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Three state officials get special deals on Razorback tickets 27 Aug 2013 | 05:16 pm
The University of Arkansas Athletic Department responded yesterday to my Freedom of Information Act request for names of other statewide officers who, like Lt. Gov. Mark Darr, got priority seats for R...
What a difference an oil spill makes in U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin's rhetoric 27 Aug 2013 | 04:54 pm
Nothing like a backyard oil spill to make a hard-bitten anti-regulation Republican congressman a little more receptive to increased federal regulation. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Aug. 27, 2013. Fede...
Saline Sheriff Pennington's plea bargain brings release of police video 27 Aug 2013 | 04:24 pm
Saline County Sheriff Bruce Pennington entered a plea bargain yesterday to public intoxication and resisting arrest in an altercation with Benton police who stopped him from driving home from Denton's...
Wanted: 600 volunteers to help kids learn to read 27 Aug 2013 | 04:14 pm
I'm sorry I failed to get around to this yesterday. It's an announcement of an effort by AR Kids Read to recruit 600 people to help tutor elementary kids in Pulaski County schools. Here and statewide ...
Philander Smith sets lecture series; includes speaker shunned for Arkansas high school graduation 27 Aug 2013 | 04:02 pm
Philander Smith College has announced the speakers in its annual Bless the Mic lecture series, always thought-provoking. Charles S. Dutton, the actor, director and speaker, starts the free series at ...
Shamrock, Texas: When a place for the dead can be both a cemetery and a graveyard at the same time 27 Aug 2013 | 12:33 pm
As I leaned against the tombstone under the hot Texas sun (using a pen to remove burrs from my socks and the inside of my shoes) I considered that the Shamrock Cemetery, with its sections of pristine ...
Mayflower residents to Tim Griffin: "We need help" with oil-related illnesses 27 Aug 2013 | 03:40 am
U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin Monday called Gov. Mike Beebe's office to suggest the state pursue further health assessments for residents of Mayflower affected by the March 29 oil spill. Griffin promised to ...
Arts Council visual artist honorees: Pennebaker, LaTourette, Posnak 27 Aug 2013 | 03:38 am
Glass artist Ed Pennebaker of Osage, furniture designer and UA professor Timothy LaTourette of Fayetteville and ceramist Adam Posnak of West Fork have won Individual Artist Fellowship Awards from the ...
UPDATE: University of Arkansas releases reason for firing John Diamond; he responds 27 Aug 2013 | 03:25 am
The University of Arkansas today released in response to my FOI the letter by which John Diamond was fired as the university's top spokesman. It also released his response. Hot off the press: [pdf-1...
Bats out, new works in at the Arts Center 27 Aug 2013 | 02:18 am
Arts Center Director Todd Herman drew hearty laughs today at the Arts Center's annual meeting in announcing that the Rembrandt show had to be closed on Friday because of an invasion of bats. He said K...
