« December 2008 | Main | February 2009 »
Saturday, January 31, 2009 - 16:36:19
Open line
Here it is.From the speaker's office
Another plug for House Speaker Robbie Wills' blog -- and thanks to the speaker for chipping in with a blog comment yesterday and claiming authorship of every last word.
You'll see he does stay up late posting.
For legislative process junkies, it's highly recommended.
A lesson on what co-sponsors mean and the levels of support that contribute to the 75 votes needed for tax passage. A news roundup (what, no links to Arkansas Blog?). A radio broadcast. An explanation of the amendments to the tobacco tax that have removed some opposition. (Payola for tobacco wholesalers and a brand-name snuff manufacturer.) More digs at tobacco lobby frontman Dick Armey.
Riddle me this, Batman: While Dick Armey of Texas is here next Tuesday for his press conference to tell us Arkies that we shouldn’t raise our cigarette tax, maybe he can explain why Texas’ cigarette tax rate is $1.41 a pack? Do as I say, not as I do.
Beebe scores
DeMillo analysis: Gov. Mike Beebe hit a political homerun by declining a pay raise provided in legislation he signed.
Agreed. Doesn't mean it wasn't a cheesy stunt.
Friday night frenzy
If the crowds weren't heading to the first round of the Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase last night at Sticky Fingerz (see Rock Candy for updates and other things to do daily) they were storming down to Riverdale to try the just-opened Maddie's Place, Brian Deloney's casual New Orleans-influenced spot newly opened between Faded Rose and Buffalo Grill.
Fair warning. The line was out the door and there was hardly a scrap of standing room to wait inside. We called ahead to pick up the oyster poor boy above. See the Times next week for a review. No, they don't take reservations. I'd suggest an off-hour visit.
Cop misconduct and the court
Interesting reporting on how legal scholars believe Chief Justice John Roberts is moving to undo the "exclusionary rule" that allows criminal defendants to suppress evidence produced by police misconduct.
Thank goodness for the presidency of Barack Obama, who opposed Roberts' confirmation (no thanks to our senators). There'll not be another justice like this usurper of fairness and liberty during Obama's tenure.
More common sense
Brummett discovers verities of blogging: Sometimes you think something blogged is just too good not to repeat in a subsequent print edition of your publication and the different readership of digital and print forms justifies it.
So it is that he offers an extended version of some common sense about 1) the Republican defeat of a resolution congratulating Barack Obama because they found it politically incorrect and 2) Republican's opposition to a tobacco tax to pay for health programs.
Friday, January 30, 2009 - 19:19:01
Now it's Tom Daschle
With tax problems. $100,000 worth. Not good.Emergency leave for state workers
Steele new RNC head
Proctor hearing set
Blogger Wills
The subject is dope
Shale watch
UAMS recommended for Ray Winder UPDATE
Bipartisan tax and spenders UPDATE
Shoutout to Arkansas House
Republican speaks truth
Fightin' words?
Bipartisanship at work
Which side are you on?
Open line
Blago booted by Ill. ledge
Do as I say, etc.
Woo, pig
Chip the magic loser
The grownups in the Senate
ASU down too
Animal bill OK
Common sense
LR pre-schoolers in limbo
Blago for the defense
Speaking of hotels
They'll leave the light on ...
Stop the presses!
More job cuts
Ice station Fayetteville UPDATE
About that retirement
Pay fixes
Too much monkey business
An August primary?
Safe 'Black Ice'
You're on
Stimulus bill passes
This will go national UPDATE
It's the law: Be kind to animals
Looking for loopholes
Winter wonderland
Repubs revolting all over
Speaker Wills sez ...
Shot while cooking
Rocking Wall Street
Newspaper goes digital
To a healthier state
Budget cut alert
Let us pray -- and check our safeties
About that emergency
Smokers are insane
Chili's on
Booze news
PACing for 2012
We're in the money
State of emergency
More jobs gone
Be careful out there
Cat ordinance iced
Rabbit at rest
Frogmarch up to Obama
Smokin'
4 more months of them stinkin' ads
Tuition rising
Can you spare a dime?
Dissing Paine UPDATE
Praise the Lord; pass the ammo
Talk about new media
Climate change: Oh, never mind
Irish eyes are smiling
How to beat big tobacco
Weather notes
Rough year for colleges
The fight for cleaner air
For the family
Thus spake the Huckster
Weather report
Deflating Beebe
Monday, Monday
Ponzi schemer sentenced
Crossing a new bridge
Beebe: Still 'splainin'
Franken alert
Fired up
Dunce cap fitting
Touchy, touchy
Outsider art
'Don't let the doorknob hit you'
Thank you SWEPCO
Caterpillar cuts
Searching for an honest man
The Kennedy question
Let us pray
Slacker Sunday
Wal-Mart goes green
Protecting acts against animals
Open line
Beebe's risk
KATV's Black Friday
Split decision in Texas
Hotel confidential
Choose your poison
School supt. on hot seat
Open for business
Promise kept
Beebe declines pay boost
Bad signs at Crossroads
Following the paychecks
Zut alors!
On 7's side no more
Biting the hand that feeds
Beebe appoints
All in the family
Legislature to hear from dick
The failed Obama administration
Need a tow in Fayetteville?
Higher ed watch
Self-promoter for Senate
NY's new senator
Get your guns
Cig tax maneuvers
Pro-life bishop
Light 'em up
New thread
Deseg settlement
Blogginfoo
Another Nannygate?
You go, GOP
What's it all about, Norm?
At the end, Bush was president
Let us pray ...
Good place to work
Too easy?
Big names at Clinton School
Wild, wild west
Booze news
Highway unrest stops
Arkansas's war effort
Religion as science
Obama distilled
LRSD, contd. UPDATE
Supporting bark for Boss Hays
Robohuck
Rest easy
Mistrial in shooting
Kennedy is out -- or is she?
Fresh thread
What is it about Arkansas?
You are known by your enemies
The permanent legislature
Time wounds all heels
You KNEW this was gonna happen
Unexpected turbulence
White smoke at the Mansion
Help for the animals
UAPB on parade
Bank fraud reported
A moment of reflection
Now the governing
Right direction, but ...
News tomorrow
Tuesday talk
Civil rights are in again UPDATE
Carnegie haul
Country comfort
LRSD budget talks, contd.
Senators collapse UPDATE
The solemnity of the occasion ...
Fix it again Tony
Respect, hope and, at last, change
Some things never change
Bush has left the building
The South's redemption
Meanwhile, back at the Capitol
Morning mailbag
The essence of Arkansas
Over to you
The Tennessee coup
Feel strong up here to you?
Imagine
The missing prayer
Pardon watch UPDATE
Your tax dollars at work
M.L. King Day thought
Follow the money
Woo pig
Bird is the word
Obama as Clinton
Extortion in NLR
Inauguration mix tape
The party never ends
Oh happy day
Two days and counting
Woo pig sooie
News never sleeps
The line is open
Death in the UCA family
Heckuva job, Bushie
We're No. 1
Brad Paisley does Alltel
Inauguration for sale
This week's hero
Advantage Beebe
Friday night lights
It's a dirty business....
UA Board: nothing to see here
Abortion politics
New University hospital
Short circuit
Justice reprimanded
Arrests in robberies
Everyone's a reporter
A slow train through Arkansas
Mom loses kids
Coy's burns
UA politics
Forget, hell
Still more LRSD budget talk
Gambling fever
Killers collared
Commodore Hays hits iceberg
STFU
Just for you
Budget talks continue
Home, bankrupt, home
Gearhart's touch
Dipping into tobacco
Bridges to the 21st century
Nobama for Repubs
New blood at UCA
Plane down in NYC
Pressly killing suspect pleads innocent
Snyder boys home
Sing on, judge
Solidarity forever
It's not easy doing good
Best schools in Arkansas
Buzz cut, here I come
The new day in D.C.
'Waterboarding is torture'
The old revolving door
Here comes the tobacco lobby
Behind closed doors at UA
Arkies commit in RNC race
Rick Warren, who cares?
Open line
Granny gets justice -- temporarily
God and student at Fountain Lake
Beebe unveils healthcare initiative
Change you can believe in
Involuntary pay reductions
Suffer the animals
Good fishing news
Buckle up
The Conway gulag
Heh.
On House bill assignments
The Arkansas GOP
Arkansas: cutting edge
Getting hot out there
In the event ...
The media crunch
No-brain cellphone use
Internet predator threats
Second conviction in child's slaying
Where's the watchman?
Pryor: Moving on up
Power plant conflict
Presidential politics -- UA-style
LRSD budget, contd. UPDATE
Going after cats
Could be worse UPDATE
Wingnut fear o' the day
The rot in Justice
Give us your poor... UPDATE
A House media first
Who's hustling?
Such a deal
School accountability: Not
Suffer the children
Cigarettes and health
The mighty Huck
Child missing in car theft UPDATE
Open line
'Simple, universal, fair'
Let us pray
Beebe appoints State Police commissioner
Heights food news
Boss Wills UPDATE
The dangers of downloading
Set 'em up
Obama adds gay bishop
Flapper, yes sir, one of those
LRSD budget cuts
Jindal to speak
Mistakes were made
Where charity begins
Estate tax to live
Immigration obsession
Twelve zeros
Huckabee v. Coulter
Obama to NYT: Stick it
Slow day
Drink up, boys
Forget hell!
The Death Star twinkles
Over to you
Trailer thieves nabbed
The rich get richer
Segregating charter schools
Federal help for Hope
We're No. 1!
Ethics schmethics
Grandstanding or good government?
You're on
The bad news business
A giant's passing
Child porn nets big sentence
Bloody Sunday
Blago impeached
Carrying charges
Football and race
Juvenile justice
Who will grow Arkansas?
Probing the bond business
Like it or lump it, gals
Alltel: The new world
Honeymoon's over
Keys to the courthouse
Let others pay
The late report
Bulldog, bulldog, bow wow wow
Riviera condos 'financially sound'
Open checkbooks
Annals of crime: Cabot division
Justice watch
It's about time
The senator's good work
LR school cuts
Aaaiiiiieeee! More of those ads!
Sarah ungagged
In vitro coverage spared
Hands across the sea
That didn't take long
Bush by the numbers
Heroes and villains
The case for the cigarette tax
New leader at CDI
Happy ending for immigrant
Beebe: Not sweating small stuff
Just so you'll know
Dueling lawyers
New media at Capitol
School leader out
Stealing from the elderly
Black and white and red ink all over
Great minds and all
Church and state in Fountain Lake
Pulaski voting OK
But what are we teaching?
Democrats rethink Burris
The Rep: Back on Main
Ark. education makes Top 10
Lowest of the low
Had to happen
Believe!
Early warning
Lawmakers talk session
If they're for it ...
Finding a new Lu
Here comes the Family Council
Tyson fined $500,000
Bank robbery
An ill wind
Burris not seated
Giving Caterpillar plant legs
Sooooo-ieeeee!
A giant dies
Nathan Dick transfers to UCA
Ark. makes national headlines
Global warning according to John
UA tuition going up
The incentives game
It's about that time
He's good enough, he's smart enough...
Act 1 injunction filed
It's cold
Panetta to CIA
Can't wait
Court sniffs at suit
UPDATE: Caterpillar to NLR
Death Star: Bulldoze Ray Winder
Show Me no more
The Old Guard is back
Lower caps for higher ed
Not perfect
NLR's big news UPDATE
Support for Blago
Enough!
Here you go...
Vampires in Houston
There's more than one way...
Downtown down
Just for grins
Vehicle for jobs
US blocks action in Gaza
Evolution in reverse
Missing faces
Death Star to seek more conciliatory approach?
Minnesota mining
Here we go again
Fringe art -- poli sci division
Enabler's farewell
Arkie in-law
Some P.S.es
Let's open it up
And so it begins
R.I.P., John Dortmunder
How the mortgage scammers "f.u."-ed us all
Climate change kerfuffle
Bush blow to forests
Oaklawn ban
Simplistic
Thomas Paine redux
Death in NLR
A handout for Arkansas?
Huckabee (preacher, ret.)
Coody, adieu
Open line
Family business
McDaniel responds
Do-something legislature?
Sign of new times
Calling David Sanders
Obama at Mosaic Templars
The end of Alltel
The so-called liberal media
Slow news day?
Where's the justice?
General musings
Profiles in paranoia
Surprised it took this long ...
We are all 09ers
Awwwwww
It must be Belgium UPDATE
Snyder enrolls for a pension UPDATE
NLR kids get the shaft
Re global warming
-
October 2009
September 2009
August 2009
July 2009
June 2009
May 2009
April 2009
March 2009
February 2009
January 2009
December 2008
November 2008
October 2008
September 2008
August 2008
July 2008
June 2008
May 2008
April 2008
March 2008
February 2008
January 2008
December 2007
November 2007
October 2007
September 2007
August 2007
July 2007
June 2007
May 2007
April 2007
March 2007
February 2007
January 2007
December 2006
November 2006
October 2006
September 2006
August 2006
July 2006
June 2006
May 2006
April 2006
RSS Feed |
  |
| © 2004 - 07 Arkansas Times. All Rights Reserved. |  |
