-
-
-
Eye on Arkansas
-
Hundreds of people turned out at the Capitol on Monday for a vigil sponsored by the Arkansas Black Legislative Caucus as a response to the verdict in the Trayvon Martin case.
- by Brian Chilson
-
Tags: Eye on Arkansas
-
-
-
The Big Picture
-
The state's covenant marriage statute, which requires premarital counseling and makes it somewhat harder for couples to divorce, was popularized in 2005 by Gov. Mike Huckabee and his wife, Janet, whose Baptist vows apparently didn't suffice. The first couple, after many years of marriage and three children, decided it would make their union stronger if they got remarried under a new secular law on stage at Verizon Arena, the first lady famously decked out in red velvet.
-
Tags: The Big Picture, covenant marriage, Mike Huckabee
-
-
-
Arkansas Reporter
-
Frustration over the Trayvon Martin case boils into a protest at 12th and Jefferson.
- by David Koon
-
Tags: Arkansas Reporter, Deon Williams, Shemedia Shelton, George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin, Grant Humphries, Terry McDaniel, Bobby Moore, Josh Hastings, Asa Muhammad, Ernest Franklin, Schwanda Daugherty, Slideshow
-
-
The Observer
-
It rained last week, a brief, enticing shower that was just enough to wet the parking lot and spatter the window of The Observer's office with diamonds.
-
-
The Week That Was
-
It was also a good week for Mike Ross, a lawsuit seeking equality and Attorney General Dustin McDaniel. It was a bad week for Baptist Health, transparency and judicial activism.
-
-
Letters
-
Thank you for your story entitled, "Heroin Addict" (July 4). I really appreciated the way it avoided negative stereotypes and presented such a factual picture of addicts and addiction. Oh, it was wonderful. The photo was a great start.
-
-
Editorials
-
That all four U.S. representatives of a state with half a million food stamp recipients would vote against food stamps is a little startling, unless you know these fellows.
-
Tags: Editorials, Tom Cotton
-
-
Ernest Dumas
-
To appreciate the Republican triumph over America's poor last week, when the party's majority in the House of Representatives stripped food aid from the nation's farm bill, you must go back to Ronald Reagan's speeches about the Welfare Queen in his 1976 campaign for president against Gerald Ford.
- by Ernest Dumas
-
Tags: Ernest Dumas, Ronald Reagan, Tom Cotton, Rick Crawford
-
-
Words
-
"Have you noticed recently the use of the phrase 'run him over,' which I believe is a misuse of 'run over him'? I've heard it on the television news, and read it in the paper."
- by Doug Smith
-
-
-
Gene Lyons
-
No sooner had the jury's verdict in the George Zimmerman murder trial been announced than a journalist friend posted on my Facebook page: "If it weren't such a tragic case, I'd forgive you for feeling smug."
- by Gene Lyons
-
Tags: Gene Lyons, Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman
-
-
-
To-Do List
-
Also, Cruz Way at Juanita's; Reproacher and Primitive Man at Downtown Music Hall; Little Rock Fashion Week's Big Night at Robinson; Anthony Hamilton, The Whispers and Doug E. Fresh at First Security Amphitheater, and The Dangerous Idiots at White Water Tavern.
- by Robert Bell
-
Tags: To-Do List
-
-
In Brief
-
Also, The Trey Hawkins Band at Revolution.