NY Times mentions fund-raising efforts of PACs tied to prominent Republican politicians: Former Gov. Sarah Palin’s political action committee, SarahPAC, raised $2.1 million in 2009, $1.4 million of which rolled in during the last six months of the year, after she resigned as governor on July 3. The number puts her on nearly even footing with [...]

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John Brummett invited outgoing U.S. Rep. Marion Berry to amend/expand an unflattering comment about President Obama’s role in the health care debate. He expanded. He’s not impressed by the Obama team. His compelling point is that the Blue Dogs were proven right — and by a state, Massachusetts, with nary a Blue Dog in sight. They were [...]

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Fort Smith Regional Airport now is better equipped to deal with wet winter weather with the Jan. 7 delivery of a new, $112,620 snow plow and truck.

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Times Record Staff UAW Local 716 responded Tuesday to a possible layoff of 197 hourly workers at Trane’s Zero Street plant.

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The Fort Smith Advertising and Promotions Commission approved a $5,000 allocation of tourism grant funds to the Lincoln High School Alumni Association on Tuesday.

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Many Sherwood residents were not yet born when, on April 4, 1968, Trumann native Gerald Jumper, using the stage name Ray Sherman, sat on a stool in front of a camera in the WMC-TV studios in Memphis and announced to the world that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had just been shot and killed at [...]

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As part of its efforts to tighten oversight of internal controls and outside auditors following accounting scandals at Enron Corp., WorldCom and Tyco International, Congress created the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

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In spite of a recession that is the worst since the Great Depression of the 1920s and 1930s, we still have a lot for which to be grateful this Thanksgiving.

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The North Little Rock City Council and Mayor Patrick Hays may not be done fighting about the replacement for Alderman Cary Gaines, who resigned Nov. 20. And we doubt that we’re finished commenting on the process.

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We never know what a year will bring when we turn that first page on a calendar. A certainty of life is that it will include joy, sadness, merriment and some worry. But we are unable to see what form all of those will take.

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