Not your father's kind of justice Date: 11/19/2009 By: Doug Smith The right to a trial by a jury of one's peers is still widely regarded as a great virtue of the American Way of Life. /more/

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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/

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/

The Observer, Nov. 19 Date: 11/19/2009 By: Arkansas Times Staff The Observer has discovered the Cloak of Invisibility. /more/

Meet me at Disco Date: 11/19/2009 By: Robert Bell Norman Jones has owned the nightclub Discovery since 1979. So far, the venue has weathered six presidential administrations, four recessions, several remodelings and countless trends in dance music. /more/

A&E News, Sept. 24 Date: 9/24/2009 By: Arkansas Times Staff The first single from Kris Allen's forthcoming album is available for streaming on the blog. /more/

What's a liberal to do? Date: 10/29/2009 By: Max Brantley Until last weekend, I was inclined to dismiss liberals' call to vote next year for a Green Party candidate or even a Republican as a protest vote of U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln's wishy-washy moderation /more/

The hatred of health care Date: 11/19/2009 By: Ernest Dumas If you have spent an hour in front of a television the last month you know how encompassing and ruthless the health-care reform debate has become. /more/

'Very solemnly, with a little bit of malice' Date: 11/19/2009 By: John Brummett That 10-year-lad in West Fork, Will Phillips, has become something of a hero. /more/

End of the road Date: 11/19/2009 By: Bob Lancaster One of you readers sent in a question that's beyond my ken, so I passed it along to the sage Assmunch, who's always game for queries, however difficult, unless it's a put-up job by one of these tea-bagger phonys. /more/