Huckabee opened his Fox News show today by denying rumors floating around cyberspace this week. Some saying he is not running while most now saying he likely is running. “I think the whole process starts ridiculously early, is obscenely expensive, and is disastrously focused way to much on the circus side show of personal issues [...]

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It’s not everyday you can have you gas pumped by your Congressman.  But if you live in Springdale you had the chance this afternoon to have Congressman Steve Womack fill up your tank and hear from you about how to bring down gas price.

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According to a post in Politico today, Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Jay Bradford said that he does not plan to apply for a wavier to the new medical loss ratio (MLR) rules as several other states have done.  As part of the new health care reform legislation, the regulations require that health insurance companies spend at [...]

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The first debate/non-debate/forum/discussion/joint press conference/whatever for the Republican Presidential primary is tonight in New Hampshire, sponsored by Americans for Prosperity. According to their blog, it will included Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, and Herman Cain.  Their blog says that this will be “the first opportunity the presidential candidates will have to detail [...]

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Editor’s note: The following story is a collaborative effort among Roby Brock (Talk Business), Matt Campbell (Blue Hog Report), Michael Tilley (The City Wire), and Jason Tolbert (The Tolbert Report). A communications policy plan adopted by the Arkansas House of Representatives designed to avoid public property being used for commercial gain also raises Constitutional questions. [...]

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KATV’s Scott Inman sat down for an extended segment with Gov. Huckabee today on which aired tonight in central Arkansas.  In it, he sounds like he is inching closer to a decision to run. From their report… But, it’s Huckabee’s prolonged decision that could be making his biggest employer a little anxious. A report this [...]

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Put this one in the hard to believe category.  In 2008, Arkansas State Trooper Thomas Weindruch arrested photographer Bill Lawson for taking his picture at the scene of a fire.  Now Weindruch, who has become a photo enthusiast is using the picture Lawson took of him as his profile picture on his Capture Arkansas photo [...]

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Gov. Mike Beebe has a vacation planned each year to go golfing with his chief of staff Morril Harriman however this year he had to cancel.  He planned to leave the state of Tuesday meaning Lieutenant Governor Mark Darr would be in charge while he was out of the state.  However, the storms that roared [...]

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The Arkansas Supreme Court has denied Tom Fite’s appeal in the case that ruled him illegible for state representative election. In six page opinion, the Court ruled that Fite did not file a notice of appeal in time for them to consider the case.  They wrote… “In this instance, Fite did not file a notice [...]

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Mitch Daniels has a major decision to make today and it is not only whether he will run for President.  The Indiana legislator approved a state measure similar to the federal measure considered earlier this month that would defund state Planned Parenthood programs.  The measure would cut the appropriation of $3 million in federal funds [...]

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