now proceed with the understanding that homework will be checked.
UPDATE: Comment from A.G. Mike Beebe:
“This decision, coming 24 hours before the Court’s self-imposed deadline for reissuing the mandate, is a disappointment. When it last ruled on this case in December of 2005, the Court neither ordered nor requested any further reports from the State, as Chief Justice Hannah noted in his dissenting opinion. After the completion of April’s special legislative session, the Court remained silent, expressing no concerns or dissatisfaction with the steps taken by the General Assembly. It is only after an eleventh-hour filing by a handful of districts that the Court has spoken. Without evidence in that filing of any failures in continued reform efforts by the State, the Court has nonetheless decided to defy its own previous procedures and keep this case open.”
Good works
The Clinton Foundation has brokered a deal to deliver drugs to children infected with HIV at dramatically lower costs.Oxymoron: legislative ethics
I've just moderated a discussion by a panel of legislators. I tried, but could elicit no support for legislation to end the wining and dining of legislators by lobbyists. You'd think it's impossible to talk to legislators without benefit of a cocktail. (It does help, I must admit.)
Anyway, it could be worse.
AUSTIN — A Texas official who receives any sum of cash as a gift can satisfy state disclosure laws by reporting the money simply as "currency" without specifying the amount, the Texas Ethics Commission reiterated Monday.
The 5-3 decision outraged watchdog groups and some officials who accused the commission of failing to enforce state campaign finance laws.
"What the Ethics Commission has done is legalize bribery in the state of Texas. We call on the commission to resign en masse," said Tom "Smitty" Smith, who heads Texas Citizen, an Austin-based group that advocates for campaign finance reform.
On another topic, I got a 5-0 vote from Sens. Farris, Broadway, Womack and Salmon and Sen.-elect Thompson that this legislature would vote to phase out the tax on food. I offered options of complete removal and no change.
Wal-Mart's season not so jolly
An adequate education
Hump night?
Stephanopoulos speech delayed
Survey says ...
The field is clear for Huckabee
Happy Days Are Here Again II
Arkansas students: Not ready for college work
GOP finger-pointing
Would you like a Bible with that? -- UPDATE
He builds an A-bomb; we bust his iPod
Handicapping 2008
Mark your calendar for Friday
The last king of Brinkley
The DVD edges toward extinction
Too much of a good thing
Here comes the judge
JP election
Pay raise time
Happy days are here again
Huckabee names DeLay prosecuting attorney
Hoga: anchors aweigh
Again: study impact fees
The Christian agenda
Longtime Lincoln aide switches roles
Today is Election Day
Jesse Jackson in town
The 'cowards' were right -- UPDATE
Tough call
Phony tickets
The disaster in Iraq
The Wal-Mart rule
Game and Fish complains
Gold-plated library -- UPDATE
Good news on the voucher front
Girls gone wild
Chicken-hearted regulators
Blue in the 'burbs
'I've suffered enough'
Morning has broken
Why we love Barney Frank
In our blog world
Shut up
The name game
The fabled 'Arkie Connection'?
Two from the Times
Voting problems
Ups and downs
Saturday night open line
Home schooling: the next phase
In the name of speech
Hillary v. Huck
The missing Republican base
Don't cry for appointees
Slacking
Shopping or football?
He's everywhere
Wanted: Trustworthy elections
Paddling school kids
The Decider
A barely open line
Beebe's weakness
Happy Thanksgiving
The 'L' word
Open line -- AND A WARNING
Who won the election?
Campaign 2008
Sewer impact
New judges
Majestic Hotel sold
Happy Thanksgiving, fellows
Game and Fish money -- UPDATE
Memories are made of this
'We're screwed'
The bossman's car
1957: A press watershed
Mike Huckabee: Fair or unfair?
Advice for the Republic Party
Airport Commission defers action -- UPDATE
The blue pencil deletes ...
Doubletalk express
UALR law prof's evaluations in news
Would you treat an animal this way?
Urban critters
In the name of wildlife
Science and religion
Good news
Call us the doobie bros.
Free speech for bloggers
Getting ready to run?
Surgery for Mrs. Huckabee
Conflicts in city service
Too sleazy even for Murdoch
The man in the middle
College CEOs -- UPDATE
Racial profiling
The achievement gap
Thanks John Brummett
None dare call it scalping
It's open
Pop quiz
Henry the K
Get one for YOUR car
Attn. Mike Ross
But wait just a minute
Electoral math
Gloatathon
Sour notes
Eyes on the Democrats
Bird watchers note
A lunch bucket agenda
Just say no to gifts
Another slow day
My favorite tree
High on this Hog
Our leader -- Mike Ross
Don't ever say ...
Talking politics
The line is open
Clinton Center turns 2
Remember Lake View?
Follow the rules
Gene Lyons, call your agent
Family planning, Bush-style
O.J.
Good news for Dillard's
Mike Huckabee talks politics
Bloody Benton County
It ain't called Walton College for nothin'
Payday lending
Million-dollar men
Clear Channel cloudiness
Polling recap
Important topic
But what about the Anglos?
Ross and the Blue Dogs
Gimmegate: One more day
Sports controversy
Huckathon
New hogs at the trough
C-Span after dark
Ethics loopholes
Halter names Oliver
Friendly skies
Ax the food tax
National media weigh in on Huckabee
But wait, there are more gifts for Mike Huckabee
Let me say this about Mike Huckabee's rant
Airline merger
Fancy football
Count the votes -- again
Leadership split
Late headlines -- UPDATE
Gift to the Zoo
UPDATE: The whiner-in-chief
Shooting from (for?) a quiver
NLR rate shock
Black helicopter crowd
Bloody Benton County
Advice for Gov. Beebe
Giftgate: The record
Bloody Benton County
Talking charity
GOP doings
News the Zoo can use
Memo to Andy Mayberry
Shop till you drop
A Huckabite gone
In depth: Faulkner Co.
Hillcrest district proposal
The new Democrats
New at Park Plaza
Cozy with conservatives
The new media
Here's an idea
You know you have a crummy car radio ...
Fat cats
Benton County snafu
Let the race begin -- UPDATE
Protecting the trademark
Boomtown, NW Ark.
Brummett approves
Hey, hey, ho, ho
In the neighborhood
In defense of Fartblossom
G's new spot
God gap narrows
Arkansas in the art world
The power of the purse
How to fix state GOP
Vote count blunder
One last grab for Mike Huckabee
Democrats have a party
Open line
Huckabees registered for gifts
The House is caucusing -- UPDATE
The new Riviera
The great revulsion
Janet, we have a problem
The electronic machines must go
Arkansas at the movies
LR Schools in turmoil
The religious voter
Satisfaction -- Huckabee pardons Keith Richards
Today's caption contest
Ronnel to lead Political Animals
Another high-rise UPDATE
Meet the press
Simple arithmetic
Simple answer
Allen to concede
Ed Bradley dies
The voting continues
A word from the wingnuts
The tide lifted all boats
More election analysis
The aftermath
Greatest political hits
The loyal opposition
Greens may sue for ballot access
Senate in transition
The transition team
Help for the worker
Dueling news conferences
Drink up/toke up
Deaths in LR
Cluck cluck
Ark. power gain in Congress
Message received
Before you knight Rahm
The transition
Waiting for noon and a recess appointment
Somebody help me -- UPDATE
Keep on dancing
A word of caution
Oh baby, oh baby
Little Rock election results -- UPDATED
Arkansas election results -- UPDATE
National election results
Dalys rip it
Crooked bastards, Part II
Gone to the dogs
Church and state
Too close for comfort?
Tonight's plan
Inside baseball -- UPDATE
The Huckabees vote
The diamond state
The expectations game
A final strikeout
Those final poll numbers
Corrupt bastards
Bushwacked
One last poll
Asa campaign among 10 worst
Does the country get it?
On the road with A$a
Dangerous Arkansas
Lest we forget
The gap closes -- UPDATE
The latest tactic
The issue Tuesday
Death of a mill worker
Highway 10: Problem?
Election predictions?
GameDay in Fayetteville next Sat.
The Swaggart route
Oh, never mind
Huckabee finishes
A Democratic tide
Book it: bass fishing
The quarterback controversy
Trouble with the base
Death for Saddam
Marathon man
He did have sex with that man
Early line
That's Our Dick
'Hacking Democracy'
RoboHuck
The bingo criminals
It was, too, about the Mansion
The Republicans are right
It's a good day to vote
Beebe ranks high
The bird is the word
And speaking of ethics -- UPDATE
New Youth Services scandal
Following the money -- UPDATE
Stodola has a plan -- UPDATE
Rowdy Republicans
Go green/go GOP
Huckabee lambasts his own appointee
New condos, hotel announced in River Mkt.
Another Republican hypocrite
You will be checked
Huck: No right to health care
Are we safer yet?
If you can't believe the Huck's pollster ... UPDATE
Looking up downtown
Sticking it to Huckabee
Do Democrats have a plan? UPDATE
Battling in the Third (UPDATE)
Huckabee dives into Saline Co. flap
We're insulted -- UPDATE
State income report
Is it paranoia if it's true?
On chickens . . . and counting them
Robert Novak sez ...
Mike Huckabee on Wayne Dumond
It's a lie
What a hoot
2 female anchors
It's Charlie's fault
Huck gets stuck
Kerry apologizes
With friends like these ...
Lincoln enters the fray
No sex please, we're Republicans
The Clinton rally
All Nick all the time -- UPDATE
Lost: LR Zoo barn owl
Note to Rogers Mayor Steve Womack
The race to the bottom
Another federal failure
How bad is it in Iraq?
Cry the beloved New Orleans
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