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Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 17:42:37
Amendment handicapping
Roby Brock at Talk Business handicaps tomorrow's committee session that could choose three constitutional amendments for the ballot. His odds sound plausible to me. Still funny that the "right to hunt" amendment is an acknowledged front-runner. It's naught but needless rhetoric, although a certain crowd loves a little hot rhetoric now and then. To borrow some, they'll take rifles and shotguns from Arkansas hunters when they pry them from their cold dead fingers. (And the fishing rods from fishermen.)The line is open
And I'm heading home.All we have to fear ...
UALR Chancellor Joel Anderson sent a note around to the campus about a recent robbery. Perfect pitch.
For nearly all of us -- every minute, every day, everywhere -- the odds are small that we'll be victims of crime. You can be smart, alert and careful without living in constant fear.
Go green
On the jump, some details on key committee meetings tomorrow on energy legislation still alive -- one to provide weatherization rebates, the other a much broader initiative aimed at system-wide conservation.
From Bill Kopsky of the Arkansas Public Policy Panel:
Spend a lot, save a little
I'm a skeptic about sales tax holidays as economic stimulus. Maybe they have some marginal benefit in border towns (as if Texarkana needs more tax breaks) with major retail centers nearby that have well-publicized existing sales tax holidays. But I'm thinking the person who loads up the SUV to drive from Little Rock to Memphis to save the sales tax on T-shirts and jeans for school is maybe not making a wise consumer decision. In short, you don't inflate demand for underwear by cutting taxes on underwear and the drain out-of-state currently isn't much.
But I don't know. Such a bill moved out of a House committee today.
ALSO TODAY IN THE HOUSE: Rep. Fred Allen's bill to restrict sale of authentic-looking toy guns passed on its second go-round, 55-38.
Conflict of interest R Us
Rep. Kathy Webb got her vote today on the modest bill to discourage state board members (through fines) from voting on matters on which they KNOW they or family or employer have a financial conflict of interest. The Farm Bureau and the Chamber of Commerce insisted that their subsidiary legislators vote against this bill. They gave no good reasons.
The vote was 38-47-1. The roll call will be here eventually. I'm most interested not just in the "nays," but in those 14 too chicken to vote. (Though absence is same as a no.) Hmm. Chicken. Freudian slip.
Roll call is now up. Shame on Les Carnine, again. He voted "present," effectively a no vote. The temperate school superintendent we once knew in Little Rock apparently shed any pretense of moderation to get and hold onto a legislative seat from Republandia. Though, here, a number of Republicans were on the right side.
Grading the schools
Arkansas public school report cards are going out. They include a new measure intended to show how each public school does in advancing students' knowledge from one year to the next.
Complicated.
Here's a news release to explain it.
And here is a spreadsheet of statewide results, by school, on the new index.
Moon blows up USAT, repeats LR exit
Casino initiative
The greening of Arkansas
Close, but it doesn't float
UCA's new math
The cowardly lion
Here's to you
Another run at ethics
In-state tuition bill fails
Honoring Cal Ledbetter
Fort Smith hospital sold
Gun bill fails
As others see us
Arkansas: It's a man's world
State of the city
Drug store stimulus plan
Democratic elections
Election. What election?
Bush legacy on pensions
Speaking of Senate politics
Is Blanche Lincoln in trouble?
Union inroads
Cultural notes from all over
The lying liars
CEO Obama
Old times not forgotten
Lower prices every day
Legislative ethics
The end of Alltel
Odd man out
Open line
Digging up dirt
Judicial kickback scheme
Nolan's legacy
Domestic dispute
Help for Juan
Friday follies
Diamond mystery
Good news?
Sup. Crt. justice a liar
Unname that bill, lawyer says
Charlie Daniels goes green
Schueck has left the building
Happy ending for Eureka
Whose side are you on?
More unemployed
Today's boondoggle
Ethics watch
Unrest at UALR
Today at the legislature
Talking turtle
Dark humor
An in with Sen. Lincoln
Hooky time
Legislative update
Home school advocate
Lottery cleanup
New trial sought for Damien Echols
Beebe: For open gun records
More newspaper woes UPDATE
Free master's degree
Women and children first UPDATE
Barack Six-pack
Quoting Sen. Pryor
For the children UPDATE
Open line
Tumbling along
Marcus Monk's ride
About preserving that facade ...
Bank robbery
Let's play Powerball!
More newspaper pain
Lobbying for Obama
Broad daylight holdup UPDATE
Re Beebe's numbers: Oops
Lunch report
Help for kids? Maybe. Guns in church? No.
Lincoln polling: 'Good but not great'
Card check compromise?
UA completes cleanup
We're NOT in the money
Move the primary?
Some things are negotiable; some not
Sympathy for AIG
Legislative ethics
When legislators are outlawed ...
UAMS vision
The line is open
St. Vincent plans job cuts
The doctor is in
Legislative notes
Official secrets
Adios Valentine's ...
R.I.P. card check
Robbery foiled
Stop the charade
Arkansas hearts Mike Beebe
Diploma milling
George Kell dies
Follow the bullets
Thar she goes
News from the Northwest
Shooting victim named
The schoolhouse door
Clinton and the death penalty
Helping children
Post comments here
Show us the money
Who owns the Arkansas lottery? UPDATE
Animal cruelty
High rollers wanted
UCA seeks opinion
Why land use matters
Market mania
For cleaner air
Pork panderer's pratfall
Home rule
The question of appearances
'See the pyramids along the Nile ...'
Digital news
Monday morning coming down
Tax shoe to drop
'Antiques road show'
Legislative freebies
Unintended consequences
Cash for trash
Huck watch UPDATE
Too nice a day
Katrina moment
The latest splinter group
Annual sessions
Early line
Gun beat
AIG: Take a deep breath
Thank you for smoking
Who's up; who's down?
Blanche v. Rush
The line is open
Unemployment blues
Who's in charge here?
It's in the mail
Socialized chicken
Hardin paid off
Picking and grinning UPDATE
Starr's chamber
Valentine's kaput
Pryor hops on AIG
Back to your day job
Praying for a technicality
UAMS pick official UPDATE
Roberts Elementary
There will always be a newspaper, Pt. II
American knowhow
Blog bites senator
Cosmopolitan LR
Vic Snyder says ...
Belatedly
New chancellor at UAMS UPDATE
Told you so
Obama on Leno
Triple threat
Senate on the constitution
There'll always be a paper
Bleeding the leeches
Obama team falters UPDATE
Huck: The next Paul Harvey
Return to scene of crime
Murder suspect in court
Merit pay, charter schools, testing, etc.
Maybe they forgot the anchovies?
Half full
Suffer the animals
Enter a candidate
The line is open
House litmus test
Medical pot: It's time
What's to discuss? UPDATE
The Three Gs
The future
A tiny bit of sunshine
A.I.G. refunds sought
Hip hop Repub
Batesville says: Si puede
What about it, Gov. Beebe
Check and double check
Run Gilbert run
Constitutional amendments
DNA databases
Trial by Internet
The old college try
North to Alaska
Open line
New charge for Pressly suspect
Act One to trial
The company store
Gun beat
Speaking of the lt. gov.
Re lottery: Read this
Caution: Fish crossing
Caterpillar contracts
End of an era
Racial profiling hotline
Gas companies: not your friend
Curtis Vance in court
Move over Huck
Education reform
Borat does Fort Smith
Bonus frenzy
Coming soon to a campus near you
Those mean old unions
An open line
Legislative notes
Huckabee on Madoff
Opinion leader Cheney
Balance sheet rebalancing
The mayor sez...
Sunshine today
Tax cuts today
Block that bonus!
Another bird strike
The beer that made Milwaukee famous
Just a thought
Amendment time
A lot of gall
Fresh thread
Hunting and fishing for gas
U-verse report
The running report
Q: Going to church today?
Tax increase impact small
Daycare poisoning
Diversity on UA board
Blanche and Joe
Regional rivalry
Judge removal
And over to you
Drilling bust
Here comes the sheriff
Secessionist fervor
Familiarity breeds ...
Old King Coal
Friday follies
Cut for filmmakers
Time to crank up River Dance
Cuts are one thing ...
Struttin' with some barbecue
Stimulating
'I didn't do anything wrong'
More on the water UPDATE
Still more blame in crisis
Daycare followup
So much for newspapers UPDATE
President Chuck
ID bill beaten
Shut the twit up UPDATE
The Southern oligarchy
The race is on
Affiliated falters
All done but the boodling
Kool-aid drinkers
Thursday thoughts
A small victory
Judicial finalists UPDATED
The legislative clubhouse
All hat, no stimulus
Stop the presses
7's on your side
TV tonight
The economics of race
Doc guilty in sex case
Beer and snacks -- on us
Newspaper verdict
Lawyer sanctioned for sex
It ain't chicken feed
World traveler McDaniel
Shoe tosser to slammer
Sad eating news
Alas, Michael ... UPDATE
School super shuffle
No newspaper towns
GOP sound and fury
Lottery details
Late ledge notes
Open mic
Universal spring break
High times
Slipping away
The bingo racket
Presidential speech
Speaking of Limpublicans
Socialism: Good medicine
The Limpublican Party
Film incentive moving
Progress on Pilgrim's
The taxman cometh
Unemployment rises
So much for primaries
Fatal crash on Chenal
Funny guys
Imagine
10 dead
Open line
Even Louisiana ...
Classroom discipline
A new license plate
Teen driver crackdown
Low wages every day
Wake me when it's over
Madoff to plead
The pride of Judsonia
Doc remains in custody
Bingo compromise
Main Street strip show
Good government
Gun beat
Targeting Lincoln
All in the family
Obama's education plan
UCA moves forward
Gunsmoke
Gay bashing UPDATE
Blog reader says...
Open line
Gun beat
Follow the bouncing stimulus
It's called leverage
At the Capitol
Fire chief finalists
Fighting for clean water
Sunshine superwoman
Bye bye Bush era
Stand by for Huck
Woo Pig, Pryor
McDaniel v. Wills
About those pay raises
The return of science
School dollars to come
More of the same
Open line
Guns in church
Is justice fair?
Water: Case in point
Life outside LR
Spring forward ... oops
Light day
Why Blanche waffles
Wills for the defense
Open says me
UCA Board cleans up
Now is not the time
Stem cell rule change
Madoff plea in works?
Trauma drama
Other goings on
More on Mann
Bang-up job UPDATE
Off the docket
Obama dithers
The sleazier chamber UPDATE
Explosives charge
Hard times
Check mate?
Long day...
Bringing films to Arkansas
Sympathy for trial lawyers
Dillard's: More bad news
Lottery bill ETA: next week
Where's the bottom?
Holtz and Hannity
Protecting the watershed
Ethics bills on the way
Still chasing
Today's action UPDATE
Speaking of social justice
Obama and the culture war
Home sales sink
ASU President's Club
Heavy hangs the head
Tweet, tweet
Here's looking at you
Driving restrictions passed
ACLU, students win
Avoiding embarrassment
From the Italy office
Cure for a sick system
Mission halfway accomplished
Immigrant police
Governor on the scene
Bottom fishing
Stimulating
The line is open
Nice try, Marty
X another at XNA
More pain
A walk on the wild side
The new WPA
Further on grade inflation
ERA today UPDATE
Norm Coleman has lost
Assessing early retirement
Old boys club
February revenue
The face of conservatism
Brummett for the defense ....
Is Blanche liberal?
Open line
Slow day at Capitol
Battle for 'soul' of GOP
New on the web
No sewage in the watershed
Pryor to UA Board? UPDATE
Stimulating
Give us shelter
Actor's legacy
Heard it here first
How low can it go?
Fighting for equal rights
Squeezing the cities
The health care crisis
'In conclusion'
Sunday thread
Wheels on an LA road
Politics and reality
Stand by for ...
Bob Johnson's atonement
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