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The dark and stormy open line

The line is open. Waiiting for Stormy Daniels and enjoying the unhappiness of the NRA about Saturday's marches.
- by Max Brantley
- Mar 25, 2018
Cotton Plant, Ark., makes the big time thanks to marijuana

The hopes of tiny Cotton Plant to be revitalized by a medical marijuana cultivation facility is the subject of a feature article in today's New York Times.
- by Max Brantley
- Mar 25, 2018
Crossett pollution: Does anybody care besides the newspaper?

There's an outstanding piece of reporting in today's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette by Eric Besson and Emily Walkenhorst about pollution at the Georgia-Pacific plant in Crossett. Will it join past investigative journalism in the dustbin?
- by Max Brantley
- Mar 25, 2018
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Speaking of the Clinton Foundation: Returns in maize and beans

A reporter for Politifact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking organization, sent a reporter to Africa to see where money given to the Clinton Foundation has been put to work. He found tangible results.
- by Max Brantley
- Sep 6, 2016
A response to police arrests becomes a tutorial on race, class and policing in Little Rock

John Walker, the 79-year-old civil rights lawyer, and his associate, Omavi Shukur, 29, a young lawyer devoted to criminal justice reform, talked to press this afternoon about their arrests Monday by Little Rock police for supposedly obstructing governmental operations in observing and attempting to film a routine police traffic stop. It was a tutorial on sharp views of race, class and governance in Little Rock.
- by Max Brantley
- Sep 29, 2016
Donald Trump declares war on Hillary Clinton's marriage

Donald Trump gave a remarkable interview to the New York Times yesterday in which he declared open season on the marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton's past infidelity. Seems like a loser, but I've been wrong before.
- by Max Brantley
- Oct 1, 2016

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Jan Morgan and Rep. Dan Sullivan slapped with ethics complaint

While anti-establishment outsiders might be more likely to be clumsy or amateurish enough to actually get caught, it's worth noting that mainstream candidates have a fully legal version of the scam that Sullivan and Morgan are accused of running.
New poll finds Asa Hutchinson with sizeable lead over Jan Morgan, plus support for continuing Medicaid expansion among Republican primary voters

A new poll from Talk Business finds that Governor Hutchinson has a substantial lead over Jan Morgan, the hog-riding, Muslim-banning, gun-toting, airbrushing, RINO-busting gadfly from Hot Springs. And in a doozy of a finding, a substantial plurality of likely voters in the Republican primary now support the Medicaid expansion program.
Finally, a memorial to the 21 boys who were burned to death at Wrightsville in '59

It has been 59 years since 21 teen-aged boys incarcerated at the so-called Negro Boys Industrial School were burned to death in their locked dormitory. The Times wrote about the event in 2008, after the brother and mother of one of the boys approached the Times looking for someone to remember the event, and headlined the story "Stirring the Ashes." But on Saturday, a monument to the boys was placed at Haven of Rest Cemetery, where 14 of the boys were buried.
Earth Day open line

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