Charlie Frago with the Arkansas Democrat Gazette reports on a story that has been floating around Republican circles for sometime now. As Frago reports, Republican candidate for the First Congressional District Rick Crawford filed for bankruptcy some 16 years old, for $12,611.67 of debts including $7,500 in credit card debt and $4,200 in medical bills. Crawford [...]

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Yesterday, a federal court issued an injunction against a significant portion of Arizona’s new immigration law.  Republican Jim Keet, who is running for governor of Arkansas, issued a statement saying he supported the Arizona law, opposed the court’s ruling, and criticized Gov. Mike Beebe with the familiar line that he did not speak out enough. “The [...]

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Arkansas Times’ annual “Best of Arkansas” came out today as voted on by their readers and low and behold, you voted me runner-up on the best local blog category. Of course, first place went to Arkansas Times’ own Arkansas Blog who you have to admit sort of had home field advantage, although honestly who can keep [...]

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KFSM in Fayetteville is reporting that abortist William Harrison is closing the doors to his abortion clinic in nothwest Arkansas for health reasons. In an ABC News story a few year ago, Harrison said he had performed over 10,000 abortions and was comfortable with the taking of life. I now write a column for Stephen Media in [...]

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The Republican Party of Arkansas posted its final adopted 2010 Platform this morning on it website. As noted earlier, a few changes were made from the floor.  The most noticable is some changes to the immigration section.  In the orginal platform committee draft, one paragraph read… “We support English being recognized as the official language of the [...]

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The reality is that for as long as Arkansas has had two parties, Arkansans have voted Democrat by default unless a Republican has given them a good reason to vote otherwise.  However, a poll released by Gallup shows this trend could be changing. The Gallup poll shows that 41% of Arkansans currently identify themselves as Republicans [...]

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Speaking of Americans for Job Security, according to Politico, it seems they are targeting Billy Long in the Missouri 7th Congressional Republican Primary. MO7 is one of the more interesting Congressional primaries for a variety of reasons. Long is running of a reform message against earmarks. The AJS ad accuses him of supporting earmarks. Long says [...]

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A controversial piece of election finance reform legislation being pushed by President Obama may come up for a vote in the Senate as soon as this afternoon.  The DISCLOSE Act would require certain corporations, labor unions, and special interest groups to disclose their donor list that fund their political spending. The Arkansas Democratic Senate primary between [...]

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It is no secret to regular Tolbert Report readers that I have become a fan of DC Morrison.  He gave a pretty good speech at the Republican Party of Arkansas state convention this weekend where he said he is proud to be a Conservative Democrat and has no plans to switch parties. That is why I [...]

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The Fort Smith Housing Authority on Thursday unanimously approved its redevelopment plan as part of an initiative to revitalize low-income areas of the city.

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