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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.

• Earth Day open line

  Your turn.

• 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.

• Popular Brinkley barbecue restaurant busted for suspected video gambling machines

  Gene's Bar-B-Que & Restaurant in Brinkley has been raided by special agents with the First Judicial District Drug Task Force on suspicion of illegal gambling. Ten video arcade machines and cash were seized from the popular barbecue joint.

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• Re: Teachers' union wary of governor's Teach for America investment, alludes to proposed National Board Certification rule change

  • How I was able to get a loan despite my poor credit I am Christine…

  • Posted by Christine Cannell
  • on April 22, 2018

• Re: Earth Day open line

  • THIS DATE IN ARKANSAS HISTORY-----Stephen Smith 22-Apr 1898 Arkansas Supreme Court says a wife who…

  • Posted by Cato1
  • on April 22, 2018

• Re: Jan Morgan and Rep. Dan Sullivan slapped with ethics complaint

  • Don't let the RINO's get ya down Jan! We know you're for the REAL people…

  • Posted by tsallenarng
  • on April 22, 2018

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