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Saturday, October 31, 2009 - 17:10:34
Sunshine
What a beautiful day! Hope you enjoyed a little break in the rain. Let's open it up to you now.Ciao, chow
At least one reader asked for a vacation food shot. So here goes one grabbed quickly. I was too hungry to do any styling. I'm between pizzas in Naples. This one came after an hour wait in line at Da Michele, said to be the best there is in the birthplace of my favorite food.
It's a stripped-down, tiled, hole in the wall in the centro storico, or old part of this gritty city. Your choices are just as spare -- pizza with a garlicky marinara sauce or the margherita, pictured, with tomato, mozzarella and basil. Nothing else. The pizzas cost about 5 euros each and come out of the brick oven smoking, with blistered crust. You can have Coke, Fanta, Nastro Azurro beer or bottled water to wash it down, 1.5 euros whichever.
Joy is everywhere, funiculi, funicula.
Rich yet?
Powerball tickets are (theoretically) on sale now (I'm not going to buy one). KARK, in a deal with the Lottery Commission, will broadcast the numbers tonight of the winner.
Good morning, people
Had some connection problems today with the blog, so getting a late start. But here's a piece of news that will interest walkers and bikers: The River Trail behind City Hall, by the Entergy substation, has caved into the river. Bryan Day says there's not enough land to go around it, so the area will have to be filled in. He guesses that with the Entergy station so near, the city might get some help from the Corps of Engineers with the work.
A thousand cuts
Well, not really. Sam Eifling reports that a couple of high-profile firms have dropped communication staffers. Acxiom made an undetermined number of cuts and CJRW let two people go from their Dallas operation. But another column by Eifling notes a peculiarity in the thought-to-be improved circulation numbers for the Las Vegas Review Journal, a Stephens-owned paper. In the latest Audit Bureau of Circulations report, the paper actually gained 6.56 percent, a pretty rare accomplishment. However:
Steve Coffeen, Stephens' director of corporate circulation, told Editor & Publisher that the Review-Journal actually shed subscribers, and that the increase owes to revised ABC accounting rules that now count the 20,000 or so paid subscribers to the electronic edition. Suddenly a circulation jump of 10,830 feels less like a triumph and more like that old sinking sensation.
Friday, October 30, 2009 - 17:03:14
Over to you
It's been a pretty newsy day here. Be sure to scroll down and catch our earlier blog posts. There's David Koon's interview with the "7th Street Hero," (yeah, we just coined that), there's also stuff about baseball, layoffs, Bibles in schools and much, much more. Have a good weekend. Start it off right by leaving your comments here.How much is it worth?
Central Arkansas Water announced today they will hold a public meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 4, to discuss a lease-purchase agreement with the Trust For Public Lands (TPL) concerning the Winrock Grass Farm in West Pulaski County. The land, over 800 acres, sits in the Lake Maumelle watershed and protecting that land has been a top priority for Lake Maumelle advocates. The grass farm is owned by a group of investors who bought it in a deal brokered by Jay DeHaven.
For some good background info on what the land is worth, read this story by Leslie Peacock. The long and short of it is the land was appraised in April of this year for $5.4 million dollars. CAW CEO Graham Rich will announce the particulars at a press conference on Monday, but said the agreement reached between TPL and DeHaven was somewhere close to $12 million (give or take $500,000) for 915 acres.
Rich said the initial appraisal, which DeHaven was none too happy with, did seem low. A second appraisal, commissioned by TPL, came in at over $12 million -- a figure more consistent with what they've paid for land in the watershed before, Rich said. It will be interesting to find out some more specifics, such as why a plot of land that was bought for $4.5 million in 2005, underwent zero improvements and appraised for $5.4 in 2009 will now sell for approximately $12 million.
TPL will buy the land from its current owners, then funds from investors, including CAW, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commision and possibly the U.S. Forest Service, will be combined with funds set aside by Sen. Bob Johnson to complete the transaction. The press conference will be held at CAW headquarters at 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 2.
More preachin' in school
Treading water UPDATE
Felling the Fourth Estate
King elected president
Pitched in battle
Burglary arrests
It's time
Blanche, can you hear us now?
Downturn
The farmer took the boll weevil...
The daddy card
In case you didn't hear...
Crop killer
Lottery matters
The weather
Taking out the trash?
I'd rather be golfing
The scary seven
Put the candy bag down
Put the deer gun down
On the media
Uncommon cents
Flu Q and A
In a corner
An open line
Chesapeake out
The F bomb
Granted
Beating H1N1
Good news for space challenged
Who needs health care reform?
Hard times at UA
Big cancer research grant for UAMS
Pssst. Wanna buy some Kotex?
Counting newspaper casualties UPDATE
Today it's Pakistan
John Stossel's Ark. payday
A dare for Blanche Lincoln
Top of the morning
Open mic
It ain't tiddly winks
Here comes Powerball
Special prosecutor asked in rape case
Lincoln distrusts government UPDATE
Do you have broadband?
The deadly Afghan quagmire
Clinton's legacy: Golden
Nicotine and new lace
The South's religions: Prayer, football
Slavery and its after-effects
Huckabee sneers at Obama
Fox Republican News
NW Ark. investigative reporting
NW Ark. newspaper war over
The line is open
Pilots lost in digital clouds
Probation in Pressly records case
Gory days for newspapers
Health options coming; Lincoln filibuster?
County officials ready for retirement fight
Lottery mania wanes
Anything for football
A message from your power company
Interracial football
Hope on health reform
Obama's no Nixon
Lincoln OK on discrimination against gays
The line is open
The Catholic Church and women
Revival duty for NLR buses
State budget cut: Small change
Open line
NWA newspaper merger near?
Better than football
Clinton and the press
Focus, Razorbacks, focus
Duct tape architecture of the Ark. Delta
Lincoln sets session with Farm Bureau
Snowe remains health bill czar
G-P to idle Fordyce mill; 300 layoffs
Fox 'reporter' tours Ark. for lobby
The fight for equal rights in Maine
Is that another Hog opera I hear?
The Clinton Library: Five years after
No delay for Pressly murder trial
Nearby and neighborly bank robber
KUAR report: thanks
The man without a cell phone
Is Stanley Reed a RINO?
KUAR begathon time
Open line
Hate crimes bill passes Senate
John Glasgow: On 'Most Wanted'
In these Times
Upgrade Stanley Reed rumor to fact
Halter for U.S. Senate -- and more gossip
FCC approves 'net neutrality'
Up or down vote on public option?
Supreme Court to review SWEPCO plant
Govt. press subsidies: No
Obama v. Fox News
Halter mailing: Legal but smelly
Dry Benton County gets wetter
Over the hump
Hogs screwed, contd.
LR gets advice on deseg settlement
Move Halloween for Hog game?
Justice Dept. responds to Ross complaint
Teacher in sex case denied parole help
Obama targets bailout bonuses
Lincoln backs radio station owners
Huckabee aide joins Baker
Woman to lead Arkansas Best
Ark. employment 'stable'
Free wireless for bus riders
Career criminal gets 90 years in Benton
Budget cuts at eStem charter
LR Board squabbles over garden
Tuesday talk
How wet is it in Ark.?
Effigy gone from Halloween show
Sentence in Chenal DWI
Bill would penalize anti-gay states
State cuts budget $100 million
Age and race divides on same sex marriage
Health care: The great awakening
Polling the U.S. Senate race
Ross defends insurance companies
Grim newspaper reaper nears in NWA
Bring on the death panels
'There's no cure for stupid'
Over to you
Huckabee backs Limbaugh
Lottery report
Hogs screwed by ref
Big bass shop gets away
Cuts hit drunk driving fight
Thinking big in NLR
Officially speaking
LR covered on fire damage
Pine Bluff in bottom 10
School promotes evangelism event
Repubs like Mike
Piano men to play Verizon
Why we not have?
Gambling numbers mixed at tracks
A tale of NWA woe
The clean air fight
Candid camera
No joke -- open line
LR Leisure Center burns down
Talk to Sen. Lincoln
Medicare for all
The early line
If you read one story today ...
Racing for the cure
The Huckster: Ready for prime time?
Too many colleges?
Uncertain times
Friday farewell
LR Zoo rhino dies at 42
Harding changes mind on lottery UPDATE
Halter beats ethics rap
Gag reflex ready?
Tim Griffin: Oppo man
Fort Smith to get wind turbine jobs
Hussman : 'Brave Thinker'
Joe Wilson hits paydirt
Boozman's boodle
Halter announces free clinic details
Better poll numbers for Lincoln
LRSD enrollment
Toast of the town
Anne Frank's tree grows in LR
Hear them roar
Huckster owes Chuck Norris
A Democratic filibuster
Oh, yeah
Baker bucks
BREAKING: Free clinic coming to LR
Wrestling history
Boy, 6, floats off in balloon UPDATE
Mike Ross: Go figure
Rev up the Beck-o-phone
Suffer the animals
Get divorced lately?
More support for free clinics
Sympathy for Mike Ross
Lord, how the money rolls in
Tasered Vilonia cop update
Fixing Cloverdale
Justice for Will Phillips
Lottery winner denied freebie
A free clinic in LR
Step up, Little Rock
Over the hump
Still after the immigrants
Abortion bans don't stop abortion
Saline verdict against waste hauler
Who loves the lottery?
Cop tases brother
Wake me when it's over
Times to UCA prez: Sez who?
Going to Texas
McCain aide eases up on Palin
When I win Powerball ....
Local rail union bribery angle
Saving money
Attn: Pulaski Quorum Court
Tuesday topics
Forlorn fair
Dumb crook story
Mega-mega-bucks
Who'll check the fact-checkers?
Give them the money
NLR arrest in Texas child rape
Lincoln watch UPDATE
Stepfather responds in WM3 case
Let's eat -- and vote
Fake deli robbery
Not a fit night for spirits
About 'clean coal'
Taxing by light bill
Happy in Helena
Monday, Monday
Sen. Lincoln's millions
Gov. Beebe's European tour
Obama and Fox at war
Justice for some in West Fork, not all
Mike Huckabee: More guff on Nobel
$100K lottery winner
Here comes the insurance industry
Newspaper war stories
Clinton tapes: A coverup?
Doing the Duggar math
Marching for equal rights
WM3 UPDATE
It's open
Best television show ever?
Science v. wackjobs
Not-so-silent Sunday
More troops in Afghanistan?
Negotiating your health
Vets for clean air
Obama gay policy: Don't ask when
Saturday open line
Pulaski County bonuses
Arkansas's second city
Today's good read
Speaking of the FOI
Open line
Business deal turns very sour
Where the blue dogs roam
We get lottery letters
Long defends UA doc deal
Obama's Nobel cash to charity
Easing the county jail crunch
Tim Russert fans alert
Corporate welfare lament
School improvement list
A tale of two candidates
She's the tops
Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
Don't cry for Judge Buddy UPDATE
Open line
Indictment in Chenal fire
Indictment over IUD misuse
Vance evidence cleared UPDATE II
Gearhart whitewashes UA athletic depart.
Stimulus money buys chopper
The big idea
Snyder imperiled
About those lottery players ...
Unions push for public option UPDATE
Reynolds gift for Children's
Delays at the LR Airport
Hitting at the belt
College-level accounting at UCA
Murder hearing Day 3
LR schools needing improvement
Pressly suspect to stand?
Gene Lyons on sex scandals
McCain strategist in town
Over the hump
Newspaper war: Armistice day near?
Animal cruelty investigation
Arkansas flat tax
Man of the year charged with rape
Pressly hearing continues UPDATE
$25,000 lottery win
About those e-mail addresses, Nimrod
Death Star for Senate
ERA now
Snyder on health, war
NLR picks up Spain expenses
Wills' fig leaf on ethics
Lincoln's for transparency
Over to you
Pressly suspect in court UPDATE
Pulaski court plan rejected
Opponent for Boozman
Death in Russellville
Stick a cap in it, Claiborne
Doctors, heal thyself
The flying mayor
Ark. Blog: Cyber-censored
Here come the Repubs
Question for Gov. Beebe
Huckobsessed
Targeting Lincoln
Meet the Duggars
Sex and the university
Can we?
October song
ACORN founder invokes Holtz
Over to youse guys
And speaking of junkets
The year of the junket
Lincoln is pivotal
A vote for abstinence
Been to the Moulin Rouge?
Coming out in Pine Bluff
Nationally noted wedding
Death in our family
McArthur death reported
Baker's bucks
Full blogger disclosure
At the Clinton School
Mike Huckabee: Still huckstering
Tears of a clown
The politics of spite
Health options
Hard times all over
The line is open
Bonfire of the vanities
Anybody but Blanche
Bloodsuckers never quit
Ark. finalist for SCLC post
Open line
The Clinton Tapes
Conservatives rebound
Pity for Mike Ross
Friday follies
FedEx mercy flight
Arson suspected in Morrilton
Fayetteville escapee captured
Say what?
Double-dip count
Lincoln calling?
One small step for pregnant prisoners UPDATE
Money talk
Chicago: Still second city
It's entertainment, see
State money not looking up
The power of words
Do you know where your speaker is?
ID of burning body
Gov. Beebe?
Letterman's reality show
Open the records
Dittoheads don't matter
Abortion polling
Let there be...
The power of one
What's the big idea?
We get it...
In these Times
WM3 appeal
Add 67 more to the unemployed
Pawlenty first
Wright pleads not guilty
In case you were wondering
River Market numbers
The GOP field clears
Hang up the @*&! phone
Just as I am (armed)
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