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Stepping up: Coal Power is Poison is stepping up their ad campaign against the controversial coal-fired power plant near Texarkana.  The group will start running the above advertisement in the Democrat-Gazette starting tomorrow morning.  


The Frac Act: The Arkansas Conservation Alliance joins a laundry list of national groups in support of the Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act.  Check out the YouTube video above, and a press release here, describing how chemicals from drilling waste led to a large scale fish-kill in a creek in Pennsylvania.  If you think this stuff isn't going on in this state, you're dillusional.

Just for Kicks: A comic by John Hart [via Switchboard]. 

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Life and death
Date: 11/19/2009
By: David Koon

Not many were shocked when Curtis Lavelle Vance was found guilty last week of capital murder, rape, residential burglary and theft of property in the October 2008 beating death of KATV anchor Anne Pressly. /more/

Xmas access nixed
Date: 11/19/2009
By: Arkansas Times Staff

Two weeks ago we reported on the efforts of the Arkansas Society of Freethinkers to put up a winter solstice display on the grounds of the state Capitol. /more/


Charter school wisdom
Date: 11/19/2009
By: Arkansas Times Staff

The state Board of Education last week demonstrated a more searching approach to charter school applications than it has sometimes shown. /more/

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