I quit early Tuesday, preferring not to peak through my fingers at the conclusion of the horror show. So the mopup: * IT WAS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE: Early returns showed moderate (in the Republican context) candidates leading several hotly contested state Senate primaries in Northwest Arkansas, though it had become apparent before I quit [...]

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The League of United Latin American Citizens has decided to challenge the Little Rock School Board’s recent redrawing of school board zone boundaries. The map diminished the influence of the district’s growing Latino population to the advantage of three of the four black members of the Board, who voted together for the map 4-3. An e-mail [...]

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Too early to say anything about congressional race trends. But, if the tiny early vote were to hold true: * 1st DISTRICT DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY: Scott Elllington would defeat Clark Hall and Gary Latanich and avoid a runoff. * 4th DISTRICT DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY: Sen. Gene Jeffress, who had virtually no campaign at all, has a hefty lead over [...]

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The secretary of state has started posting returns. Too early to mean anything, but I’ll take comfort that, in the first tally, Barack Obama has 66 percent of the vote — 1,392 to 716— despite an avalanche for free publicity for crank candidate John Wolfe. But when the 4th District comes in, who knows? Mitt Romney [...]

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Here’s an open line. I’ll undoubtedly come back for some election night posts as events and spirits move. Final words for now: * NOT SO BON VOYAGE: You might have heard about a US Airways plane en route from France to Charlotte that was diverted to a landing in Maine with militry escort because a woman [...]

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GOES TOO FAR: This video by U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin stretches the truth, a nonpartisan fact-check organization says. What a shock. U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin has been caught taking liberties with the truth again. Here, factcheck.org blows up one of his favorite themes of late — that welfare deadbeats are costing the U.S. zillions with a program [...]

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CRIME SCENE: Red police tape barely visible behind the black pickup marks house where shootings occured. Police blocked off a long stretch of the street to canvass neighbors and search for evidence. Details remain sketchy but indications are that a suspected burglar was killed by police fleeing a house at 204 Thayer Street in which one [...]

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THANKS BUT NO THANKS: Mitt Romney couldn’t bring himself to name George W. Bush after he gave Romney his elevator-is-closing endorsement. Ernie Dumas writes this week about Mitt Romney’s dilemma — how, really, can he avoid mentioning George Bush, whose policies put the country into an econommic free-fall? Read on: [ Subscribe to the comments on this story [...]

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You tell your kids, don’t you, that the Internet is immortal? That anybody with a computer can see what you’ve posted on Facebook and Twitter? That future employers might look askance that things you might put there? I hope people who work in higher education are driving that message home, even if they aren’t always practicing [...]

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Fox 16 reports that two bounty hunters from New Orlenas tracked a suspect to an apartment in West Little Rock. A chase and shootout ensued. No injuries before the man was collared, though a car in the Colonnade Shopping Center on Bowman Road apparently was shot up. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

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