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• Lynchings hidden in the history of the Hot Springs Confederate monument

  Hot Springs twice erupted into the kind of violence that has its roots in the issues left unresolved by the Civil War, and both times, it happened right where that monument to Confederate soldiers stands today.

• Waltons give UA $120 million to establish School of Art

  The Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation has made a $120 million gift to establish a School of Art at the University of Arkansas.

• LR discussion set on cuts in state aid for disabled

  The Center for Arkansas Legal Services and  Legal Aid of Arkansas will have a public meet from 1 to 3 p.m. Friday at the downtown library at 100 S. Rock on cuts in the state-run Medicaid program for home-care for people with disabilities.

• Lawsuit filed against 'election integrity' commission

  A voting rights group has filed a lawsuit against the so-called election integrity commission that's likely nothing a Trump vehicle for voter roll purges. Talking Points Memo reports.

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• Former attorneys general, including two Arkansans, denounce hate, Alabama style

  The New York Times reports in depth today on a letter signed by 67 former state attorneys general, including Steve Clark and Jim Guy Tucker, calling on political leaders to unequivocally condemn hate.

• Waltons give UA $120 million to establish School of Art

  The Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation has made a $120 million gift to establish a School of Art at the University of Arkansas.

• Womack gets questions. He doesn't answer

  The resistance mustered a turnout for a rare public appearance by U.S. Rep. Steve Womack, which meant a ferry ride from Peel, Ark., and a drive almost to Missouri. He didn't seem happy to see them.

• Rutledge touts effort to allow discrimination against gay people

  Attorney General Leslie Rutledge is braying about her intervention in yet another out-of-state lawsuit — this one to protect a Washington state florist who doesn't want to sell flowers to gay people for use at their wedding.

• Fort Smith and contempt for open government

  Is there really any doubt that some members of the Fort Smith City Directors spit on the state Freedom of Information Act?

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