Craig Moon, the publisher of USA Today, is leaving to pursue other opportunities at age 59. He was publisher of the Arkansas Gazette during the last red in-soaked years of Gannett’s ownership of the paper. A reader on former Gazette business editor Jim Hopkins’ thoroughly unauthorized Gannett blog comments: So, let’s get this straight: – Moon got his [...]

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Craig Moon, the Gannettoid "publisher" sent in to preside over the death of the Arkansas Gazette (when not out jogging with female employees), has presided over the decline of the chain’s flagship, and now wants to leave. Jim Hopkins’ Gannett Blog reports: I have been informed of an extraordinary power shift at the nation’s top-circulation newspaper: Publisher [...]

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Rep. Mark Martin’s bill to allow for the open carry of firearms and other weapons failed on a voice vote this morning in House Judiciary. Prior to the vote, the bill was amended to provide for a minimum age of 21.

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A Texas man who’s submitted multiple ballot issue proposals to allow casino gambling in Arkansas has had his latest idea certified as to form by the attorney general. He got one approved in 2006, too, but dropped a signature drive to get it on the ballot. I wouldn’t hold my breath, but this one would [...]

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Don’t hold your breath. The environment is a low priority in a state where the controlling powers are bent on killing us with more coal-fired power plants. But, I hear, there will be one last run at a broad energy conservation bill in House committee Wednesday. It promises enormous savings to citizens at virtually no cost [...]

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The last time the Watson Chapel baseball team played a game before Monday was a week and a half ago, in a consolation game of the Billy Bock Classic at Taylor Field.

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Major changes in the way local sales taxes are now collected in Arkansas helps swell municipal coffers of a number of cities by double digits.

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Moses came down from the mountain with these tablets from God listing the Ten Things You Must Disclose.

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A report that a vehicle was blocking the entrance at the Big Red Travel Plaza on U.S. 270 Sunday morning resulted in the arrest of two people after drugs were found in the vehicle.

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Drivers around town have been parting with more money at the pump in recent days as spring weather draws out desires to hit the open road.

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