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Monday, April 30, 2007 - 16:40:42
Will this appear in Ark. Dem-Gaz?
Gov. Jon S. Corzine apologized to New Jersey residents Monday as he left the hospital 18 days after a devastating car crash in which he
was not wearing a seat belt andwas riding in a car traveling at more than 91 miles an hour on the Garden State Parkway.
“I set a very bad example,” said a contriteMr. Corzine, who broke his left femur and 11 ribs in the accident, [was] speaking from a wheelchair just outside Cooper University Hospital in Camden, N.J.
Corzine apparently doesn't know that it is editorializing to suggest that failure to wear a seat belt can contribute to injuries and death. My editing shows D-G copy editors where to begin the cuts to make this story conform to Griffin Smith's orders.
UPDATE: The earth moves. In a brief In the News item in the D-G, Corzine is quoted as apologizing for not wearing a seat belt.
Brooks puts LR back in federal court
Little Rock School Superintendent Roy Brooks has sued School Board President Katherine Mitchell for her letter to nine administrators last week saying they might not have jobs next year. He interprets part of that letter -- as we already have -- as an intimidation of potential witnesses in his firing case and thus a violation of his due process rights in a coming proceeding over his firing. Read that letter on the jump of this item. The suit also named Board member Michael Daugherty, who told Channel 4 over the weekend that he'd been apprised by Mitchell of her plans to send the letter.
Brooks said Mitchell won't give him a fair hearing, regardless of facts, and he also alleged that she had violated the Freedom of Information Act by speaking about the matter with Daugherty. Brooks asks that Mitchell and Daugherty be removed from any further board actions concerning his employment.
Is this ironic or what? The man who saved us from federal court is using a federal court to attempt to disable a democratically elected school board. He should be superintendent for life, I guess, regardless of the wishes of elected representatives. I guess he'd have the court set his pay, too.
We've said before, we say again and we'll say again in a column this week: The decision to fire Brooks rather than buy him out is a terrible mistake on the part of the board majority. If successful -- a big if -- firing could save some money in payment to Brooks, but it clearly will produce untold new legal fees, more divisiveness and a front-page battle for months to come. Brooks' judgment in suing two members of the School Board is suspect, too. Particularly for a man who's claimed credit for "getting Little Rock out of court." Is there really any doubt now that his superintendency is unsalvageable? The only unanswered question is how much he should be paid to go.
UPDATE: Brooks got the letter containing the school board majority's specific charges against him today. He's said to be prepared to release it after a review. We've requested a copy if he does choose to release it today. We don't know yet if he's received notice of the board vote last Thursday to suspend him on an emergency basis.
Bye bye Rodham
Says here that Hillary! will henceforth be Hillary Clinton, not Hillary Rodham Clinton, for presidential campaign purposes.Wounded Knee to film
The late Dee Brown's masterwork, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," is going to get a film treatment on HBO. Check our Moviegoer blog for details.
UPDATE: And Little Rocking covers "September Dawn," another movie with an Arkansas angle, this one about the 1857 slaughter of an Arkansas party heading to California.
Lawsuit threat brings job backlash
Stop the presses. We have kind words to offer for Tim Griffin, interim
The replacement appears to be a speedy reaction to the news reported here Saturday – that Govar had sent a threatening e-mail to Garrick Feldman, editor and publisher of the Leader newspaper in Jacksonville, over a column Feldman had written about Govar’s testimony in the prosecution of former Lonoke police chief Jay Campbell. Feldman’s column was skeptical about Govar’s testimony that he wasn’t aware he was the beneficiary of prohibited inmate labor on a work crew
Feldman believed – correctly we think – that his column was not libelous and that Govar’s response was meant to intimidate him. We reported Saturday that Feldman had been unhappy with
Bush doctrine
Brummett beholds the Bush administration. It's disastrously interventionist when it comes to foreign policy. But it takes a hands-off approach when the subject is a safe workplace.Deja vu all over again
Yes, that's the legislature back in town. Supposedly for a little cleanup today and tomorrow, primarily to enable a little pork that wasn't carefully crafted enough to pass gubernatorial muster the last go-round. Lobbyists will get to unlimber their plastic tonight one more time.Perusing the documents
The D.C. madam
Lower the drinking age
In the classroom
No wimp
Open line
Bully boys
The school bomb
LR movie news
Cause for hope
The Baptist endorsement
School buzz
Duggar update
No sex, please, I'm a Bushie
'Rural Arkansas' and Wal-Mart
He wears it well
Where women rule
The religion gene
It's late but
The fix was in -- UPDATE
Let the sun shine in
For your viewing pleasure
What, no Starbucks?
Shameless self-promotion
TIF tiff
Democrats debate
The color of justice -- UPDATE
Late-night LRSD developments
Wal-Mart weirdness
Open line and school forum
The Lakeview masters are pleased
Slam dunk
Packing heat -- UPDATE II
Speaking of division
Racial dialogue
Rap alert
Tom Tomorrow remembers yesterday
Hendrix eyes the gridiron
E-mailgate considered
Free speech
A student athlete
Toyota and Arkansas
House votes on Iraq
Caution: Tattoo removal in progress
Burned up by daylight saving
Hot off the fax
Uh huh -- ginger ale
Happy 50th
War is hell
CORRECTION
No more Mr. Nice Guy -- UPDATE
Arkansas opinion
The Walton stock
A 70 percenter
Another calendar note
Big brother
Your assignment tonight -- CORRECTION
Worst. Administration. Ever.
Republicans hit bottom?
He would say that
E-mail saga continues
Toyota and us
Changing Times
A momentous day
Pryor waits by the phone
Personal groceries
Well, at least Tim Griffin will buy tickets -- UPDATE
Road warrior
Where's Jason? -- UPDATE
LRSD turmoil
None of the above
The Huckabee challenge
Susan of Arkansas
Looking ahead
After the turkey
Joining the parade
Paying the bills
Shut him up -- UPDATE
Where hearts are young and gay
K-k-k-katie
Foodie alert
It's not just UA
The underlying crime -- UPDATE
Vermont is one thing
Mexican consulate opens
The most powerful man in the U.S.
What's on your mind?
Huckabee's a hit
Union wins nurse vote
What's a prize worth
The web name game
Republicans in trouble
Federal Judge George Howard dies
The Virginia Tech saga
Infant death
Big mistake
Wal-Mart snooping
The debased culture
Porky's II
Open line
Jimmie Wilson reprimanded
Every vote counts
Women: second-class at UA
Film fans take note
Huckapac
Broyles successor?
Teresa Prewett speaks
More trash
Nailing the liar
Stopping the charter school train
Battling for tourism dollars
Clear Channel TV properties sold
Medicare? Be very afraid
Whitewater revisited
One angry man
Beebe opposes Indian casino
Helen Walton dies at 87
Gunsmoke Mike
Carefully, we fess up -- UPDATE
No stop loss for Guard -- yet
Giovanni still scheduled
Turbotax extension
Fat credit
Justice watch -- UPDATE III
Who's up, who's down?
Mansion mercy
Finagling in Pulaski County -- UPDATE
In the mail
Lower drug prices?
Hillary hangs tough
Cops in Conway operate a bingo hall
New job for Stovall
Republican chair stepping down -- UPDATE
Partial birth abortion ban upheld
Mission accomplished
My way or the highway
The 'prosecutor'
Houston Nutt responds
Airstream One
Lonoke verdict:: Guilty and guilty
Shooter identified
New drug czar
The big news -- Nutt's phone records
Who writes the history
Dying cities
Behind the numbers
Reaping and sowing
Big name speaker
It's the coverup, stupid
Today's disaster
Redbirds blue
1,300 chickens in every barrel
Bikers, babes and Bach
Where do you get your news?
Follow the money
Griffen gets national platform
A path to redemption
STFU
A new feature -- STFU
School politics
Anything for a laugh
Support for Pryor
Stuck with the tab
Giuliani breakaway?
Open line
On the tourist trail
If not the war, what?
The racial question
Spurned again
Document analyst -- UPDATE
It's all yours
Sex and the Bush administration
That ol' debbil Internet
Document dump
Imus got a raw deal -- UPDATE
Harris talks phone records with Lyncho
Around New Orleans
FBI investigating Stumbaugh
Do you know what it means
By popular demand
The burden of war
Ya think?
Daddy Warbucks Pryor
Wal-Mart gets another shot
Church and state
Better later than never
Play ball - UPDATED
More Hino in Marion?
Clinton to attend Earth Day festival
No fireworks expected
Huck weighs in on stem cells
Guilty
Parents need help too
Surging
I'm walking to New Orleans
Second try in Philly
Black humor
Stray thought
Gone missing
LR Board votes: Cause to fire Brooks
LR School Board: Brooks makes an offer
Nutt's phone records -- UPDATE
Chilling news
Duke lacrosse case closed
Straight talk expressed
Game's the same
Impact fees?
Big day
The lying liars
Pork patrol
Pryor's secret plan
Bless this mic
Good Hog news
Huckabeebe
Clean desk club
Food for thought at Philander
Nowhere to go but up
Legal work
Pray for Anna Nicole Smith's baby
Union vote
National education standards
Can we get a second from Gov. Beebe?
Justice denied
A mission for the governor
LRSD update
Beebe vetoes
LRSD technicality
Today in history
Second tour
Scary story of the day
Mr. Civility
If we give it away ...
It's down to the 30 percenters
The lying liars
A new coach -- and the old one
Take it away
Facing the nation
The Razorback blooper reel
The Huckabee era undone
McCain death watch
Today's trend story
Huckablogging
Janet to the rescue
LRSD musing --UPDATE
The early line
Ode to Benny
SURPRISE: Brooks remains
On a happier note
LIVE: LRSD Board meeting
Enter UALR?
Message for the day
Hail to the Old Gold
UPDATE: No Nutt news at UA Board
LRSD in crisis
Slowly they turn
BREAKING: LR school meet delayed -- UPDATED
Mayor resigns
The TIF tiff
Back to important stuff
Crisis in the LR School District -- UPDATE
Girls gone wild
The second tier -- UPDATE II
Hopping at the IHOP
Remember Mike Huckabee?
Quick, hide the records
Fighting fat and the BMI
Drugs and grades at UA
Change is gonna come
The Brotherhood
Basketball watch
Wal-Mart is watching
Coming lies
The day's outrage
The Altman gap
Stop the presses! -- UPDATE
Overboard
New leadership -- UPDATED
Arkansas: A natural place for gay adoption
Resume inflation?
The Hispanic influx
Somebody needed security
Both sides now
And now, you can get a drink afterward
Sell-out for Travelers
The revenue report
The sky is falling
Hall of Famer
In review: Huckabee
Face time
A victory for new Americans
The new coach
Drive at your own risk
Last-minute drama
McDougal story
It's not over until it's over
Trauma bill terminal
Third try's the charm -- UPDATE
Bypass the electoral college
The coup at Justice -- UPDATE
Insider's view
Character counts
Charter schools
Basketball scoop
What's it all about?
LRSD turmoil -- UPDATE
St. Mike
The windmill boom
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