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Sunday, December 31, 2006 - 18:05:48
Slouching toward 2007
I've been dogging it today, in part to do some cooking.
U.S. military deaths have reached 3,000 in Ira (Iraqi deaths are in the tens of thousands). The Democrat-Gazette says three more homicides have been reported in Pulaski County today. The Coalition of Little Rock Neighborhoods is still raising heck about City Hall insider review of the Advertising and Promotion Commission and about the resistance to using A&P funds for parks (thus relieving pressure on the general fund) even as the city moves to transfer some funding responsibility for the Riverfront Park amphitheater to A&P.
And speaking of city government. You are invited to the swearing-in tomorrow of LR city officers -- 9 a.m. at City Hall with a 10 a.m. reception to follow at the Arkansas Arts Center.
News scoop: Incoming Mayor Mark Stodola tells our reporter David Koon that he likely will NOT take a seat on the Advertising and Promotion Commission, given the obvious complications that have arisen. He will be able to appoint someone instead.
You are invited, also, to contribute to another open line.
Slouching toward 2007
I've been dogging it today, in part to do some cooking. But the world grinds on.
U.S. military deaths have reached 3,000 in Ira (Iraqi deaths are in the tens of thousands). The Democrat-Gazette says three more homicides have been reported in Pulaski County today. The Coalition of Little Rock Neighborhoods is still raising heck about City Hall insider review of the Advertising and Promotion Commission and about the resistance to using A&P funds for parks (thus relieving pressure on the general fund) even as the city moves to transfer some funding responsibility for the Riverfront Park amphitheater to A&P.
And speaking of city government. You are invited to the swearing-in tomorrow of LR city officers -- 9 a.m. at City Hall with a 10 a.m. reception to follow at the Arkansas Arts Center.
News scoop: Incoming Mayor Mark Stodola tells our reporter David Koon that he likely will NOT take a seat on the Advertising and Promotion Commission, given the obvious complications that have arisen. He will be able to appoint someone instead.
You are invited, also, to contribute to another open line.
The gentlemen from Grubbs and Slovak
Doug Thompson of Stephens Media contributes profiles of Senate and House leaders Jack Critcher and Benny Petrus, now big-city boys from Batesville and Stuttgart, but both with smaller town backgrounds on their resumes.The Bubba Awards
Brummett reviews the year in Arkansas politics, good and bad, and even includes a kind mention of the Arkansas Blog. A sign of the changing time and transitory nature of politics: Gov. Mike Huckiabee earns only a single back-handed reference, for Mike Beebe's retention of many of his department heads. Beebe, on the other hand, rates about a half-dozen mention.
Sic transit gloria big mouth.
Saturday, December 30, 2006 - 17:29:59
It's all yours
Fire away.Sharper Image
Richard Thalheimer, the Little Rock native who founded the Sharper Image gadget retailer but who's been removed as CEO, has reached a settlement worth $6 million to walk away from the company without further legal dispute. Roby Brock has the details at Talk Business.Booze news
An effort is underway in Benton County to push legislation lowering the petition requirements -- now 38 percent of registered voters -- to get an alcohol sales measure on the ballot. The level is intentionally so high as to just about make it impossible to call wet elections in dry areas. (Thank UCA president Lu Hardin for that legislation, when he was a senator in Russellville.)Breaking news
Death in the family
Not scary
TIF tiff
Is Alltel in play?
Minority majority leader
Highway program?
The Republican revolution
NLR freebies -- UPDATE
Going away presents -- UPDATE
Care and feeding
The city board meets UPDATED
Mid-afternoon report
News on DVD plant
Talking with Beebe
Blog watch
Party time
Lobby watch
Impact fees
The dogs' life
New reading
He likes Huck
Sex on Capitol Hill
Eddie Sutton at 70
Bank robbery arrests
The year in food
Reward doubled
Nazi reference II
Lobby watch
Moonie report
Triple murder in Fort Smith
Faith politics
It's all good
Stocking stuffer
From the Christmas day mailbag
How's this for a third party
Chimney watch
Stodola weighs in -- UPDATE
Compassionate conservatives
Inflating the numbers
A terrible disease
Rich stuff
Christmas party chatter
Check that
Time to slow down
Commission chair resigns -- UPDATE
You're fired
From the clubhouse
Farm welfare
The payday bloodsuckers
Budget hidey holes
Ho ho ho
An acorn of an idea
Now they want consensus
State senators forecast session
The Arkansas miracle -- more bureaucracy
Do you see what I see?
A return to Rubinomics?
Hazardous to your health
Issue ads
Heartland loses
LR school board wrangling
Arrest the payday bloodsuckers
The name game
Game of the year
Convention business
Lobby watch
The poor get poorer
Call it damp
Freedom of information
Tax relief
And speaking of sinning
Wait just a minute longer
But wait ...
For the record
The 'hospitality' business -- UPDATE
As a favor to friends
The payday bloodsuckers
Going to be a slow day
LR Advertising and Promotion
College status: at what cost?
School funding
More boots on the ground
Adios, 11 -- UPDATE
Rainy day funds
Soft landing
Hillary!
Thin skin? Flippant? Unfunny? --- UPDATE
About that grocery tax -- UPDATE
The Clinton conundrum
Wingnut cracks
Is porkfest over?
Action at the Airport
Six more years for Nutt
Blogging and the Bible
Higher ground
Death on the mountain
About that grocery tax
Half an amen for the Rev. Gov.
Parking: an alternative
Uncontrolled
Here's a dilemma
The gay wedge issue
Corporate welfare
Self-dealing
Dawn patrol
King Mike: I and II
Arkansas is for speed traps
Virginia is for politicians
Gov. Mike Huckabee's party is on
Free for all
Meet Mosi
Can't wait for the Daily Show
What you can do today
Folkways report
Details, details -- UPDATE
Gruesome
Hmmmm
Airport addenda
We don't need no stinkin' Constitution -- UPDATE
The 'pecker woods
Have they no shame?
Beebe keepers: three more
Next for Iraq: A do not call list
Would Jesus shop at Wal-Mart?
Mike Huckabee: Pluses and minuses
Changing education
Wedding bell blues
LR cynics please check
Mad about art -- UPDATE
Inaugural events announced
'Little League Parents Gone Wild'
Pork turns rancid
Some cheese with that wine?
UPDATE: Huckabee posse has 'vagizzle'
Lobby buzz
And one more sputter
The morning's outrage -- UPDATE II
Clinton-Giuliani
The Senate update
For the history books
The political center
One down -- UPDATE
Double voting
Gimmegate the epic
Street people
Here come the TIFs
Jobs for Jonesboro
Well, they let Cheney hunt, so ...
Hmmmmm
Can Hillary win Arkansas? (UPDATE)
Speaking of football
As Mustain Turns -- UPDATE
Meritorious?
Arkansas's finest
Double secret probation -- UPDATE
The book banners redux
Adios, Christina
Out of this world
When pricey is better
War is hell, ignorance is bliss
'Convert or die'
You heard it here first
Steel mill update
School rumble
Toga!
Corporate welfare
Hey big spender
Heresy
Backlash
Paron: no decision
Going vertical
Drivetime sports -- UPDATE
Vacant no more -- UPDATE
Correction
Tis the season
For the record: LRSD legal fees
The issue in 2008
The morning e-mail
Anybody out there?
Frequent flyers
And speaking of water
'Mixed bag'
Clean water
The decider
Let's spend the surplus
Open line anyone?
Government-financed religion
Up in lights
School board in retreat
The yellow peril
No good deed goes unpunished
Kicking the dog
Maureen Dowd: The Bush tragicomedy
Republicans elect a chairman -- UPDATE
Fair's fair
An open line
Five more Beebe keepers
UPDATED: Tis better to ...
Who needs Florida or California?
UPDATED: The concept for University Mall
In praise of courage
She's got game
2008 polling
No Costco
Voting news: three cheers
No preaching
Ka-ching
Open line
Too sexy for Wal-Mart -- UPDATE
Get down!
University Mall plans
J. B. Hunt dies
Credit where due
Chickenbleep
Inspirational speaker
Working man blues
The economy
Late headlines
D Mac's a contender
Huck's bucks
Teacher of the year
The Huckster speaks
And still more Northwest reporting
Notes from the Northwest
The Iraq study
Family values
That Wal-Mart departure
Hillary makes her move
'In pursuit of hot women, hard living and insane fame'
Arkansas health: Not improving
Our team in D.C.
Happy e-mail
Put on an un-smiley face
If the FBI can do this, can parents?
Seeking justice
More of the same
Shades of Kelly Bryant -- UPDATE
Flash! Iraq's a disaster
Bush gets Gored
Long-form journalism
A bit of Arkansas history
Here come the Democrats
Beebe and the Senate
Wal-Mart cutting fabrics?
Still more questions -- UPDATE
Hold the phone -- UPDATED
Doing battle for Wal-Mart
Naked came the mayor
A chance for Beebe to shine
Dances with leprechauns
The money rolls in
The men from Hope
The newspaper of the future
Image building
Two more years
Arena plans
Standing watch
School reform
Mission unaccomplished
A museum for Fort Smith
Promise keeping
Recruiters wanted
A vote for Jim Webb
Florida-bound
Chicken litter
Hillary!
Some fun today
The clueless president
Rummy's last words
File complaints here
Trouble brewing
Wal-Mart's dilemma
Legalize scalping
Beebe the populist
Kudos for Raytheon
Get ready for the weekend
Farm Bureau sez
The worst person in the world backs Huck
Three more Beebe keepers
Good press for the governor
If all the GOP candidates implode ...
The name game
We're in good hands
Overnight report
Blog problems
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