Arkansas Lottery Commissioners Dianne Lamberth and Joe White recently appeared on KTHV-11 for an interview about the progress of the state lottery. Here’s the video: Post from: Robbie…

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Arkansas Lottery Commissioners Dianne Lamberth and Joe White recently appeared on KTHV-11 for an interview about the progress of the state lottery. Here’s the video: Post from: Robbie…

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KATV reports a fire last night at Klappenbach Bakery, Fordyce’s claim to food fame. No word yet on extent of the damage. Updates welcome.

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I don’t follow sports closely. Maybe I missed this previously. But I noticed on Stephens Media today this story, about former Hog basketball player Patrick Beverley. Says he left the team because of academic cheating — turning in a paper written by someone else. The somewhat more incendiary part of the story: Last week in an interview conducted [...]

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When Judge Sonia Sotomayor joins the U.S. Supreme Court, she will be its sixth Catholic. But, as commentators note in this article, there are different types of Catholics. She will not likely join the four-member bloc of movement conservative Catholics — Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, Alito.

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Brummett describes the coming shuffle in which most of the current statewide ministerial officeholders expect to move from one term-limited job to another, led by the eternal Charlie Daniels, who’ll seek to add a third of the jobs, auditor, to his resume.

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OK. Let’s round up some Sotomayor reading this fine Sunday morning. A focus seems to have emerged for right-wing attacks. It is Judge Sonia’s statement on a panel once that she thought a wise Latina woman judge could bring richer experience to a better legal ruling than an old white male judge could bring.  First, I’m getting [...]

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President Barack Obama: I am taking my wife to New York City because I promised her during the campaign that I would take her to a Broadway show after it was all finished. The Obamas ate at Blue Hill, a West Village restaurant and attended “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” the Tony-nominated August Wilson play. The Republican National [...]

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From TIME: As Twitter grows, it will increasingly become a place where companies build brands, do research, send information to customers, conduct e-commerce and create communities for their users. Some industries, like local retail, could be transformed by Twitter — both at one-store operations that cater to customers within a few blocks of their locations and [...]

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The great newspaper discussion continues today in The Los Angeles Times. Columnist Tim Rutten opines that there is something President Barack Obama can do to save newspapers. The problem is that newspapers can’t begin charging for online content or licensing their journalism to search engines unless all the English-speaking papers do it at once. That’s currently [...]

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