The Crawford County Sheriff’s Office found a body Wednesday afternoon in the Arkansas River.

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Special to the Greenwood Democrat Charleston coach Randy Terry wasn’t especially pleased with Monday’s 52-46 win against Greenwood in the first round of the Citizens Bank Classic in Van Buren.

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ROLAND — Golfers and fans of the game have two good reasons to attend the 2013 Western Amateur Tournament at The Alotian Club. Both the players in the field and the course itself will be in the upper echelon of golf.

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PROTECT IP/SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo. There they are, your United States Congress, and they are going to stop online piracy NOW! Ah, and yet…The terrible Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is lurking in the U.S. House of Representatives, and its Senate companion, the also terrible PROTECT IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats [...]

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Our friend Roby Brock over at Talk Business bursts out of the post-holiday gate today with a good report on a leading state lawmaker’s proposals to reform the Arkansas tax code. Rep. Davy Carter, a Republican who heads up the House Revenue and Tax Committee, tells Talk Business he wants to explore ways to reduce the [...]

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Holiday week! Thanksgiving! Family obligations! That series of oddly decontextualized exclamations means you should have low expectations for new material on this blog the next couple of days. Well, that’s not exactly right, since you already have low expectations for this site. So you know those low expectations you have? OK, let’s go ahead and lower [...]

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We’ve been conducting an ongoing exploration of how economic stimulus funds from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (“Booooo! Hisssssss!”—Me) have been spent in Arkansas, based on the most recent report from the state Recovery office. What we’ve seen thus far has not presented a strong case for the efficacy of stimulus measures. For instance, [...]

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I gotta tell you, the thing about state government is, you can’t let your guard down for a second, or they’ll go doing something else more or less outrageous. Today’s entry: The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s Alison Sider reports on the ongoing state effort to force licensing on home remodeling contractors (subscription required). A law passed in this year’s [...]

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Yesterday we looked in on how Arkansas has fared in spending economic stimulus funds awarded under the 2009 American Reinvestment and Recovery Act. That whole exercise in futility is in the process of winding down, as the numbers show: The state has now spent some $2.9 billion of its $3.2 billion stimulus allotment. As we’ve noted, [...]

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Here it is a Monday in November and you’re just sitting there thinking, “Gee, I wonder how Arkansas is doing on spending its share of economic stimulus funding, as provided under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)? If only there were some way for me to check on that!” I know that is probably [...]

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