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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 17:26:58
The line is open
Wednesday graffiti here.Legislator reports self
I'm open to correction, but this might be a first. A state legislator has reported her own ethical miscue.
State Rep. Kathy Webb of Little Rock has been calling reporters to notify them that she'd learned a campaign worker had mistakenly sent a campaign appeal for her re-election on official House stationery. She notified reporters first of the possibility, then called back to confirm that the misstep had, in fact, occurred. She said 30 letters were mailed. She determined the cost of the mailing to be $35 and wrote a check to reimburse the House. She said she'd notified Graham Sloan, director of the state Ethics Commission. She also said she'd be following up with an explanatory letter to the recipients of the letter.
ACORN cuts in Arkansas
ACORN woes have reached into Arkansas. KUAR's Michael Hibblen will go on the air in a few minutes with a report that ACORN is laying off five of its seven paid workers in Arkansas.
Here's a link to the full interview with lead organizer Neal Sealy.
Sex allegations UPDATE
A story to watch: Fox 16 is reporting that it has talked to two former Mills High students who have alleged sexual contact with a teacher dating back to 2004. To be clear: the teacher in question is not the school's prinicipal, new to the school this year, who has been embroiled in a controversy over unspecified matters with the district superintendent.
UPDATE: A teacher who has been on leave, Timothy Minton, was arrested on four sexual assault charges in the case.
Adios Saturn
GM says a deal to sell Saturn to Penske fell through and it will shut down the line.
Windstream job cuts
Windstream, the Little Rock-based phone company with operations in 16 states, said today it will cut 350 jobs by the end of the year. No details on locations of the jobs just yet.Score one for Sen. Lincoln
Sen. Blanche Lincoln joined other Democrats in defeating an Orrin Hatch proposal to make it difficult, if not impossible, for women to get insurance policies that cover abortion. It was an amendment to federal legislation that already contains multiple safeguards against use of federal money for abortion, which is current federal law.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) described Hatch's amendment as "insulting" to women.
Democrats on the committee, along with pro-abortion-rights Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe (Maine) rejected Hatch's argument, saying it would be unfair to require women to purchase separate insurance coverage for abortion services. Such a requirement, Snowe said, would raise privacy issues by asking women to anticipate their need for abortion coverage.
"It's discriminating against women," said committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), who authored the bill.
The amendment failed on a 10-13 vote, with Snowe joining Democrats and Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) voting with the Republicans.
Hatch has, to our knowledge, not proposed an amendment that makes men acquire separate coverage to obtain a doctor's counseling and pharmaceutical coverage for erectile dysfunction.
PS -- Arkansas Republicans are already lying aboout the action, describing the vote as a vote for spending federal money on abortion. It wasn't.
Death by fire
A cancer survivor's story
How bad is it for Lincoln?
Tuesday tunes
Leaving the building
Blazing sanctuaries
Double-dip watch II
Tiresome
Boozman bloviates
Blue Cross wins TWICE
Who is ProPublica?
Parking scofflaw alert
Million-dollar day
Top history teacher
Double-dip watch
Walton U. strikes again UPDATE
Mike Ross: Poster boy
Jim Holt redux?
Late night school debate
Abortion and health care
Words and deeds
Got to do some coachin'
Sleazy Mike Ross
GOP straw men
Weird day
Falcon layoffs
Crime in the city
Lottery: by the numbers
Poor ol' Blanche
Legislating, Ark. style
Tightening up at UAMS
Missing in DOG's left-wing bashing
A (police) dog's life
Anybody rich yet?
You can't pick very much Cotton
Here come the socialists
Open mic
The long arm of the law
Ross' outreach
If an Islamist said it, it would be labeled terrorism
Taylor made for Verizon
In defense of Mike Ross
Another student lost
Odds are ...
Saturday sorrows
GOP's favorite sons
The evil men do, etc. ...
Dose of my own medicine
GOP watch UPDATE
Complaint on Clinton School
Ditch the tunnel
We're a (fat) poster child
The problem with Mike Ross
Grade school politics
Catching the chicken catchers
It's Miller time
What do you see?
Going after hotel taxes
GOP opposes motherhood
Blue Dogs waver on public option
Turk Plant: Keep building, PC&E says
Campho-Phenique!
Roy Blount looks away from Dixie
So you want to blog?
That's no lady, etc.
Why do spankees spank?
The Capitol tunnel
Say what, Congressman Ross?
The people get it
Republican leadership UPDATE
Over to you
Today's school news
Candid camera
Arkansas Lottery on the web
Calling Chip Hilton
As the world turns
The digital court docket
Ind. lottery cools
Huck, yes!
Sweets for the campaign
What's my excuse?
Ross: Limited hangout route
What's wrong with Dems?
Talk about a death panel
Pass/don't pass
House sticks its hand out
Bedtime reading
The line is open
In these Times
Mike Ross: Touchy UPDATED
Expert testimony
The ACORN gambit
Street name change dead UPDATED
Let us entertain you
Questions for Mike Ross UPDATE
ACORN may have friends
Sympathy for the Huckster
More fun in the 2nd
The line is open
Mad Men
A race in the Third?
Happy days are here again
Whole Hog founder dies
Clinton: Gore in 'Neverland'
The magnficent seven
Pharmacy makes Mike Ross rich UPDATE
Where is Mike Ross?
Getting on board
Bless the (closed) mic
Politics makes bad law
River Market madness
Broadband in the boonies
Belatedly...
Cleaning up ATRS
Cuts in neurosurgery
The business of Hog sports
Election date changed
RNC head in LR UPDATE
Tim tiptoes in
Big Hucking deal
What's wrong with Canada?
With Dems like Mike Ross...
No love for the tunnel
Book beat: Clinton, Boris and Bush
The party of No
Change slowed on rabies shots
Take it away
Speaker Wills for the (luxury) defense
The future of newspapers
In memoriam
Turn your radio on
Osborne pleased with verdict
Lincoln gets specific
Huckabee tops straw men
Presidential goodies
Today's reading: On 'media'
'The Clinton Tapes'
Friday frolic
Mixed Tweets (messages)
Stress on soldiers
Code violation
LR School District watch
Huckstering with Dobson UPDATE
Street of broken dreams
Hopeful economic indicator
No answers in LR woman's death
One dip or two?
Strike up the band
Act Blue (as if)
Tax soft drinks; fight fat
In review: Cowboys Stadium
Over to you
'Not the justice the victim seeks' UPDATE
UA response on rape allegation
Lincoln on Baucus bill
Cheesy
Time for Hogs v. Red Wolves
Death sentence overturned
Justice for Damien Echols
Tommy Robinson still TR
McDaniel does D.C.
Praise the Lord and pass the baby
Attn. Civil War buffs
Play Blanche Lincoln trivia UPDATE
Bus riders need not apply
The two faces of John Boozman
'Latino Waffle House'
Newspaper war
Racism? What's new?
Beating the bushes
Mary Travers 1936-2009
Is that the whistle?
The silence of the Ross UPDATE
No politics, Beebe says
On whipping kids
Paying for road construction
Race? What race?
Enter the Baucus bill
Troubled bank loans
Bush White House tell-all
Five-alarm fire in Morrilton
National Merit honors announced
Going after Acorn
In the early morning rain
Open line UPDATE FOR ELECTIONS
UPDATE: House rebukes Wilson
Annals of gun nuttery
Sneak peak
Meet you with the lobby
Retirement System eyes building sale
Recession seems to be over
A place called Hope
And the Leno verdict is?
The death of journalism
Madame Chairwoman
LRSD and charter schools UPDATE
Monday, Monday
UCA: Still cleaning up
'Pants on fire'
Lamest?
New poll: Lincoln lags
Remember the super collider?
Here comes Target to University
Let us at 'em
Huckabee: Journalism dead
Kudos, and a check, for DHS
Kimbrell confirmed
Fayettevillians being 'dooped'
Card check debate
Stimulating the web
China targets chicken
Lies, damn lies and Repubs
Sunday thread
Supreme Court candidate
'Boy; Oh, Boy'
Viva la France
Love that dirty water
Content of our character
Over to you
Madame chairwoman UPDATE
Just when your 401(k) stopped hemorrhaging
Birthers, 'baggers and other bozos
Ark. death in Afghanistan
Hanging onto the fair
Will he fight?
The great compromiser
Enough!
Lincoln lifts an Arkie
Letter of the law UPDATE
GOP chief: Not to worry
Rove's boy
Fill your hand . . .
Beebe picks new Education boss
Chancellor backs Pelphrey UPDATE
UA enrollment a record UPDATE
Where have you gone, Joe?
9/11 'training exercise'
Alive!
Not that it matters to Mike Ross ...
LR school enrollment up
Your turn
High on Cotton
Supreme Court opening
Channel 4 roster changes
The Supremes are back
LR acquires park land
Going after Joe Wilson
GOP boss has money troubles
Ex-con set for lecture
Calling Mike Ross
Damage control in Hogland
Lying down with dogs
Hope in real estate?
A word from our sponsors
'baggers on display
Late to the party
Open line and Obama
Assume the position
Cry the beloved Arkansas
Almost here
Pryor to Obama: Have a chat
No charges in UA rape complaint UPDATE
Make that Chairman Lincoln
The face of health reform UPDATE
2 bits, 4 bits, 6 bits, the Spa
That's my boy
Beebe stimulus
Ghost writers in the sky
Lincoln to take questions UPDATE II
Back to health
Common sense in Fort Smith
Distress sale
The annals of post-racial America
Domino falls for Sen. Lincoln
Something's happening here
Slow start
Clickit or ticket
Fayetteville: sanity pushes back
Gold digging?
Go green
Get me a ticket for an airplane
Clinton says ...
LRSD strategy
Blue Dog barks
Follow the pipes
How about...
That dangerous speech UPDATE
Labor on Labor Day
Travel day
Mean streets
Why work with these goons?
Pre-empting debate
Lazy Sunday
Obama shut out in Fayetteville UPDATE
Quota queens
Socialism American style
35!
Saturday microphone
The Arkie angle
Instant 'riches'
Chunking card check
Clinton's Motown sound
Propaganda czar Wills
Another foe for Sen. Lincoln
Sen. Lincoln starts swinging
Polite society
Evening roundup
It's the weekend...
Politics in the classroom
Corpse abuse in LR
This is getting a little ridiculous
Their turn
Get educated
Now it's Jacksonville ...
Obama's speech
Just sayin'
The combined NWA newspapers
The speaker explains
Newspaper biz: Then and now
A sign for my times
An open line...
Dispatch from Crazytown
In this week's Times
One-newspaper town
Election time in Wrightsville
Do the loudest win?
State Fair search
Baker's bucks
Talk about a cleaning
Checking in
Open mic
Lottery update
Mmmm pig sooie
In the hole
The new Mike Huckabee
Pfizer in $2 billion settlement
More pleas in cross burning
LRSD behind the scenes
Senatorial strategy
If you dont get well ...
State taxes continue slide
Study: Employers cheat workers
Chelsea isn't getting married
A House divided
Over to you
Pryor, Lincoln cleanup
Flacking the House
Retiree protection at work
TV flash
Careful: Cmdr. Hays is watching
Message management
Beebe calls Senate election
Gilbert Baker in U.S. Senate race UPDATE
Get rich ride quick
Showdown in the Spa
19th Duggar en route
Creative NLR accounting
The shrinking paper
Civil rights are back
Free speech and big bucks
Huckabee: Nice no more
The awful toll
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