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The publisher’s website is bookmarked on my laptop and PDA phone. Ever since I mailed off two signed copies of my first real book contract, I’ve been eagerly awaiting the return of my copy signed by the publisher. Each day there is that rise of hope and excitement when the mail arrives. Then the let down when [...]

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America’s most evil, Dick Cheney, went on Fox Sunday to decry a U.S. attorney general’s decision to investigate torture. Mary Jacoby, the Little Rock native and former Wall Street Journal reporter who wrote recently for the Arkansas Times about the state’s excessive spending on residential facilities for troubled kids, explains a bit of Cheney’s misinformation on her newish [...]

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Here’s some in NY Times: Nearly a year after the federal rescue of the nation’s biggest banks, taxpayers have begun seeing profits from the hundreds of billions of dollars in aid that many critics thought might never be seen again. The profits, collected from eight of the biggest banks that have fully repaid their obligations to the [...]

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Fright is the elemental emotion in the health debate, Brummett writes. Go to a town meeting. Except for the rabid anger, the most consistent thread is that people begin their comments anecdotally — about their own health care or that of a loved one. Four in five Americans have health insurance and, while occasionally exasperated by the [...]

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About 75 people gathered at Cabot city hall on Saturday to voice opposition to the health care proposals being advanced by the administration of President Obama. Amy Fletcher, of Austin, with children Dannie and Chance, joined about a dozen others lining South Second Street with signs declaring their feelings. “My mother is 80 years old [...]

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Startup of the new school year saw no unexpected problems, even with the opening of the new facilities of Cabot Junior High School North, schools Superintendent Tony Thurman said Friday.

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