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Arkansas Blog: Other reading to start the day

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:16:21 -0500

Noted reading:

* An extensive obit today in the New York Times on Donald Harington.

* The New Yorker posts a glowing review on a book by former Arkansan Caleb Smith, an assistant professor of English at Yale who went to high school in Fayetteville, "The Prison and the American [...]

Arkansas Blog: Mormons back some equal rights

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:12:07 -0500

This is big news, given the Mormon Church's past and continued vigor in working to defeat same-sex marriage. In Salt Lake City, it endorsed a local ordinance banning discrimination against gays in employment and housing.

In its statement backing the ordinance, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [...]

Arkansas Blog: Bingo!

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:06:04 -0500

Alabama is roiling with a gambling debate that, it occurs to me, could migrate to these precincts. Alabama has legal charity bingo, as Arkansas does. Ever looking for more efficient ways to separate gamblers from their money, bingo operators there have put bingo games on electronic machines. Call them slot [...]

Arkansas Blog: Lincoln for her defense

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:00:42 -0500

Brummett recounts a conversation with Sen. Blanche Lincoln defending the care in which she believes she's worked to reach acceptable health legislation.

No, she still won't say if she'll be the critical filibuster vote roadblock to a Democratic bill that doesn't suit her in every way. That will be' [...]

Lynch at Large: Here are your Thursday morning Arkansas headlines (wish I could say “enjoy”)

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:17:19 -0500

U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln opposes adding new abortion restrictions to legislation overhauling the nation’s health care system. Lincoln says she supports the current federal restrictions on abortion funding but said the House amendment goes too far by prohibiting what private plans can offer. The Arkansas Department of Health has set tentative [...]

Arkansas Watch: Napolitano Quotes Jefferson on State Nullification

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:53:00 -0500

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**************************We DON't want or need a constitutional convention. The one we have is fine, it is simply not adhered to. If that is the problem, why would a new one help us? The call for a ConCon is a trap from the neocons who don't care for the protections and [...]

Arkansas Tonight: Hannity caught lying about health care rallies

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:58:00 -0500

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Arkansas Tonight: Lou Dobbs leaving CNN

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:41:00 -0500

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CNN might be getting back to it's roots in news after Lou Dobbs announced tonight that he is leaving the network effective immediately.

For months rumors across the blogosphere have suggested that Dobbs might jump ship to Fox Business. Many others have made [...]

Arkansas Blog: Pressly Trial -- Wednesday Wrap Up

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:14:17 -0500

WEDNESDAY WRAPUP:

EMOTIONAL: Anne Pressly's mother, Patti Cannady, is comforted following her testimony in penalty phase of the trial of her daughter's killer. Brian Chilson photo.

Court ended Wednesday without a decision on whether Curtis Lavelle Vance will spend the rest of his life in prison or die for [...]

Arkansas Tonight: Curtis Vance found guilty in murder of Anne Pressly

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:35:00 -0500

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Curtis Vance has been found guilty in the murder of KATV morning anchor Anne Pressly. The jury took less than three hours to deliberate Vance's fate.

The jury found Vance guilty of theft of property, burglary, rape and murder. In a statement this' [...]

Arkansas Blog: Open line

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:17:39 -0500

Here and now. [...]

Arkansas Blog: Remembering Anne Pressly

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:12:51 -0500

After the verdict was returned in the beating death of Anne Pressly, her colleagues at Channel 7 paid tribute to her memory in several ways, beginning with an eight-minute special on her life during the newscast.

Channel 7 also announced the publication of a book tribute to [...]

The Tolbert Report: Sen. Blanche Lincoln Opposes Abortion Restrictions on Health Care Reform

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:59:11 -0500

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It has become increasingly different to follow exactly what Sen. Blanche Lincoln’s position is on a variety of issues. The funding of abortions as part of the health care debate is just the latest example. If seems her position has changed again today from what she told me when we [...]

Arkansas Blog: The Vader clan backs Tim Griffin

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:47:34 -0500

More D.C. fund-raising for Republican congressional hopeful Tim Griffin. Get a load of the host list:

Elliot Berke, Bob Brooks, Liz Cheney,
Cathy & Ed Gillespie, Ken Mehlman,
Secretary Jim Nicholson, Matt Rhoades,
Alex & Senator Jill Vogel
Cordially invite you to a Reception in support of
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Arkansas Blog: Lincoln: Too far on abortion

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:23:36 -0500

U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln seems to have reiterated today what she said yesterday. That new limits on abortion coverage in House-passed health legislation go too far.

Indeed. As this analysis shows, the proposal would effectively end abortion insuance coverage by any company that hoped to participate in expanded [...]

ARRA News Service: ARRA Salutes Our Veterans & the Men & Women Serving in the Military

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:09:04 -0500

This note from a friend and is worth sharing with all our readers because her words are said and thought by many on this day:
Thank you for your service to our country, for preserving our precious American way of life, and for the sacrifices you've made' [...]

The Arkansas Project: Tribute to Our Veterans

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:08:17 -0500

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A moving tribute to our veterans…

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Arkansas Blog: Dithering Dems

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:26:29 -0500

Harold Meyerson wonders what's so different between 2009 and two previous eras when Democrats were elected by a substantial margin "on a platform of urgent change" and held majorities in both houses of Congress - think 1933 and FDR, 1965 and LBJ. He comes up with two answers. First, the GOP [...]

Blake's Think Tank: The Ft. Hood Speech

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:16:00 -0500

From John Dickerson in Slate:

His speech was a song to an entire generation: his generation. The first president of the post-Baby Boomer generation was making the claim for the men and women he commands, a host of whom he will send into Afghanistan in the coming weeks. “We need [...]

Arkansas Blog: 'I feel pretty good'

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:07:37 -0500

CONVICTED: Curtis Vance led from court after verdict.

Curtis Lavelle Vance has been convicted on all counts in the beating death of KATV's Anne Pressly.

The Pulaski Circuit Court jury, which got the case at 12:45 p.m., returned shortly after 3 p.m. with the required unanimous' [...]

Blake's Think Tank: The Blanche Lincoln Ad

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:04:00 -0500

Funded by the liberal Blue America PAC, and running in Arkansas.

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Blake's Think Tank: Clinton Talks to Brantley About Health Care

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:53:07 -0500

President Bill Clinton spoke to Arkansas Times editor Max Brantley this week about a variety of topics including the fifth anniversary of his presidential library to the health care debate in Washington. Regarding health care Mr. Clinton observed,

. . . For one thing, I think it’s going to pass. [...]