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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Arkansas Republicans are gearing up for the fall election season with a “Super Saturday” volunteer effort.  Phone banking operation are going on all day at the following nine locations: Searcy, Springdale, Little Rock, Conway, Benton, Jonesboro, Fort Smith, El Dorado and Mountain Home. In addition, candidates will be touring the location to meet with volunteers. Rep. [...]

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The Republican Party of Arkansas put out an internal poll done by Diamond State Consulting Group that shows Republican with a leg up heading into the campaign season.  As always, take internal polls with a grain of salt but this poll conducted was conducted between July 27 to 29 on 1,242 likely voters on Secretary [...]

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Sen. Blanche Lincoln announced today that she has the backing of the state’s largest teacher’s union, the Arkansas Educators Association.  This is no real surprise as the AEA always backs the Democrat. What is surprising is that Sen. Lincoln is sending out press releases touting union support.  It was not to long ago that she was [...]

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Former Republican Congressional candidate Kurt Maddox put out a press release today saying that he plans to run for the mayor of Rogers, although he stopped just short of making the announcement official. “I look forward to the possibility of rolling up my sleeves for the people of Rogers at a time when there is little [...]

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Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe and State Sen. Shane Broadway – candidate lieutenant governor – share so much in common that Broadway’s opponent has said that Broadway will simply be a yes man to Beebe if elected. But they already differ however slightly on one key policy – tax increases. While Beebe is holding firm that he [...]

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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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