The Charleston Booster Club is sponsoring a spaghetti dinner in the high school cafeteria before the Charleston-Lamar basketball game this Saturday, January 31. Donations will go towards the Tiger Ring Fund. The Charleston-Lamar game will begin at 6pm.

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Meet Davy Carter. Freshman legislator from Cabot. Thanks to a reader, I’m notified of Rep. Carter’s maiden bill filing. It would require random testing for the presence of "illegal" drugs of ALL who receive services from the Department of Human Services. This presumably means foster children, the elderly, the infirm and mentally disabled, the whole [...]

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John Pelphrey just met with us media types to preview the LSU game. Gotta hurry and write a story because of our tight deadlines, but want to give you a few nuggets of information. • Pelphrey said Brandon Moore will be available after serving a two-game suspension. Pelphrey said Moore has learned a life lesson from [...]

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The Walton Arts Center is offering a free play this afternoon.

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The Democrat Party of Arkansas released a press release this morning saying there is now bipartisan support for the cigarette tax increase. They plan to have a rally at the state capital on Monday at 11:00 to prove it. However, it does not say who the Republicans are that support the tax hike. I guess [...]

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Today, the Republican National Committee will meet in Washington, DC to elect their officers. Even though the candidate I had supported, Chip Saltsman dropped out of the race on Thursday, there is still no consensus on who will win. The Washington Post’s blog The Fix has a good wrap up of where the candidates [...]

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More than half of Southwestern Energy Power Company’s customers who lost power Tuesday had their power restored as of 11 a.m. today, said Peter Main, company spokesman.

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Gerard Matthews is keeping up with natural gas exploration in the Fayetteville Shale on our Shale Watch blog.  Today’s posts include work on a new bill to protect landowners from greedy pipeline companies and the announcement of a meeting tomorrow in White County to address landowners’ concerns with the industry.

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Today, the Republican National Committee will meet in Washington, DC to elect their officers. Even though the candidate I had supported, Chip Saltsman dropped out of the race on Thursday, there is still no consensus on who will win. The Washington Post’s blog The Fix has a good wrap up of where the candidates [...]

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For the third time in two months, I’m headed back down to the bayou, this time to run in the New Orleans Marathon on Sunday morning. On one hand, I have a lot of pent up energy to release on this course from avoiding running in the cold weather this week, but on the [...]

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