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		<title>Open line: Barefoot and pregnant edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The line is open. Final shot:
* REPUBLICANS AND UNEQUAL RIGHTS: This looks like a loser to me, but Republican messaging has triumphed before over common sense. Sen. Mitch McConnell says Republicans will fight to the death to allow an opt-out for preventive health care for women (birth control pills and other contraceptive devices) from employer-provided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The weather freakout</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing else to do, so I scanned the weather sources for the Little Rock forecast on Monday. As ever, Pulaski seems to sit on a dividing line that could go in many directions:
* Weather Channel — high 36, 1 to 2 inches of snow and ice.
* Weather Underground — high 32, ice pellets.
* AccuWeather — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gov. Beebe will go to China</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nixon did. Why not Gov. Mike Beebe? Roby Brock reports on the governor&#8217;s planned trade trip to Asia.
Everybody does them so they must be productive, right?
I notice the item mentions Beebe&#8217;s trade trip to Europe and credits it with job creation, including at Dassault Falcon. Actually, there have been big layoffs at Dassault Falcon, no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The growing safety net</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s something for just about everyone in a New York Times examination of the growing safety net cost in the federal government.
I naturally love the anecdote about the Tea Party sympathizer, with his disdain for government spending on the non-productive, who enjoys the earned income tax credit, free breakfasts and lunches for his children and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bishop Woosley chosen as Arkansas Lottery director</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
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Today&#8217;s THV
NEW LOTTERY DIRECTOR: Bishop Woosley


FLASH NEWS RELEASE:

The Arkansas Lottery Commission tonight at 7:45 p.m. named William Bishop Woosley as the new Director of the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery.  Woosley, the Lottery’s Chief Legal Counsel since its startup in mid-2009, will be paid $165,000 annually.
The decision followed a day-long meeting of the Commissioners with all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday night&#8217;s alright for an open line</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
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Your comments welcome. A few things:
* HOMELESS COALITION BACKS VETS CENTER ON MAIN: The Arkansas Homeless Coalition has voted to support location of a VA day center at 10th and Main Streets, a location opposed by Mayor Mark Stodola and U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin.  In a letter to Stodola, the coalition said the VA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dreams of riches</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
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OK, why not help the poor Arkansas lottery and mention that April Burnside won $1 million by buying a $20 lottery ticket at a tobacco store in Hamburg. (She actually only got to keep about $680,000 after tax withholding.)
And why not mention that the Powerball jackpot to be drawn for today is up to $325 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using women&#8217;s bodies to beat health care reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure I totally agree with Gail Collins of the New York Times — I do think a lot of the tempest over birth control was about birth control and some religionists&#8217; desire to cram their faith down the throats of those who don&#8217;t share their opposition to birth control pills. But she makes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Koch-head watch: beach retreat on education</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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I guess you noticed that Jason Rapert and Co., who propose to put state legislatures like Arkansas&#8217;s in charge of the federal budget, brought in a hired hand from the Koch-financed American Legislative Exchange Council (a thinly disguised lobby for anti-tax, anti-regulation and other pet billionaire causes) for their publicity stunt this week.
More on ALEC&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Dustin McDaniel spends your money</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
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YOUR MONEY: Questions on how Attorney General Dustin McDaniel chose to spend it.


Belatedly last night, I began thinking about the 49-state settlement of a legal action against  five major banks over mortgage foreclosure practices. The proposed terms await approval by a federal judge. Specifically, I started thinking about Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel&#8217;s decision [...]]]></description>
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