Col. James Otey, commander of Little Rock Air Force Base and its 19th Airlift Wing, emphatically stressed the need for more schools in central Arkansas to serve the needs of the community, the Air Force and its families.

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Cabot Chamber of Commerce News The Cabot Chamber of Commerce Education Committee annually hosts the New Teacher Lunches for the Cabot Public Schools.

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I suspect the debate over whether the University of Arkansas football team should play games in Little Rock will always be with us. I spent more than nine years working in the office of Gov. Mike Huckabee. During that long tenure, guess which issue generated more calls, letters and e-mails to the governor’s office than any [...]

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It’s with some sadness that The Think Tank bids farewell to Zack “It’s with a K” Stovall, a.k.a Nick, who wrote for Stephens Media and ran an entertaining and wordy blog that often lampooned me and my arch nemesis, John Brummett. Mr. Stovall’s heading north, to St. Louis, where a young lady that he likes [...]

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Contrary to GOP Noise Machine propaganda, the "cash for clunkers" car rebate program is imperiled because it’s too popular. The money has been snapped up. The problem is not administration, though the rush of claims has certainly jammed up the system. Here’s the good news for clunker owners: The Obama administration vows today that the program WILL [...]

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County Judge David Bisbee has confirmed Helen Peltier as Benton County’s new election coordinator.

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David Sanders of Stephens Media has an op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal about philanthropy in America. He attended a three-day conference on rural philanthropy hosted by the Council on Foundations at the William J. Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock. Expressing concern over the role that philanthropists are playing in policy making, Mr. Sanders [...]

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That’s the suggestion from Hendrik Hertzberg of the New Yorker, seconding Tina Brown, on what to do about Blue Dog obstructionism of health legislation. Get Bill Clinton to bring them into the Obama fold. Hertzberg throws in a plug for Sidney Blumenthal, too, as an aide to Hillary Clinton. The Obama team has barred him.

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Sad numbers here. The "birther" nonsense — that Barack Obama was not born in the U.S. and thus is ineligible to be president – has gotten little traction anywhere except among Republican members of Congress and the South. In Dixie, only 47 percent apparently believe that Obama is eligible to be president. Would somebody please ask U.S. Rep. John Boozman if [...]

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Prosecutors say they"ll seek the death penalty against a man accused of killing a soldier outside of an Arkansas Army recruiting center.from Channel 7

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