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Lu's saga: greed, arrogance
Finally, after agonizing drips of information, resisted at every turn by supposed public servants at a taxpayer-underwritten university, we can develop a reasonably coherent narrative in this brouhaha about Lu Hardin and the University of Central Arkansas. - Thursday, Jul 24, 2008

When inertia is your lifeblood
The state Democratic convention passed a rule Saturday saying that Dwayne Dobbins of North Little Rock may not run for state representative on the party's ticket. - Tue, Jul 22, 2008

When we'll all be equal
It happened again the other evening. A woman at dinner, accomplished and educated and refined and a friend, complained that Hillary Clinton was treated differently from a male presidential candidate. - Mon, Jul 21, 2008

Done with Lu? Nope
Now that Lu Hardin has given back the lied-about bonus of $300,000 from captive student expenditures at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, am I finished with him and any attendant issues? - Sun, Jul 20, 2008

Can Obama afford to be new?
The idea that Barack Obama offers a new kind of politics contains a substantive element beyond his "yes, we can" mantra and the rock star persona. - Sat, Jul 19, 2008

I seek truth, not facts
One thing we've always known in the newspaper business - or ought to have known - is that we're not necessarily being truthful by being factual. - Thu, Jul 17, 2008

We are all torturers
A new book by one of the nation's most highly regarded reporters reveals definitively that the United States has engaged in torture and false imprisonment. - Tue, Jul 15, 2008

Bar-none with Barr-Nunn
If you overhear something sounding like a bar-none strategy from Barack Obama and the Democrats, be advised that it will be spelled differently. - Mon, Jul 14, 2008

Tacky on top of tacky
They have this still-new grand hall at the Governor's Mansion. - Sun, Jul 13, 2008

Once more on UCA, with feeling
Could you stand one more column, for now, on the University of Central Arkansas and the no-longer secret bonus for Lu Hardin, the president? - Sat, Jul 12, 2008

Thinking at Harding
The big news is not that Mark Elrod is moving his blog from public to private so that only a hundred or so approved friends will be able to read and respond to it. - Thu, Jul 10, 2008

Lu Hardin's pattern
Not to beat a dissembling horse, but there are a couple of unfortunate loose ends on Lu Hardin's once-secret big bonus. - Tue, Jul 08, 2008

Caught red-handed in truth
Wesley Clark did nothing wrong except respond in kind to a newsman's question and do so honestly and frankly. - Mon, Jul 07, 2008

Huckabee extols our tough politics
In 1993 I found it necessary to defend the meanness of our state's politics. - Sun, Jul 06, 2008

Holiday weekend arrows
You know the holiday weekend drill. We fire arrows to reflect the supposed conventional wisdom. - Sat, Jul 05, 2008

How Lu Hardin didn't get a raise
Sometimes it's enough merely to tell the story. Readers may judge for themselves. - Thu, Jul 03, 2008

Warming the globe, protecting the economy
Environmental protection offers little to no political premium in Arkansas. - Tue, Jul 01, 2008

Whose Christianity? Which?
Barack Obama has been caught red-handed espousing an expansive rather than restrictive view of Christianity. - Mon, Jun 30, 2008

Book broker to the rescue
There's this lawyer in Washington who pretty much runs everything in that incestuous little company town where they do public service for personal profit. - Sun, Jun 29, 2008

When taxpayers buy publicity
This is too rich. It's about blurring news and advertising in the news media. - Sat, Jun 28, 2008

Challenge of the junior featherweight
Our junior columnist here at the Arkansas News Bureau - David Sanders, a former low-level aide to Mike Huckabee - publicly took me to task the other day. - Thu, Jun 26, 2008


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