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The District 90 race heats up over cows and huntin'

Republican incumbant Roy Ragland didn't take too kindly to Democratic challenger Eddie Yancey's claim that he's not a Farmer and a Cattleman.  Ragland fired back with the most serious of serious claims that could be made against an Arkansas politician; he claimed that Yancey doesn't hunt or fish.

In other news: our children go to inadequate schools and our state is 49th behind Alabama in per capita income. 

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Re "In other news".... If only the voters would put such issues in perspective as well......

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