Whatever happens on the health care vote today, the trend is in, as I Twittered earlier. A year ago, “Obamacare” was the item Republicans for the Arkansas Legislature were running upon. As late as September and October, it was expected to carry Republicans into a 55-seat or greater majority in the House. By election day [...]
View Post Democrats, GOP, health careMike Beebe has returned to Arkansas to reclaim his rightful place as governor from part-timer Mark Darr, and the Real Governor says Darr’s signing of legislation while Beebe was gone was “totally inappropriate.” Beebe has a legitimate gripe. Before he left for a National Governor’s Association meeting, Beebe made it clear he would not sign [...]
View PostPeople who don’t live up to their wedding vows aren’t normally trusted by the voters. That’s not a moral judgment on my part. That’s a political fact of life. State Attorney General Dustin McDaniel, the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for governor in 2014, admitted to “inappropriate” interaction with a Hot Springs women in 2011. [...]
View PostIt was quite a surprise to see the headline on the press release today from the Clinton House Museum in Fayetteville. “Clinton House Museum to host Jones exhibit,” it read. There’s a museum, I thought, dedicated to reflecting the good and the bad of the former president’s history. Imagine that, an exhibit dedicated to the [...]
View Post OpinionIt would surprise many people who know me to learn that I went to college at very conservative Harding University. There was a rape on campus while I was there. The girl attacked, who was engaged to a Bible major who is now (as far as I know) a pastor now. The rape caused a [...]
View PostOne-term Fayetteville Mayor Lioneld Jordan and former two-term mayor Dan Coody both say they will not accept the lucrative public pensions that would available to them for serving in that position. Coody already has taken the definitive step of transferring his city 401-K fund into a private IRA, which under law eliminated any possibility of [...]
View PostI’ve been following the illegal voting allegations of Alex Reed on the Arkansas Time blog since it began. (arktimes.com). Reed works for the Secretary of State’s office, which oversees voting. Reed said county clerks across the state aren’t verifying eligibility and that “I don’t know what to say about it, other than it’s kind of [...]
View PostThe community college administrator fired earlier this month for a lost of purported transgressions is asking for an appeal. Marty Parsons, the former senior vice president for administrative services and chief financial officer at Northwest Arkansas Community College, had filed an appeal to his firing. And he’s bringing a six-attorney law firm to the table [...]
View PostWhat the Overstuffed-Draw-String-Trash-Bags do you suppose is up with Maylon T. Rice, the director of the Boston Mountain Solid Waste District,(and a former reporter for the NWA Times during my era as its editor between 1995 and 2000)? Washington County Judge Marilyn Edwards announced the other day that Rice, also an unsuccessful Democrat candidate for [...]
View PostLook, I’ll readily admist that I’m far from being the sharpest pencil in the pack or crayon in the box, but I’m hoping someone with a crystal clear mind and ability to articulate can explain something for me when it comes to the way our government today defines mass killing. When a white supremecist shoots [...]
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