Yesterday The Think Tank exchanged e-mails with a member of the GOP currently living in Pennsylvania about the decision by Sen. Arlen Specter to change political parties. The student wrote, in part: We still don’t have a leader of the party, we better get on that before 2010 or its going to be extremely ugly. I don’t [...]

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Rep. Steve Harrelson linked to this report yesterday on his blog and others have started to talk about it as well, so I thought I’d post it here.  It’s from the Bureau of Legislative Research, and it’s basically a not-so-boring look, seriously, at the state’s economic figures, education statistics and a whole lot more.  Lots of visuals and [...]

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Ain’t nothin’ but a protest pose. In the forgotten trends section of Great Arkansas Contributions to Humanity, "hunkerin’" grabs our attention today. A Time dispatch, from 1959, offers a nice primer. To last year’s campus craze for stuffing people into telephone booths, the University of Arkansas last week added a saner fad: "hunkerin." It means squatting on the [...]

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LOWELL — Shareholders Thursday elected three board members and ratified an accounting firm in the same amount of time it takes a J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. truck to drive eight miles.

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LITTLE ROCK — The University of Central Arkansas will honor all scholarship offers sent from its admissions office for the 2009-2010 academic year, the university announced Thursday, after the office earlier notified hundreds of prospective students the scholarship fund had been depleted.

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A few weeks back David Kinkade of Arkansas Project fame broke the news that “Jonesboro businessman Rick Crawford is weighing a Republican challenge to Democratic Rep. Marion Berry in 2010.”  If you are like me, your first thought was great but who’s Rick Crawford.  “The Iron Man” NASCAR driver number 14? No, although state Rep. [...]

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SPRINGDALE — Strength in the defense and medical sectors contributed to $72.21 million in third quarter sales for St. Louis-based LaBarge Inc.

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Oh, heavens, Arkansas may have lost its coveted status as a “safe haven” from the dreaded swine plague, according to this 40/29 report from Benton County claiming a dozen “probable” cases of the much-hyped flu in our beloved northwest corner. Our day of reckoning has arrived…. …or has it? State health officials say no swine flu [...]

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Word comes in that Republican Prissy Hickerson of Texarkana, who chaired the Arkansas Highway Commission under Gov. Mike Huckabee, is considering a run for the state House of Representatives in District 1, the seat currently held by term-limited House Majority Leader and blogger extraordinaire Steve Harrelson. (Harrelson’s running for state Senate.) Hickerson says she’s been talking [...]

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