He’ll be missed by the press, no doubt. Except there’s still a trial to come.

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On Friday, 01.30, The Think Tank and David Kinkade of The Arkansas Project will be talking to the Arkansas Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators. The lunch is at the Little Rock Club atop the Regions Bank building at 11:30 a.m.  Call Neal Moore of The Communications Group at 501.376.8722 to make a [...]

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That’s the topic of Jessica Dean’s “Choose Your News” segment tonight on the KATV Channel 7 6:00 p.m. newscast. Unless she and her producers left me on the cutting room floor, some part of my interview will be aired along with that of fellow blogger Jason Tolbert of the Flip Cam-endorsed The Tolbert Report.

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John Dickerson of Slate.com explores how President Barack Obama is using booze to develop a good working relationship with Congress. He opines, “It’s good news. First, drinking in moderation leads to an equitable distribution of the humors, and we want our president to be healthy. Second, among adversaries, drinking promotes relaxation and laughter. I doubt [...]

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The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, which makes clear that workers may bring a lawsuit for up to six months after they receive any paycheck that they allege is discriminatory. “I sign this bill for my daughters, and all those who will come after us because I want them to grow up in a [...]

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With only the votes from Democrats, the House passed President Barack Obama’s $819 billion Economic Recovery Plan. The matter now heads to the Senate where Mike Allen of Politico reports that “Later today, MoveOn, Americans United for Change, AFSCME and SEIU will be announcing a new ad campaign on the stimulus. The ads will target [...]

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About 42,000 Southwestern Electric Power customers in Benton, Carroll and Washington counties remained without electricity Thursday afternoon, said spokesman Peter Main. The bulk of the outages were in Washington County where 32,862, were without power. In Benton County, 8,339 customers were powerless and Caroll County had about 900.

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A couple of state lawmakers are out to expand Arkansas’ graduated driver’s license for teens.  State Rep. Gene Shelby, D-Hot Springs, says he and Sen. Jimmy Jeffress, D-Crossett, will file a bill Monday similar to one Jeffress sponsored two years ago that passed the Senate but died in the House.  Shelby says he thinks the proposal has a [...]

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On the jump is an e-mail from DHS Director John Selig, apparently sent to all DHS employees, providing information about Gov. Mike Beebe’s cigarette tax/health initiative. He urges those who decide to lobby legislators for the plan to do so on their own time on non-state equipment. I guess Selig’s e-mail, strictly speaking, isn’t lobbying, just informational. Since it was [...]

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